Could you print me out bowl of spaghetti bolognaise for lunch?

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 18 February, 2010 to the technology subset

Cornucopia, a microwave like device – using technology similar to a 3-D printer – may one day do away with the need to cook meals… by instead literally “printing out” plates of food.
The early concept for Cornucopia is a machine that looks like a microwave, but with canisters of ingredients on top and [...]

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Benja Harney Sydney based paper engineer and artist

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 3 February, 2010 to the design and art subset

I’ve seen the work of a few artists who craft sheets of paper into amazing artworks, and the paper creations of Sydney based paper engineer Benja Harney are just as incredible.
Paper is such a humble medium to work with. It inspires and challenges me every time I sit down at my cutting mat.

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To boldly go where no origami artist has gone before

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 28 January, 2010 to the design and art subset

Won Park’s incredible collection of well known objects, such as vessels from Star Trek and Star Wars, pretty much made exclusively from dollar notes.

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What would happen to papercut art in a paperless society?

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 13 January, 2010 to the design and art subset

Check out the large scale papercut installations of Peter Callesen.

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Convicted on hundreds of shreds of evidence

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 3 August, 2009 to the technology subset

In the same way a lot of data thought to be deleted from a computer hard drive can be restored, so to can paper documents that have been shredded, so long as they have been shredded in a certain way:
In a typical reconstruction process, technicians feed all the available shreds into a scanner. An automated [...]

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Forget paperless offices, entire cities are made of paper

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 22 June, 2009 to the design and art subset

Paper architect Ingrid Siliakus crafts sometimes very intricate and detailed objects, usually buildings, from a single sheet of paper.
Drawing paper architecture designs to Ingrid is as building: first one layer, with a single shape, will be drawn and than layer after layer are added. To design a pattern from scratch, the artist needs the skills [...]

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A zoo created entirely by way of origami

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 13 May, 2009 to the design and art subset

The incredible origami creations of Roman Diaz.

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Creative accounting: ledger created artwork by Jill Sylvia

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 24 April, 2009 to the design and art subset

The amazing ledger paper creations of Jill Sylvia… who says working with ledger books has to be uninspiring?

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Use paper to make typography, not print it on…

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 10 April, 2009 to the design and art subset

The beautiful paper made typography of Yulia Brodskaya.

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First wedding anniversary gift… paper water bottles?

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 8 December, 2008 to the design and art subset

Not sure if this idea will catch on… water bottles made out of paper.
Nice design though, I wonder if a certain MP3 and video player had any influence in this regard?

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