Giant Papercraft Gundam
This Freedom Gundam is made of 175 pages of printer paper comprising 500 parts. The finished sculpture is four feet tall and comes complete with a process video. [via Kotaku]
Paper Crafts
Origami, letterpress, linocuts, laser-cuts, pepakura, pop-ups, flip-books, silhouettes, maché, and more.
Recycled Paper Press in the Maker Shed
Making your own art paper is fun to do on the patio in summertime. Maker Shed carries the Recycled Paper Press Experiment Kit to get you started: Recycle your scrap paper, old newspapers, and tissue paper into beautiful hand-crafted paper. Start with a slurry of paper pulp, drain it in the sieve tray, then press […]
Downloadable Kids’ Dart Gun Targets
Diane Gilleland recently turned me on to the blog What I Made from Scott Bedford in London. Scott’s illustrations and projects are fun and charming and clever, and I’m really enjoying going through his archives and look forward to seeing more from him. This fun set of kids’ dart gun targets are available for download […]
Skateboard Paper Cut Animation
Tilles Singer made this skateboard animation with “a ton of digital photos, a ton of real life magazines, an hour of recording music.” Skaters do tricks off of books and papercraft landscapes. [via @fi5e]
Programmable Origami Folds Itself
Adam @ Make: Online posted up this incredible video of a self-folding surface developed by researchers at Harvard and MIT. Its tiny foil actuators expand or contract upon receiving electrical current, which bends the sheet into the desired shape. The magnets help lock in shapes when the planes get close enough.
Paint Chip Advertisements
Jessica of How About Orange points us to these amazing paint chip art pieces created by Matthew Sporzynski (of Real Simple paper sculpture fame) for Sherwin Williams. I wonder if these are too awesome–Sherwin Williams might end up with a massive paint chip shortage as everybody rushes out and attempts their own creations. And by […]
How-To: Miniature Paper “Pottery” Pieces
Anne Martin of All Things Paper points us to the amazing miniatures work of Kris Compas from 1 Inch Minis. Kris creates all kinds of tiny, delicate doll house details and often works in paper. Her intricate paper basket tutorial is fascinating, and she even used quilling paper to create a decorative shelf in one […]
