For all paper lovers: Héctor Sos “Swatch Book Creator”, 2009. Via

“Do you love the fresh scent of paper, ink, and glue? We sure do! That’s why we created New Book Smell in a can. Regardless of whether you download your e-books from the Kindle Store or Project Gutenberg, New Book Smell will bring back those long lost memories of your favorite local bookstore. With New Book Smell your friends will never know that you’re reading an e-book.” We also love to touch magazines, to rumple them, to smell them, to take them with us, to throw them away or to keep them in our bookshelfs. But sadly this “New Book Smell” is only a fake product - but a very funny and meaningful, too. Via

Simon Schubert is really the master of paper artworks. Check his portfolio - it´s impressing. It´s all done with a special folding technique. Via

Jen Stark is doing great sculptures - out of hand-cut stack of colored paper. Via

Photograph: Just
Great art project from Berlin: “Papergirl Nr. 4 knocks on your door!

 Thanks to all the participants Papergirl is getting 4 this year and we hearby want to invite you all, to take part!
 Papergirl is an artproject, which in the style of american paperboys distributes rolled art pieces by bicycle in the streets to random passers-by. This happens once a year, when it´s summer in Berlin! All given work is exhibited in a big show before the distribution. 
This year, additionally, we plan a bike-workshop.

 The artwork: Papergirl is distributed like a newspaper, but not edited or printed like one. It consists of art pieces which are rolled up together. Contributions are handed in by mail or personally and are later included in the art rolls. There are no guidelines as to format, subject matter or quantity, so originals, prints, photos, copies, texts etc. come together. Each roll contains 10-15 different works, meaning that each one of them is unique! Only premice for contributions: the work has to be rolable and it has to be at least 2 pieces so we can exhibit one distributed one. 
We have 3 meetings in Berlin to collect the artwork. Each date is the third wednesday in the month from 7 till 9 pm: 
april 15th, 
march 13th and 
june 17th at Gulasch. Or you can send something by airmail. For postal address contact: info (at) papergirl-berlin.de. The final deadline for all contributions is june 17th.” See a video of Papergirl #3 here, the little sister in California here, find all other information here and see all artworks here. Via Mail, thanks Anne!

Designboom has a nice feature about the making process of the “papier” bags from german designer Saskia Diez. “The different-size travelling bags are made of DuPont™Tyvek®, a synthetic paper that is extremely light but at the same time robust. A silk-screen printing technique was used on the surface of the material. the bags are light, waterproof, recyclable and tear proof.”