Tag: Paper

  • pothi book fanned out, page made from watercolor paper with earth tone color swatches on it

    Intro to Sewn Book Binding Part 1: Pothi Books

    Book binding is an easy entry to making. And while there are specialized book binding materials, this lesson doesn’t require any of them. In fact, if you wanted, you could pick up a pad of drawing paper and yarn at a dollar store, spending only a couple of bucks on enough materials to make a…

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  • white models on a white background, from left to right: speaker, drawer pull, speaker, lamp, chess piece, speaker, door handle

    The Cai Modeling Materials, MDes Thesis pt. 1

    For my industrial design masters thesis at the University of Illinois at Chicago, I developed plastic-free modeling materials. Cai Board can serve as a replacement for extruded polystyrene foam. Cai Clay is an air-drying clay that is an alternative to plastic-based clays.

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  • gif of a paper chandelier as the camera zooms in from showing the whole chandelier to going up the chandelier to show the geometric interior, the chandelier is faceted and vaguely flower-like

    Paper House

    If we cannot raise manufacturing costs to ensure quality home goods and we cannot teach millions of people to suddenly take care of what they have, what if we instead filled our homes with paper? Unlike in the past, when families would live together their whole lives or gift newlyweds with heritage furniture, many people…

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  • Gif of Mari standing then kneeling with a fist pumping into the air in front of her panels

    A Haptic Blank

    With the texture of water as inspiration, I created acoustic panels that not only absorb sound, but play sound when touched. 

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