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November 6, 2009

Hole punched art

Images Holepunched
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.

November 5, 2009

The intersection of arts and science: Between the Folds

For folks interested in the intersection of arts and science, the PBS series Independent Lens is presenting a fascinating in-depth look into origami titled Between the Folds. The film documents "a determined group of theoretical scientists and fine artists who have abandoned their careers and scoffed at their graduate degrees to forge new lives as modern-day paper folders."

Featured in the film are MIT's youngest-ever tenured professor Dr. Erik Demaine; mathematician, sculptor, puzzle maker, and self-taught computer scientist Marty Demaine; master free-style folder Vincent Floderer; pioneering Israeli educator Miri Golan; mathematics professor Dr. Tom Hull; trained artist and instructor Paul Jackson; one of the most technically accomplished folders in the world, Eric Joisel; one of only a few handmade origami papermakers in the world, Michael LaFosse; origami "hyper-realist" and physicist Dr. Robert J. Lang (who was profiled in CRAFT Volume 05); material artist with a masterful understanding of patterns and geometry, Chris K. Palmer; and the father of modern origami, Akira Yoshizawa.

Screenings are part of the Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Community Cinema series, which are free, followed by discussion panels and access to resources.

Between the Folds will be showing in the Bay Area in Oakland on Tuesday, November 17 at 6:00 p.m. at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center and in San Francisco on Wednesday, November 18 at 5:45 p.m. at the San Francisco Main Library. For a list of screenings taking place across the country, check out the film site.

Here are a couple of interesting excerpts from the documentary to get a flavor for it. The following clip features Paul Jackson, an origami artists and art teacher living in Tel Aviv, Israel, speaking of the "one fold":

And this clip shows Michael LaFosse, a master artisan who not only makes origami, but is one of the only handmade origami paper makers in the world, providing a window into his workshop and processes:

November 3, 2009

Notebook based on "Jacob's Ladder" principle

You kind of have to see this thing move to get the point. The brand name is RevolveR and, apart from novelty, the "floating spine" binding seems to serve no particular function. Still, it's pretty delightful, and seems to operate on the same principle as the toy commonly known as a "Jacob's Ladder" (Wikipedia). [via Boing Boing]

November 2, 2009

Big Head Mode papercraft costume

Eric Testroete, a 3D character artist from Vancouver, sent us this awesome self-portrait costume, an homage to Big Head Mode in videogames.

Papercraft Self Portrait - 2009
Eric's Flickr set

October 27, 2009

Meticulously cut paper maps of NYC

From Etsy seller studiokmo:

four paper panels, each panel measures approximately three feet by four feet (overall dimensions, six feet in width x 8 feet in height) and exposes city blocks of brooklyn, manhattan, queens, and the bronx. the panels fit together like panes of a window and all four pieces must be sold as a set. image one would located in the lower left pane. image two located in the upper left pane. image three in the upper right pane and image four in the lower right pane. image five shows the delicacy of the pieces.

[via Dude Craft]

October 24, 2009

Muybridge Zoetrope papercraft

Grant Thomas, of Making Visual Narratives, pointed us to this free, printable papercraft Zoetrope, featuring the famous motion photos of Eadweard Muybridge.

Free Printable Papercraft Eadweard Muybridge Zoetrope

More:
Laser cut & animated Muybridge horses
Grotesque Menagerie

October 19, 2009

Emperor's Castle amazing papercraft

Geoff at BLDGBLOG writes:

For his student thesis project at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Thomas Hillier produced an immersive narrative world, complete with origami-filled hand-cut book pages and an elaborate model of the story's architectural landscape. Hillier's project was called The Emperor's Castle and it was inspired by the work of Japanese printmaker Hiroshige.

I'm blown away by the intricacy of these models. Hillier's complexity and layering reminds me of the work of Sarah Sze.

October 15, 2009

NYC Papercraft show

Slash: Paper Under the Knife (warning: autoplay video) is the NYC Museum of Arts and Design's third major exhibition, and if it's anywhere near the quality of Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting or Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, it should be fantastic. MAKE favorite Brian Dettmer is involved, as well as many many other incredible paper artists.

Slash: Paper Under the Knife takes the pulse of the international art world's renewed interest in paper as a creative medium and source of artistic inspiration, examining the remarkably diverse use of paper in a range of art forms. Slash is the third exhibition in MAD's Materials and Process series, which examines the renaissance of traditional handcraft materials and techniques in contemporary art and design. The exhibition surveys unusual paper treatments, including works that are burned, torn, cut by lasers, and shredded. A section of the exhibition will focus on artists who modify books to transform them into sculpture, while another will highlight the use of cut paper for film and video animations.

Selected artists will be commissioned to create site-specific or site-referential works, and others will be invited to create work onsite in MAD's three artist studios that will subsequently be installed in the exhibition.

Slash: Paper Under the Knife

October 7, 2009 - April 4, 2010

Museum of Arts and Design

2 Columbus Circle NYC

October 11, 2009

It's construction paper

Tom Friedman Untitled 2000 construction paper.jpg

Tom Friedman Untitled 2000 construction paper 2.jpg

"Self portrait in a state of fragmentation," is not, in fact, the title of this amazing work by American everyday-object sculptor Tom Friedman. Formally, it's "Untitled." Anyone care to guess what it recently sold for?

September 30, 2009

How-To: Make a Proponomicon

There are two tutorials here describing the construction of a Raimi-style Necronomicon prop. The original, by Instructables user onespartan, is pictured uppermost, and a derivative work by Raolin, is pictured at bottom. Nice work, both of you!

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

September 28, 2009

Notepod prototyping notepad

If you're designing a user interface for an iPhone app the appropriately named NotePod seems like it would be perfect for knocking out a quick sketch. The full-scale die-cut 100pp pad features rounded corners and the familiar minimalist iPhone interface.

[via swiss-miss]

September 18, 2009

Amazing paper machines

Danish artist Ea Borre created these incredible machines out of paper, cardboard, some Meccano bits, and some junked DC motors.

Ea Borre

September 16, 2009

Vrogy's Halo 3 marine armor

Meet Michael Vroegop, aka "Vrogy." He made this set of Halo 3 marine armor for the last Dragoncon. His site doesn't include a lot of details about his process, but I'm pretty sure he starts with digital 3D models, converts them using Pepakura, has them CNC cut, and then folds them up for use either as direct parts or as molds. Vrogy, if you see this, you might take a sec to fill us in down in the comments about how it's done. Also, please consider this a gilded invitation to submit a project to our 2009 Make: Halloween Contest.

September 14, 2009

Print and fold iPhone dock

Rachel at CRAFT posted up this nifty print-and-fold iPhone dock, easy and functional!

September 9, 2009

Book of Space

Johan Hybschmann made this amazing work in paper:

One of Johan's student projects, in particular, continues to astound me. What you're looking at in the images reproduced here (alongside Johan's answers to a series of questions I had posed over email) are painstakingly precise laser-cuts made into the pages of a blank sketchbook. As the book is opened and its pages begin to turn, these cuts work together to form a spatial representation of the single, highly choreographed 90-minute shot that is Alexander Sokurov's film Russian Ark. The book's "content" is thus a three-dimensional, perspectivally accurate space.

Find out more on BLDGBLOG. (Thanks, Tatia!)

August 28, 2009

Thermochromic Moleskine

The Moleskine version of my Thermochromic Maker's Notebook was recently exhibited in Hong Kong at the headquarters of Moleskine Asia. Apparently they think Texas is part of Mexico. Oh well.

Papercraft keyboard cat - to the beat!

Everybody give it up for Papercraft Keyboard Cat! Wooh-ooOOh!

Bonus awesome points to those who keep dancing throughout the assembly process. Grab the pattern over TubbyPaws blog. [via Kitsune Noir]

August 26, 2009

Robots don't know comics ...

Robots don't know zines ... Or do they? We're in the midst of celebrating robots this month, with our new issue of MAKE magazine featuring DIY drones, rovers, and bots of all kinds. So imagine our delight when we saw Doctor Popular's robot zine at last weekend's San Francisco Zine Fest.

The graphic zine is actually a 24-page comic book, with each page drawn by a different artist, all in 24 consecutive hours. Doc Pop was even nice enough to sign a copy and then gift it to the office. Thanks much, Doctor Popular!

In MAKE, Volume 19: Robots, Rovers, and Drones, learn how to make a model plane with an autopilot and a built-in robot brain. We'll also show you how to make a comfortable chair and footstool out of a single sheet of plywood, a bicyclist's vest that shows how fast you're going, and projects that introduce you to servomotors. All this, and plenty more, in MAKE, Volume 19! Subscribe to MAKE, or log in to check out the Digital Edition.

August 21, 2009

How-To: Make an origami X-wing

Michelle Osmond has posted a thorough step-by-step for this tiny paper Blue Leader by Alex Crosse.

August 20, 2009

Make a cardboard dragon

I love this elaborate cardboard dragon posted by Creativeman on Instructables. In fact, upon further inspection you'll see that he's got about 11 cardboard projects uploaded to the DIY site. Fun stuff!