Category — Crafts

Here are some ads for Maone bank by advertising agency DCS (out of Porto Alegre, Brazil) and art director Gregory Kickow.

Nice use of texture for these origami pieces.

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If you like making your own cute stuff, then this Hello Kitty mask might suit you. Provided of course that you haven’t already bought one - there’s bound to be something like this for sale in the world of Hello Kitty!

How to Make Your Own Hello Kitty Mask

Via CraftZine

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Cat Morley shares her instructions for how to make this clever fish to sushi plushie on Cut Out + Keep.

Quite cute and relevant transformation..

How To Make a Fish to Sushi Plushie

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Japanese Accessories and Jewellery Maker, Goro’s, just released a few new items for July.

Founded by Goro Takahashi, Goro’s focuses on making top-quality products hand made by skilled craftsman.

The release includes four beige wallets that are all made with saddle leather and each comes with an custom silver pin. The designs are simple but elegant with native American influences.

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This looks like an amicable way to spend an afternoon. You can download the pattern and follow the tutorial to create an origami finger puppet.

Great if you have a kid or two you need to keep busy during these wet UK days…

Make a 3-D Origami Finger Puppet

Via CraftZine

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This Buddha head has been carved out of a load of phone books. Is there something spiritual involved with using all those phone numbers?

Shot at the recent TED conference.

Via MakeZine

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This Origami Lamp is perhaps a nice, crafty sort of project if you need a lamp and love origami.

All you need is a pre-scored 0.8mm sheet of stainless steel (ok - you might need a decent hand tool to pre-score the sheet) and some sort of lamp fixture. Then it is just a matter of bending the segments into an origami design that suits your tastes.

Via Gizmodo

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Instant Origami is the contemporary interpretation of the traditional Japanese paper folding technique - focusing on speed and imagination rather than on the technically brilliant execution.

The goal, to create a representation of an object by folding a single piece of paper without the use of glue, remains unchanged.

I didn’t think too much when I saw this site, assuming it was just another video tutorial of origami-how-tos. But it made me smile and then I thought it was quite clever. Your imagination might need to work a bit harder for ‘the frog’ however!

Instant Origami

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