If you’ve wanted to learn origami but never got around to checking out any library books on the topic, the massive collection of origami tutorials at Origami Club can help get you started.
You spent good money on that huge library of VHS tapes, but now DVDs are where it’s at. If you decide to get rid of the tapes, hang on to their boxes and repurpose them to make these wicked spiral notebooks.
Not a fan of paper clips? Wish your stapler had an infinite supply of staples? The Paper Fix is a stapler-substitute that binds paper together using just the paper itself.
A few years back we pointed you toward the world’s “best” paper airplane, and while we couldn’t entirely back up the “best” claim, this Sky King paper aeroplane is a legitimate world-record holder. This video shows us how to make it ourselves.
Reader Gavan writes in with an interesting tip for using your printer to quickly count documents that might come in handy next time you volunteer to hand out fliers.
If you’re a fan of papercraft and looking for a novel way to gift a CD or DVD, this DIY pop-up case is tough to beat. Chung Da Lam—a design student with with a passion for papercraft—has a variety of interesting papercraft tricks on his site, including this clever guide for turning a piece of paper into a folding beak that lifts your disc straight up when you open the case. Although the audio isn’t the highest quality the following video provides a great visual demonstration of the case in action:
Since we posted about Cubees earlier this month, I’ve become mildly addicted to building these block-shaped paper characters. If you’re looking for a quirky extra.gift for your special someone on Valentine’s Day, try out the site’s 2009 project, The Love Machine. But do it properly — Cubees work much better on stiff card than plain old office paper. Cubeecraft
Cubeecraft has dozens of Cubees, or block-shaped characters made from folded paper, modeled after pop culture icons as old as the 1960s-era Batman, and as recent as President Barack Obama. Armed with a printer, some paper (the heavier the better), and one of the many templates at Cubeecraft, you can fold icons from nearly any genre. Politics, obscure cartoons, comic book characters, television stars and more have all been carefully modeled in cubic 3D glory. Finally you’ll be able to craft that diorama depicting how the rebels could have held the ice planet Hoth—if only they’d enlisted Earthworm Jim. The templates are all in .JPG format, which lends itself to easy tinkering in Photoshop if you’re up for it—I turned the Cubee of Dwight from The Office into my boss, for example, with a quick face transplant. Cubeecraft [via Glimmer]
