Clean Covers

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book cover, craft, paper

Its a new year and if you’re anything like me, you may have de-clutter, re-organize, and simplify on your list of to-do’s for 2013. Here’s one way you can integrate your addictive crafty skills and clean up the area you love most…your bookshelf. (via remodelista)

go all out and customize with fabric sewn on labels

Simple handwritten labels give a nice personal touch (via design sponge)

wax paper isn’t for baking only! (Wax Paper Book Covers)

mix & match with paper and linens

Make a statement and go gold!

Paper meal? When it looks this good, why not?

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paper, thanksgiving, window display

Its that time of the year again where we are all faced with looking forward to our Thanksgiving feasts but not to our extended waistlines! Just saw Anthropologie’s window display in the Chelsea Market with their paper version of the quintessential Thanksgiving dinner. That’s one way to look at things.

Make Some Noise

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design, industrial design, mp3, paper, recycle, technology

Balance Design Studio has released Pulpop–a recycled paper pulp speaker for your MP3. Using vibration speaker technology, this doughnut shaped speaker is not only good to the earth, but also to your ears. (via The Designer Pad)

Pop-Ups + Paper = Comic Book

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animation, comic books, paper, pop-ups

My friend over at Pepper Press forwarded me this posting on Mengyu Chen’s current teaser for her new comic book. Just think, an entire book of pop-ups and super hero stories?!?! Beats 3-D movies in a heartbeat! (via Colossal)

Paper Passion

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book lovers, fragrance, Package Design, paper, perfumer, print

Master perfumer Geza Schoen, Gerhard Steidl and Wallpaper• magazine have joined forces with Karl Lagerfeld to create the ultimate scent for us print lovers, Paper Passion. The fragrance pays homage to the scent of freshly printed books and is accompanied by a well thought out package design. You can’t go wrong here!

Portraits

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collage, mix media, paper, portraits

Stumbled upon these mix media collage artist Erika Iris and thought a lot of you would appreciate some of her work. Her prints are affordable and would be a great gift for those music/film lovers out there. Mother’s Day perhaps?  (via Colossal)

Shout out to Paper

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animation, illustration, mohawk, paper, pentagram, video

Pentagram worked with CEO Tom O’Connor of Mohawk to create a sweet animated video. Love the video, but even more, love their paper. Couldn’t resist sharing the love.

Good as Gold

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confettisystem, design, gold, ny times, paper, paper art, pinata

Creative duo, Nicholas Andersen and Julia Ho of CONFETTISYSTEM, have created yet another amazing transformation of their take on paper art. This time around, they present the “Gold Fringed Wall” made of thousands of hand-cut gold strips, creating the “T” for the March 18th issue of  NY Times T Magazine. You can also check out their full line of products sold online here.

 

 

Time Heels

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animation, collage, multi-media, music, music video, paper

For you paper/music lovers out there, here’s a video that my friend at Peach Farm Studio shared a couple weeks ago! A great tune and Bhi Bhiman‘s debut album, BHIMAN. Hope you like it!

Origami Accessories

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accessories, airplanes, etsy, gifts, origami, paper, paper cranes, sailboat

Seams like there’s something about origami this season! Here’s another way to bring in the idea of paper making into your life. Walter Chen of Monte Azul Estudio has created these precious handmade sterling silver casted earrings, rings and pendants in the form of traditional paper cranes, paper airplanes or sailboats you can buy from here.