The fate of single use table ware, paper plates and cups, is predictable. They go in the garbage, sometimes if we’re lucky, they’re recycled or composted. But what if we replaced the paper made from wood pulp with rapidly grown bamboo and reed, along with bagasse—waste left over after extracting juice from sugar cane, and normally burnt—you’d get something that looks a little different. Especially if you give the whole idea some thought.
Artist Kevin LCK produced a series of sculptures called “Ordinary Behavior,” featuring amazingly detailed papercraft dioramas that examine our everyday relationships with electronics.
rtist Vincent Tomczyk creates extremely realistic looking sculptures, which are primarily made of paper, to express the biographical histories of various objects.
Artist Pat Shannon creates sculptures from newspapers by cutting away everything but the images to produce a miniature landscape.
Inspired by the honeycomb-cut paper decorations popular in Chinese festivities, Beijing-based artist Li Hongbo uses the same technique to create otherworldly sculptures that look like they’re made of plaster when resting, but have the ability to accordion out to bizarre proportions. A book editor and designer, he’s had a love affair with paper for years […]
Artist Jeremiah Johnson made a poignant series of sculptures of houses from his neighborhood from unopened credit card applications called, “Dream Homes.”
Ireland’s Mcor Technologies, whose paper-based 3D printing process we wrote about just last Monday, has entered into a deal with Staples’ Printing Systems Division to launch a new 3D printing service called “Staples Easy 3D,” online via the Staples Office Centre. The service will be offered starting in early 2013 in the Netherlands and Belgium only, with plans…
