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Hole punched art

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Gorgeous! ... and likely a future ad campaign for Staples or OfficeMax...

Steven Nicholson is a 2yr student at Plymouth university in the United Kingdom studying Graphic communications with typography. And apparently he is a genius with a hole punch? Check out this self portrait using 10 different sized single hole punches on a a1 piece of paper that he just sent over.

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Posted by: Dan on November 7, 2009 at 12:20 AM

Somebody buy that man a laser cutter!

Well perhaps a conical drill bit will do.

There seems to be a perverse trend of late to labour by hand over tasks that can now be done with CNC type gear.

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Posted by: Andy L on November 7, 2009 at 12:10 PM

I'm not sure if you've noticed, but Laser cutters are not really cheap.

... Neither is the place to put them.

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Posted by: Vel on November 9, 2009 at 12:35 PM

Rasterbator.

Do this at home! Send any pic through this:
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/wizard.gas?Phase=1

Then get out the craft knife, hole punches, cnc mill, shotgun...

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