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Make it Yourself | Free printable: QR code valentines

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

Obviously, we know our way around QR codes. After all, not only do we make QR code jewelry, we’ve even made a QR code jack o’ lantern!

So even a holiday like Valentine’s Day should have a good dose of geek chic.

We put our laser-cutter to work and made this:
"Be Mine"

If you’re curious about what it encodes, get your smart phone out and scan this:

Since we know it’s not likely that you’ll have your own laser-cutter, we’ve made a printable version. (Though, if you’re really ambitious, you could still cut out the QR code!)

Happy Valentine’s Day geeks <3

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Portfolio | Custom wedding invitations

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

We recently designed some custom wedding invitations for our friends Shona and Craig which turned out so nicely that I thought I’d show them off.

Shona and Craig aren’t stuffy-wedding-nazi types and they wanted something on the modern side that didn’t look like it was too sappy. They definitely didn’t want anything that was ‘stock’ looking either, and coming up with a custom invite was one of the most fun design projects we’ve ever had.

When they mentioned that their ceremony would be in an arboretum, I started playing around with a stylized tree. Note the subtle hearts formed with the branches :)

They picked a beautiful pearl-metallic blue card stock of a nice snappy thickness. Into the laser-cutter it went! (We really like playing with our laser and seeing just how fine a resolution we can push it to).

The end result was this:

The invitation text was printed onto matte-white cardstock with the tree motif repeated inside:

Congrats to Shona and Craig! May your wedded life be blissful and full of unicorn-sappiness! ;)

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Inspiration | When pigs fly

Monday, October 8th, 2007

A while back, someone (my better half, maybe?) introduced me to the Flying Pig company, because they obviously knew that I have this fascination for paper engineering in its many forms (elaborate origami, pop-up books, whathaveyou).

I just love the idea that something that comes as a 2-D form can be manipulated into something almost magically 3-D.
The Flying Pig makes these wonderful paper animation kits that are “paper models you make that move.”

And they do have some pretty elaborate and whimsical models. Of them all, my favourites include their namesake ‘Flying Pig‘:

and the ‘T Rex‘:

Make sure to check out their page of free downloadable kits too. They’re FREE! (I downloaded one, but I haven’t had the time yet to actually assemble it).

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