foolfillment: the blog

Clacksblog blogged about a couple of sites showcasing some beautiful work. They are amazingly simple, highly effective, and even strongly emotive pieces of art. Made from only single sheets of paper, they are well worth looking at.

Vanilla Joy and Peter Calleson.

Tonight I was looking around for some tips on getting the right proportions for a picture frame I’m hoping to make and found this instructables slideshow on how to make a frame. It’s well above anything we could do in a school workshop but it gets across the care and thought that has to be put in to any craft project. Instructables is a website I always forget about, but basically it is flickr but with the specific intention of being used to create photosets that tell you ‘how to’ do something. Some of them are fantastic, I should really get some of my pupils to make one.

And finally the other thing, who can find me a copy of Helvetica that I can play in the UK? It is a film about the Helvetica typeface (yes you did read that right, I want a film about a font) but as far as I can tell it is only available on region 1 DVD. I spotted it on Presentation Zen, a site Neil Winton tipped me off on the other night.