Awesome Paper

Notebooks made from 52 specially-printed playing cards, left blank on one side for writing, then bound together on one edge. The outer cover has the Queen of Hearts and the Ace of Spades.

Countless precisely-cut strips of paper and tiny gears comprise this amazing mechanical marvel – a biped robot assembled entirely from paper, a few wood dowels, and powered by rubber bands.

Artist Jill Sylvia creates incredible models of structures such as the New York Stock Exchange, the U.S. Treasury and the Capital using sheets of financial ledger books with holes cut out of them.

Travis Betz (aka TheReceptionist) tipped us off to his take on the trailer for Prometheus, using nothing but ink, paper, glue and tape. Maybe Hollywood should try this technique instead of 3D.

While most of us will never be able to afford the $2 million+ dollar pricetag of an actual Veyron, we can live vicariously through this intricate paper model you can cut out and build for yourself.

It’s amazing what artist Patrick Gannon is able to accomplish with textured and carved paper. Each work pieces together a beautiful land filled with the creatures of his fantastic imagination.

While we learned from the Mythbusters that folding paper more than seven times isn’t impossible, but extremely difficult. But if you could fold it 45 times, guess what would happen?

Make your to-do lists more specific – or at least more eye-catching – with Poketo’s Pie Graph sticky notes. Use them to divide tasks, offer different choices or doodle different pies and pies charts.

Tuscon’s Pima Air & Space Museum built a paper airplane that was so big it had to be lifted and launched by helicopter. The 800lb. plane hit a top speed of 98mph before it crashed to the ground.

Former UC Berkeley QB Joe Ayoob and airplane builder John Collins recently set a world distance record with a flight that never left its hangar at McClellan Air Force Base; he tossed a paper airplane over 226 feet. (Thanks Triston!)

Digital print house MOO steps up their game with their luxurious new business card line, printed on super-thick 32pt Mohawk card stock, with four-color printing and a color sandwiched in the middle.

Troubled by the complexity of tying a bow onto gifts? You might want to go with Fred & Friends wrapping paper for the lazy man, which pops a bow right off the paper, thanks to (included) 3D glasses.

Tap into your inner distracted schoolkid with this paper airplane notepad. Simply write your note on one of the 5 different paper plane designs, fold along the dotted lines and send your message.

Multi-talented artist Brian Chan from the MIT Hobby shop has created a wonderful award-winning collection of complex, intricate origami insects, made from uncut, single sheets of paper.

Make your greetings stand out from the Hallmark-infested deluge that your loved ones will receive this season with these pop-up cards by Alessandra Mondolfi. There’s even a card for your enemies.

Using a piece of cardboard to create a smooth updraft, this MIT genius is able to fly a paper airplane nearly a 1/4 mile before it runs out of steam. Find out how here.

Artist Nick Georgiou uses discarded newspapers and books to create humanoid sculptures and paintings, each with a personality all its own. Each one is sort of a memento to the gradual death of paper.

Saxton Hale would approve of these versatile thank you cards. Just in time for the coming gift-receiving – okay, and giving – season. Show people just how grateful you are, i.e. not so much.

Could paper be the new pointillism? We think there’s a good chance, especially after viewing this intricate series of three portraits made from tiny paper rolls by Anant Nanvare for Conquerer Paper.

Artist Jennifer Collier carefully bonds, waxes, traps and stitches cardboard, thread, and road maps into contemporary textiles; that “fabric” is then fashioned into pristinely detailed everyday objects.

An all-occasion greeting card that works exactly like the Universal Wrapping Paper. Contains over a hundred well wishes, and even comes with a cheat sheet for the extraordinarily lazy.

Artist Kylie Stillman breathes new life into dead books by skillfully carving out silhouette-like tree designs. It’s all the more interesting when you remember where paper comes from.

Spanish-based artist Lorenzo Duran puts plain old leaves through a painstaking process of washing, drying, molding and careful cutting away to create his precise and detailed art.