Make Your Own Moleskine-Like-Notebook Michael Shannon’s great guide on making your own Moleskine style notebook. great plan for customizing! (tags: DIY moleskine craft papercraft guide bookbinding make maker)

Hideaki Azuma pointed out quite a few updates to his original leaf fold design, mentioned here a few weeks back. On his further explorations of this concept, he runs through a large number of variations on paper size, shape, fold angles, folding patterns, and more. Some of them are really just fascinating structures. This one reminds me of Melisande’s variant of his original leaf fold. He progresses through a number of diffferent leaf shapes, and then starts going into some heavily twisted topology, like these ones (my favorites): These twisted shapes remind me a lot of Philip Chapman-Bell‘s (aka Oschene) 3d boxes and jars- I love the way all these things just spring up out of a flat sheet of paper. Much interesting and fertile ideas here. Thank you, Azuma-san!

Transitions Originally uploaded by Owesen. Fredrik Owesen had previously discussed making a 3d mold of one of his tessellations. Now, it appears that he has pulled it off! I’m very interested in learning the details of this process, especially how he so accurately captured the interior spaces. A fantastic concept- I’ve long imagined how wonderful it would be to create tiles based on some 3d tessellations, but I had no idea it would look so striking! Hopefully now that he’s figured out a process, we’ll see more designs like this. How wonderful would it be to make a tiled mosaic tessellation using patterned tiles made up of tessellations? The recursion levels alone would leave my geometry-loving heart pounding. Looking forward to more of this artwork, Fredrik!

Patterned 3d papercraft stars A collection of someone’s wonderful 3d star artwork. Papercraft stars, with 12, 20, and more points, with beautiful patterns on them. Definitely worth taking a peek. (tags: star papercraft 3d paper stars estrela artwork)