David Carter is the author of many silly pop-up books for kids – he also wrote The Elements of Pop-ups, a book about the construction and mechanics of pop-ups. He’s put together a page of movies and PDF dies showing how to make your own pop-ups.
Rag and Bone points us to the amazingly complex papercuts of B̩atrice Coron. In addition to paper, she uses Tyvek, aluminum, and stainless steel. More: HOW TO РMake Paper Cuts with Skinny laMinx
I just found this great tutorial on image transfer – they cover lots of different transfer mediums for use on wood, paper, fabric, and glass. Xylene is a really toxic chemical, I’d stay away from it – the other mediums are pretty benign. I never knew you could use caulk! An image transfer is, to […]
Papercraft Paradise has links to a couple really neat paper models. Konicaminolta has a wonderful fiddler crab model. There are 2 PDFs – one has the parts, the other has instructions. And Kirin has a cute polar bear papercraft with a wobbly head; also has 2 pdfs. (you have to click through a couple times […]
Our pals at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories celebrated the two year anniversary of their site on Saturday and we missed it! Hope they saved us some fractal cookies or fabbed candy. It’s hard to believe the site’s only be around for two years. They’ve done so many amazing, memetically viral, projects, what with the Joule […]
Billybob884 was at school, missing his dog back home, so he decided to make an uncanny paper replica of Stoney. Here’s a PDF of the pieces. Via
I really like these colorful Japanese paper robot models. If you click on the underlined text next to the images on the site, you’ll see larger images and (with more clicking!) get to downloadable PDFs. These would go great with a gift subscription to Make! Paper Robots
