It's Snowing Star Wars! 10 new DIY Star Wars Paper Snowflake Templates for 2011.

above: Yoda, one of the ten new DIY Star Wars paper snowflakes for 2011


This year, one of my most popular posts has been my 2010 how to make your own Star Wars snowflakes (Darth Vader and a Bobba Fett/Clone snowflake) as taught by a husband and wife team.

Well, now it's snowing Star Wars!
Two more designers, Anthony Herrera and Chaunce Dolan of Matters of Grey have jumped on the paper Star Wars Snowflake bandwagon and provide us with ten new Star Wars paper snowflake templates for 2011.


above illustration by Anthony Herrera

A new Darth Vader, Yoda, R2D2, C-3PO, Scout Troopers, Storm Troopers, Clone Troopers, Admiral Ackbar, Ashoka, and Boba Fett snowflakes you can make yourself with some paper, a pair of scissors, a downloadable template and a little help from The Force.

c3po Snowflake:

R2D2 Snowflake:

Scout Trooper Snowflake:

Storm Trooper Snowflake:

Clone Trooper:

Ashoka Snowflake:

Admiral Ackbar Snowflake:

Darth Vader Snowflake (new for 2011):

Boba Fett Snowflake (new for 2011):

The Yoda paper cut snowflake is shown at the top of this post.

The pdf diagrams/templates of all the above can be downloaded here.

and the original two...
Darth Vader Snowflake:

Boba Fett and Clone Trooper Snowflake:

pdf diagrams/templates of the above two can be downloaded here


"Have A Merry Christmas, You Will."


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Books and Bibles that go Bang Bang! Bookguns by artist Robert The.

Artist Robert The has been turning the printed word into facsimiles of weapons since 1995. His choice of books have purposefully ironic titles or subject matter when handcarved into the shape of handguns.

The Medium Is The Message:

Poetic Justice:

Psychotherapy With Adolescent Girls:

Young Students:



He states "Obsession with the semiotic erosion of meaning and reality led me to create objects that evangelize their own relevance by a direct fusion of word and form. Books (many culled from dumpsters and thrift store bins) are lovingly vandalized back to life so they can assert themselves against the culture which turned them into debris." - Robert The, 1995




In addition to taking well known novels such as J.D. Salinger's Catcher In the Rye (above) and academic texts and turning them into pistols made of pages, Robert has a series of bibles he's turned into different weapons as well.






Undoubtedly his turning bibles into guns and grenades will get most people up in arms, so to speak, but that's kind of the point.


above: various versions of the new testament carved into handguns by Robert The

Thanks to GizFactory via Toxel for bringing these to my attention.

Retro 80's Items Made Entirely Out of Cut Paper by Zim and Zou.

Thanks to an interview in Don't Panic, I've discovered the paper crafts of Zim and Zou, aka Thibault Zimmermann and Lucie Thomas.



The French Graphic Design studio proposes a contemporary approach of design thanks to a mix of different fields such as paper sculpture, installation, graphic design and illustration.



Their latest project, Back to Basics, uses bright colorful paper crafted into icons from the 80's such as Polaroid cameras, giant clunky Motorola phones, floppy disks, Sony Walkman, casettes and more.





































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Thibault ZIMMERMANN - Lucie THOMAS

10 rue du recteur Louis Bruntz 54000 Nancy (FR)

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