Lucas Simões creates very dramatic and three-dimensional works created from portraits. He crafts a pattern and cuts away pieces from each photograph and then stacks them on top of one another to get a geometric topographic effect.
Feeling like trees had lost their identity somewhere along the way to being paper, Tale Co., Ltd., decided to bring back the look of trees since paper, is in fact, made from trees. Their Woodpecker notebooks come in five tree versions and feature textured bark covers that have a wooden texture you can feel. The pages have the grain and knots of that particular tree species.
There are always plenty of reasons to say thank you and now you can do it in a less Hallmarky kind of way. Here are 30 (yes 30!) of my favorite modern thank you cards:
The Retro Dot letterpress card from Night Owl Paper Goods brings one of my favorite color combinations together: turquoise and red. The eco-friendly card is printed on 100% cotton paper made from the textile industry’s recovered fibers.
When it comes to fashion, Design Milk looks for products that combine high tech sensibilities with a modern aesthetic. This round-up encompasses the most cutting edge style-related items of the year, including watches made from paper and wood, a pair of shoes not quite made for walking, and of course, laptop accessories. If you’ve got it, flaunt it, we say.
WeWood Wood Watches
These natural wood timepieces are not just sustainable, they’re celebrity magnets. Rhianna, Ke$ha, and APL of the Black Eyed Peas all own one.
NewspaperWood by Vij5 and Mieke Meijer flips the idea of materials on its head. Instead of using wood as a source to make paper, NewspaperWood uses the paper to make wood! The design was Meijer’s project at the Design Academy Eindhoven, who decided it was time to create something useful from old newspapers that no one wanted.
Symbiosis II (Log-Fi) are speakers cast from tree logs by Stanley Ruiz in collaboration with Wataru Sakuma of Masaeco. Made of 100% paper pulp, they were developed as an extension of the original Symbiosis speakers presented a the Sounds Like exhibition (2010) curated by Joey Roth.
Gift Couture is a new company specializing in creative gift wrapping – smart! Their concept is to develop custom wrapping paper through original photography and design, including the creation of coordinating sets like the cheeseburger above. You can pre-order the cheeseburger paper on Kickstarter through a donation.
Oh to be a kid again! How much fun would it be to spell out messages on these Alphabetti Spaghetti placemats?
p.s. milk carton spotting!
Extremely colorful and foldable, the cover of German design magazine Novum was inspired by Richard Buckminster Fuller. Created by Hamburg-based agency Paperlux, the geometric cover allows readers to bend and fold the cover any way that they wish. More then 1,000 triangles were die-cut into the surface of the paper – more than 140 die cuts per cover.
Papernomad is a new company based in Vienna, Austria whose mission is to create items replacing traditional materials with paper. Their first product is an iPad case made of a special paper formulation that is tear- and water-resistant and flame retardant. The great things about these cases is that since they’re made of paper, they’re completely customizable – write, draw, or create whatever you want on the surface
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