Jar of Geometric Shapes: Perfect Papercraft from Present & Correct
Present & Correct is one of my favorite online shops– based in the UK, they are famous for their limited runs of vintage, graphic stationery, some of which is sourced from all over the world, and some of which are designed in-house. Mark, who is one half of the Present & Correct team, created these...
100 Life-Size Cardboard Monkeys and More: Enormous Cardboard Sculptures
Brooklyn born artist James Grashow works with the simplest medium of corrugated cardboard to create enormous sculptures and installations that are incredibly playful. The sheer size of his work is staggering to begin with: a hundred life-size monkeys swoop down to play, Neptune rises majestically out of the sea surrounded by his coterie, and a...
Geode Street Art: Creating Crystalline Shapes Out of Paper
Imagine seeing a brief glimmer of light as you round a random corner in L.A. As you lean down to get a better look, you realize that there are sharp, crystalline shapes that appear to be growing organically out of your neighborhood’s pipes and bricks. This is the ingenious Geode Street Art project by artist...
Mind-Bending Single Sheet Origami
Japanese artist Yukio Nishimura creates all of these sculptural pieces with a single sheet of creamy white paper– the mind bending origami is comprised of thousands of folds that make beautiful patterns of light and shadow. The medium could not be any simpler, but he has imagined incredible variations for each pattern. There’s something so...
Paper Thin Air Vases That Transform
I’ve posted some work from Torafu Architects before, but their new series of Air Vases is fascinating– by slicing up printed circles in precise lines, they’ve created paper-thin vases that can be folded flat. The vases are purely decorative, obviously, but its interesting to note that they can be molded to form different shapes and...
Incredible, Intricate, Glowing Paper Castle
Wataru Itou (伊藤航) is a Japanese student in a Tokyo art university with an amazing piece of work: this paper castle, titled “Umi no Ue no Oshiro” (A Castle On the Ocean) took four years to complete, and the level of intricacy in the structure makes it a true masterpiece. There are so many layers...
Geometric Garland: Beautifully Folded Paper Decor
Mini Eco is an UK mommy blog with a penchant for featuring colorful DIY tutorials, and one of the recent projects on there cleverly used platonic solids to make a decorative garland. The geometric shapes are lovely to look at in their symmetry, and she even includes the templates to each object so that you...
“Discovery Ignites The Passion To Create”: 3D Type in Corrugated Cardboard
Farah Tamachi’s senior thesis is a six-foot-tall wall installation filled with rich flourishes and generously luscious type– all crafted in the humble medium of corrugated cardboard. The 3D type protrudes crisply from the wall, bearing the words, “Discovery ignites the passion to create.” This elegant execution of 3D type in script is what sets it...
Loves Doves: A Flurry of Breathtaking & Elaborately Quilled Papercraft
Yulia Brodskaya has been wowing the internet with her stunning papercraft for a while now, but her most recent art pieces bring her medium of choice (quilling) to a new level of craftsmanship. Quilling is an art formed by long strips of paper that have been rolled and shaped to create images from the edges...
Crisp & Geometric 3D Type With An Uplifting Message: “Words Can Fly A Thousand Miles”
This awe-inspiring 3D poster is completely made out of paper, and it bears a single line of hope as it’s name: “Words Can Fly A Thousand Miles.” Made by artists Kyosuke Nishida, Brian Li, and Dominic Liu, the poster is a reminder of the aftermath of the earthquake in Japan this past year, when messages,...
Cheeseburger Wrapping Paper
Gift Couture is a potential project on Kickstarter that needs funding to start up their wrapping paper company, and their initial (demo?) creation has peaked the interest of the interwebz. After all, the internet has never been one to decline a cheeseburger, and their first set of wrapping paper features 5 designs that you can...
Little Printer: Publish Your Personalized Mini-Newspaper From Your Smartphone
All the design blogs are abuzz about this diminutive and adorable box called the Little Printer: its a tiny, compact thermal printer that connects wireless to your smartphone, so you can publish customized mini-newsletters. Better yet, while its aggregating all of the data you want, the Little Printer uses its design algorithms to lay out...
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