DIY project du jour: Turn old globes into snowpeople.
For how-to details, head over to Emily Henderson’s blog.
Artist Francisca Prieto turns old catalogs, books, maps, and other printed materials into works of art. She folds each page using origami techniques, then joins together the folded pieces.
Francisca provides the unique experience of being able to look at a book and all of its pages at once, yet unable to read any one page individually. A hidden narrative emerges in each work through the connections that Francisca makes both in terms of the folded structures she creates, and the conceptual connections of the images and text selected.
(via Design*Sponge)
![Each [notebook] is one-of-a-kind, as the cover is a unique map from somewhere around the world. There’s 48 pages of 100% recycled paper (with rounded corners to prevent dog-earing, of course). 5.25″ wide x 8″ tall.
Mapbook — ACCESSORIES — Better Living Through Design](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsp74iyxWM1qzv12bo1_400.jpg)
Each [notebook] is one-of-a-kind, as the cover is a unique map from somewhere around the world. There’s 48 pages of 100% recycled paper (with rounded corners to prevent dog-earing, of course). 5.25″ wide x 8″ tall.
The project arises from two real common situations.
The first: in previous years, before iphone apps appeared, we were used to collect a lot of maps of cities and places we visited for journey or holidays. I love maps because they both represent the journey’s state of mind and the identity of places. For that reason I always want, when possible, to keep them under my eye at home but the number of walls at home are a finite number…
The second: it happens that an old inherited lampshade can be damaged after several years or can be too old style for our apartments. And so what to do with maps and lampshade?
Memory Lamp. Musa Boom designs a recycled lamp - Musa Boom’s Blog
Thanks: Maria Cristina Debenedetti
Artist Creates Intricate Portraits Out of Old Maps
Artist Nikki Rosato creates intricate portraits by cutting away at old maps, leaving only the roads and rivers behind like a network of blood vessels. Rosato uses a Stanley knife to hand-cut away all of the landmasses between the roads and waterways, and then uses the delicate paper left to create portraits — some in 2-D and some sculptural pieces.
For her first map series — If You Were a Place, You’d Be … — she took photos of friends and asked them which place they felt best represented them or was important to them. She then used a map of that place to create a likeness of her subjects.
Rosato noted that because paper maps are rarely used any more, they are easy for her to acquire. “For my birthday this year, my mom surprised me with about 20 pounds of used road maps that she obtained from online sources such as eBay.”
(via Underwire - Wired.com)
How about a reclaimed journey to Ireland on St Patricks Day?
via Weckner Design
If, like me, you’re enthusiastic about repurposing old maps, you’ll like this idea:
Make bows from maps or magazine pages.
(Photo via How About Orange, which provides how-to info.)
File under “Why didn’t I think of that?”:
World BBQ grill, from www.goldenhen.com.au.
See also: Golden Hen’s art installation known as “Eggo house” — made out of egg cartons.
(hat tip to Liane Rossler)
Via libraryland:
“Map of the World” by Stefana McClure
Related: Earlier Unconsumption map-repurposing posts here.
