today and tomorrow

“Paper Surgery” by Stephen Shanabrook & Veronika Georgieva.

Karen Sargsyan makes very impressive paper sculptures.

found at BOOOOOOOM!

I really like these Face of the City pieces by Dan Bergeron.

found at designboom weblog

Daniel Gordon photographs his very strange 3d collages. Believe me, these aren’t even his weirdest.

found at I heart photograph

“Trophy of logic” and “Es widerspricht jeglicher mit anerzogenen logik dass, das N auf das M folgt” by David Renggli.

The Japanese retail brand MUJI and LEGO teamed up to develop a set of 4 different boxes. Inside those boxes you’ll find the classic LEGO bricks but also a few sheets of paper. No big deal. But when you also have the right punch hole tool, you can combine both to create something new. I really like this concept. You can order a set here (when you speak sone Japanese).

found at hypebeast

This Papercraft Self Portrait was Eric Testroete his Halloween costume last weekend. Eric is a 3D artist in the Vancouver game industryand he was inspired by the big-head mode seen in videogames. It was probably quite fun for him to do an offscreen project with his 3D skills. You can find more photos in this Flickr set.

found at Make Blog

Gina Dawson made these tiny funeral Wreaths, the text on the banners comes from personal rejection letters.

found at Bold on Grey

Thomas Demand is a German photographer who builds 3D paper scenes based on found images. He then photographs those models and destroys them afterwards. You can go and see more of his work at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin till Januar 17th 2010.

found via we make money not art

Electronic Popables is a project by Jie Qi, a mechanical engineering student at Columbia University. But last summer she spend researching with Dr. Leah Buechley as part of the High-Low Tech group in the MIT Media Lab and there she did this project. You could describe it as a classic paper pop-up book filled with electronic components. The LED’s and other elements are connected to arduino based boards through conductive ink. So when something moves, the circuit closes and something happens. But this videos shows will make everything clear.

In this next video, Hannah Perner-Wilson shows you how she made a paper piano.

Another project by Jie Qi are these paper flowers. She built-in some memory wires in the paper flowers connected them to a strong battery. Those wires let the flowers move, just like they would bloom.

found @zachlieberman