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My daughter’s birthday is coming up, and she asked to have a theme: Under the sea. Today, we started on the invitation cards: Not too shabby, don’t you think? At least my daughter liked it. I will post more on the theme once the party is over.
Cubicity
Just made the latest addition to the Cubicity set: A female scientist. This was a custom request by a reader, Trudy, who rightfully felt that women were a bit underrepresented in Cubicity. So, here she is: She has a beaker in her other hand, which makes her both a chemist
Papercraft
Here is a set of educational paper toys: Remember the papercraft alphabet? Ever since I published it, there have been requests to complement it with a set of numbers. I finally got around to designing the numbers. These are not plain and simple numbers, either, but they come with a
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If you are still looking for some quick and easy project for Valentine’s day, here is a compilation of the Valentine projects I have done: The valentine vase is a small papercraft model that is ‘2.5D’, i.e. it’s not really a three-dimensional model, but rectangular planes
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Many of you seemed to really like the shelf-sitting guy I recently posted. Which prompted me to make this couple, just in time for Valentine’s day: It’s actually just as easy as the original model (well, you have to make two of them). Here is the template: * PDF
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I wanted to have a simple, easy to build mascot that I could use in header graphics for Twitter and Google+. It’s a shelf sitting cube guy: This one is really easy to make. Here is the template: Digitprop mascot And here is a blank template, if you want
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Remember the businesscard holders from 2011, the butler and the scientist? Well, as requested by my daughter and the son of a good friend of ours, I had to make two new ones. I hesitate to call them business card holders, as the design makes it a bit unlikely that
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This post is about a design not done by me, but by Kate from minieco.co.uk. I stumbled upon these delightful paper diamonds some time ago, and was amazed by their elegant simplicity. The shape is just perfect, and they make for truly beautiful toys. I built some myself
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Today I want to stray from the usual path of papercrafting and talk about something entirely different: Backup strategies. I was prompted by the recent reports of the Cryptolocker malware to reconsider my own strategy, and I think I came up with quite a nifty scheme for backups. Just as
Papercraft
A lot of people have asked me if I will provide 2014 cards for the stegosaurus calendar. Good news: I finally managed to update the cards. (Den Kalender und die Karten gibt’s auch auf Deutsch, und zwar hier) I have made monthly and weekly cards, so you can choose
Papercraft
Ok, the (admittedly a bit crazy) design of this toy was prompted by my 3 years old son who – not unusual for his gender and age – is somewhat fixated on guns. I am not exactly thrilled by his infatuation with guns, and I certainly don’t want to promote it.
Papercraft
Here is a kind of ‘interactive’ model and actually quite a nice toy: A ‘working’ instant camera made from paper: So, what do I mean by working? Well, you can turn the crank on the right-hand side and the camera will output a picture you have taken. The mechanism is