Papercraft

Kickstarting: A Pinhole Camera Made Of Cardboard

What happens when you mix a pinhole camera with a vintage twin reflex, then craft the whole thing out of stiff paper? We don’t know, but we’d sure like to find out.

Sculptures Of Trash, Made With Paper And Discarded In A Gallery

Sculptures Of Trash, Made With Paper And Discarded In A Gallery

Carly Fischer meticulously re-creates the stuff the rest of us toss aside.

Buy Yourself As An Adorable Paper Doll, For $12

Buy Yourself As An Adorable Paper Doll, For $12

Though if you don’t mind, I’ll be using the term “grizzled action figure” to describe myself.

Using Origami To Mock Up Ingenious Gestural Interfaces

Juan Sanchez finds a novel solution for mocking up subtle design ideas.

Vases That Look Like Graphic Art, Suspended In Mid-Air

Vases That Look Like Graphic Art, Suspended In Mid-Air

Katsumi Hayakawa Carves Sprawling Cityscapes Out Of Paper

Katsumi Hayakawa Carves Sprawling Cityscapes Out Of Paper

The artist’s multilayered works are abstract compositions rather than paper replicas.

An Artist Who Sculpts From Paper, Like Others Might With Clay [Slideshow]

An Artist Who Sculpts From Paper, Like Others Might With Clay [Slideshow]

Artist Matt Shlian is great at screwing up. A self-described papercraft engineer, Shlian designs stunning 3-D paper sculptures that fall somewhere between origami, pop-up books, and Minimal Art -- many of them happy accidents.

Sometimes "I begin with an idea for movement and try to achieve that shape or form somehow," he tells us. "Along the way something usually goes wrong and a mistake becomes more interesting than the original idea and I work with that instead."

Papercraft Sculptures Look Like M.C. Escher in 3-D [Slideshow]

Papercraft Sculptures Look Like M.C. Escher in 3-D [Slideshow]

His website doesn't say much, but "artist-engineer" Elod Beregszaszi is clearly some kind of micro-detailed savant when it comes to papercraft art. His delicate creations -- from simple Christmas ornaments to dizzying multi-layered compositions -- look like they require the precision of a laser and the patience of a saint.

Everything but the Paper Cut: Eye-popping Ways Artists Use Paper

In the year since the Museum of Art and Design reopened in its new digs on Columbus Circle, they've been delivering consistently compelling shows--from punk-rock lace to radical knitting experiments. The newest, "Slash: Paper Under the Knife", opened last weekend and runs through April 4, 2010.

Infographic of the Day

Infographic of the Day: Infographic: The Signature Cocktails Of Your Favorite Fictional Boozehounds

Innovation by Design

The Amazing Judges For Our 2013 Innovation By Design Awards

From the Editor

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