Recently, PSFK paid a visit to Evisu’s studio in Soho to see how their new CEO and Creative Director Scott Morrison was settling into the masthead.

New Scientist has published a thought-provoking article which explores the fragile nature of the materials and devices we entrust with storing our data.

What do our faces say about who we are?

What do our faces say about who we are?

Lee Crutchley’s Quoteskine website features hand-drawn typography.

Lee Crutchley’s Quoteskine website features hand-drawn typography.

I recently presented at the Future Trends conference in Miami. My presentation was called ‘Good Ideas in 2010′ and it is the first part of a project to deliver a book later this month with the same title.

I recently presented at the Future Trends conference in Miami. My presentation was called ‘Good Ideas in 2010′ and it is the first part of a project to deliver a book later this month with the same title.

At this year’s 100% Design Event, designer Yu Jordy Fu created ‘cloud walk’, a nine-meter-long white recycled paper chandelier inspired by ancient Chinese paper cutting techniques.

Yuken Teruya strikes a balance between consumerism and environmental consciousness with his latest exhibition of paper bags. Using only the material provided by the bag, he carefully cuts out delicate, miniature trees and places them inside the bags.
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This papercraft castle complete with functioning lights and a train system, was created over 4 years by Wataru Itou, an art student in Tokyo.

Hoping to do something about the less than 0.05% of milk and juice cartons in the US that ever end up recycled, Portland industrial designer John Schreiber created Milkmuny, producing highly-functional wallets from the familiar paper cartons we regularly discard. Milkmuny pays local groups seeking to raise funds for the cartons they collect, and after washing them, create wonderful multi-pocketed wallets through an intricate folding process—$10 each, with a 45 day warranty and a percentage of sales donated to environmental groups. Schreiber explains that
“I wanted to challenge traditional design thinking and create a mass produced product that didn’t expend more [...]

Whitelines Notebooks uses a very simple, intuitive design idea: the only thing that should stand out on a page is what you write. The company’s designers realize that lined and graphed paper helps ensure steady writing and legibility, but counter that these guides should never compete with one’s note taking. Instead of dark lines, Whitelines use, shockingly, white lines, traced over a very light gray paper. The overlay is perfectly contrasted, offering a balance of visibility and subtly. Whitelines also strives to keep the carbon footprint associated with their notebooks’ fabrication as close to zero as possible; they trap and [...]

Wurlington Brothers Press have an interesting line of postcards that can be transformed into scale models of different New York City landmarks. The 4-5/8″ x 6-3/4″, legally mailable cards each include all pieces and instructions needed to make one model. The “Build Your Own New York” series has tiny paper versions of New York’s most famous buildings, monuments and trains. There is also a Chicago version.
Build Your Own New York