Photo: Le Creative Sweatshop

Le Creative Sweatshop is a French art studio that produces (among other things) enormous papercraft art installations. The high-heeled shoes pictured above are a part of their effort to “make a paper world.” You can view more pictures of the studio’s work at the link.

Link via Gizmodo | Video about their work

Photo: bldgblog

For his thesis project, Thomas Hillier created stunningly detailed papercraft artwork inspired by the woodblock prints of the famous Edo-period Japenese artist Hiroshige. Thomas’ project, called The Emperor’s Castle, is a fantastic combination of illustrations and 3-dimensional paper sculptures that you just have to see for yourself:

The Emperor’s Castle originates from a mythical and ancient tale hidden within a woodblock landscape scene created by Japanese Ukiyo-e printmaker, Ando Hiroshige. This tale charts the story of two star-crossed lovers, the weaving Princess and the Cowherd, who have been separated by the Princess’s father, the Emperor. These characters have been replaced by architectonic metaphors creating an urban theatre within the grounds of the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo.

Link | Flickr set of The Emperor’s Castle – via Make

Master Sword and Pedestal by Xenonray – via Nintendo Papercraft

Whoa! This is awesome: Gajitz blog has a nice compendium of the various papercrafts inspired by the Zelda games. I remember fondly playing Zelda II: The Adventure of Link on my NES oh so many years ago.

Link | More at the excellent blog Nintendo Papercraft (you can lose hours there!)

I’m a big fan of papercraft artist Yumiko Matsui (featured before on Neatorama here) – so it was a pleasant surprise to hear from her about this Neatoramabot papercraft sculpture. Ain’t he cute?

If you haven’t seen Yumiko’s artwork before, you owe it to yourself to check it out: she sculpts fantastic and colorful dioramas as well as miniature characters out of paper. The level of details is simply superb (for example, in her Summer Festival series, check out the Japanese pancake stand)

Best of all, I hear she’s coming to the United States! Here’s Yumiko’s online art gallery: Link

Only the geekiest of papercraft projects made the cut for this excellent list from oobject. Take a look at what happened when geeks get their hands on construction paper:

Whether a novice or a paper-folding master, papercraft is a hobby that anyone can enjoy. It involves printing out a custom schematic with instructions and folding the paper to create a unique work of art. The papercraft you see here keep central with the theme of geekiness and quite possibly, nerdiness.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by vveneziani.

Alida Rosie Sayer combined typography and papercraft to create her wonderful artwork. This one above, a series titled Slaughterhouse Five: Type and Form, is Alida’s way to visualize the cult novel by Kurt Vonnegut, by hanging hundreds of layers of hand cut letterpress prints.

Katerina Biliouri of Yatzer interviewed the artist:

You chose Vonnegut’s novel “Slaughterhouse Five” as the book for your three-dimensional typographic pieces. What lies behind the selection of the specific book?

I read the book a year and a half ago and it really struck a chord with me. I was particularly inspired by the concept of an alien race conceived by the confused mind of the main character who is trying to come to terms with difficult memories. The alien race addressed various issues he felt with his past experiences by not only presenting to him alternative methods of considering time, but also oneself in relation to it, with richly visual descriptions. To me the challenge of “visualising time” this way or trying to communicate visually what it could be like to see the past, present and future all at once was a very exciting prospect.

I decided that by using creative typography and quotes from the book itself, this would ground my work in a recognisable form and allow me to be more experimental without becoming entirely removed from the original subject.

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This stunning castle was created by Japanese art student Wataru Itou. It took four years of dedication to bring to fruition. It is complete with electric lights and a working train. The exhibit is called “A Castle On The Ocean” and is on display in Tokyo.

Link Via BoingBoing

This neatolicious: Dan McPharlin creates what is probably the cutest papercraft set of miniature analog electronic devices, from tape recorder to retro synthesizers. Take a looksee: Link [Flickr Photoset] – via The Terminally Juvenile

Super Punch blog has a neat post about Papershapers, a paper art exhibition as sponsored by Scion Space and curated by Eric Nakamura of Giant Robot.

The art exhibit features the artwork of Shin Tanaka, Polly Verity, Annie Vought, Ryohei Tanaka, Hunter Stabler, Richard Sweeney, Peter Callesen, Brian Dettmer, Ana Serrano, and Mu Pan.

The image to the left is called The Sharp-Beaked Hound of Zeus, a marvelous papercraft by artist Polly Verity.

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This is very cool: Paper Forest blog has a YouTube clip of a spinning papercraft. The original design is by Ramin Razani, as noted by Jeffrey Rutzky in his book Kirigami (more photos here on his Flickr acct).

Link [embedded YouTube clip] – via Make

If you’d like to make your own, here’s a similar template.

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From the Upcoming Queue, submitted by Muppetmaker.

Here’s a papercraft for all of you who have learned to stop worrying and love the New World Order: the Illuminati Pyramid Papercraft, by Paper Replika.

Just be careful where you place the papercraft, because it surely contains printed microcircuitry with hypersensitive cellulosic fiber antenna that will transmit whatever it is you say to Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Link – via Super Punch

This video is truly amazing to watch. City made of books, sounds like my idea of a good hometown.

Link Via Craftzine

Here is an incredible papercraft recreation of Han Solo’s famous ship. The detail is extraordinary and true to the movies. This is a great project for inmates with a science fiction passion or any young man who has no desire to kiss girls in his teen years. If you’ve got the time, put it together and we’ll show it off proudly.

Make your own Millennium Falcon with a printable download from VectorVault. Link -Thanks, Adam!

I was going to call it a night when I decided to check one more link. I’m so glad I did because that’s when I ran across this amazing papercraft artwork by Russian artist Yulia Brodskaya.

Her website is a little bit slow, but it’s worth the wait: Link – via Drawn!

This papercraft turkey is not only cute, but it also would make a great centerpiece. There’s also a cute pilgrim and indian couple to download. Get yours free here.

This fantastic papercraft model of Hellboy’s revolver The Good Samaritan features a working hinge and loadable bullets. It probably takes dozens of hours of tedious cutting and gluing, so why don’t we just gawk appreciatively at the pictures?

Link (in Japanese) – via Geekologie

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	Top 10 Stupid Things Americans Ask Brits British comedian Ricky Gervais wrote a Top 10 list of the stupidest things American asks our cousins across the pond. Here he is on David Letterman: Link
	Ladybug in Ultra Slo-Mo This one is definitely nifty: here's a ladybug captured taking flight on ultra slo-mo. The good stuff starts at about 1:07 (I can't help but think it's mooning us for a while there ...) Link
	Yao Ming's Incredible Shot How cool is the Houston Rockets' center Yao Ming? Here's his behind-the-back (okay, overhead), no-look lucky shot: Link
	When News Reporters Lose It Everyone loses it once in a while, but these reporters got their meltdown moments immortalized on tape! There's even one of Bill O'Reilly losing it! Link (yes, contains bad language) If you like the Bill O'Reilly one, here's the dance remix version (even more bad language!)
	Geared Heart This one is for all you papercraft lovers out there ... Here's the super-duper-most-awesomest papercraft EVAR! It's by Haruki Nakamura of Paper Engineering Kamikara. Link If you like that one, check out the gears cube

For more the web's most interesting videos, check out: VideoSift.

Go here to download some adorable and very simple paper toys of Wolverine, Cyclops, Magneto, and more. And you can find previously posted papercraft projects here.

Eric Wiryanata has posted a bunch of simple papercraft projects, including some adorable dogs and robots.

*Previously: Disaster diorama papercraft.

Yumiko Matsui is a Japanese artist specializing in fantastic dioramas made out of paper. This one is of the Dotonbori Street in Osaka:

Dotonbori is one of Osaka’s main shopping areas and entertainment districts, and is also known as a food destination. It is a popular tourist destination. It is famous for big cheesy neon signs on the street. Those signs become part of the culture of Osaka. Dotonbori street gets busier at night because of the lights.

Check out the gallery here: Link – Thanks Yumiko!

Marco Altini makes Cubeecraft (or also lovingly called "cubees") papercraft based on TV series characters. He has characters from 24, Alias, Dexter, Heroes, and many more TV series for you to download, print, cut, and fold for free.

Link – Thanks Marco!

Forget cutesy papercraft, Spitfuls has just come up with disaster dioramas: a set of paper models you can download and fold to depict the sinking of the Titanic and the burning of the Hindenburg!

Link – via Boing Boing, Thanks Jon Jason!

Papercraft enthusiast “atom” made this kinetic (pushed by hand) sculpture of a Trevithick steam locomotive (Richard Trevithick [wiki] built the world’s first working railway steam locomotive). Atom also has paper model of a wall pendulum clock and other cool stuff.

Link | YouTube Link

Amoeba Boy (who made the awesome steampunk R2-D2) has come up with another neat thing: steampunk X-wing fighter biplane papercraft.

This time, he’s even provided the cutout plan if you want to make your own: Link – Thanks Mark Edwards!

That’s the Yamaha MT-01, a concept power cruiser that got motorcycle enthusiasts atwitter. But take a closer look at the photo above: that’s not a real bike – it’s actually an ultra-realistic paper model of the motorcycle!

And yes, you can download the paper craft data and assembly instruction: Link – via Vector Vault, Thanks Adam!

No, that’s not C-3PO. Rather, that’s a papercraft of K-3PO, the protocol droid stationed at Echo Base’s command center in Hoth.

Link | The plan [PDF] at Blog@Papercraft [in Japanese]

Atom of Glue² chronicle created these awesome papercraft sculptures of characters from Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delight triptych: Link – via Bibi’s Box

Update 1/23/07: The bird with the letter is from Bosch’s Temptation of St. Anthony – Thanks ted!

See also: Hieronymus Bosch Models, previously on Neatorama.