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The “Arctic Paper” project by Shaz Madani is a project to support environmentally conscious design projects.

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”Sheep Poo Paper is derived from just where the name implies and is available in a wide range of colors, sizes and thicknesses. It is a viable alternative to tree-based paper, but comes from a renewable, less energy intensive source. Used for everyday paper stock, heavier card stock, envelopes, business cards, post and gift cards and custom orders and designs. The sheep poo that is collected is completely sterilized by boiling and is then beaten into a cellulose pulp. Using traditional techniques, the pulp is formed into sheets and heat pressed into usable paper.” [via jgebbia on Twitter]

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Pixelnotes is “a wallpaper consisting of four layers of varying grey tones on a bright primary backing. Each layer is perforated in a grid format and backed with a tacky adhesive similar to ‘post-it’ notes. Pixelnotes is inspired by the way we work within a space. The walls become functional, an integrated noticeboard that documents our activity within the room. Pixelated formations and shapes develop according to our patterns of use.”

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”Air Lines is an art project showing worldwide airliner routes. Every single scheduled flight on any given day is reresented by a fine line from it’s point of origin to it’s port of destination. Thereby forming a net of thousands of lines. Hubs like JFK, FRA or DXB turn into dark knots where lines meet, lesser served local services are only are a subtle hint.” Choose from 4 different posters. Each one is printed on state of the art offset printers on high quality heavyweight fine-art paper. Securely packed and shipped in cardboard mailing tube. The white on black version is limited to a print run of only 100 each.” [via jgebbia on Twitter]

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Help Remedies creates soothing package designs for medication. From Creative Review: “Their packets of pills and plasters not only look great but are also made of 100% recycled paper pulp. And at $6 for 12 headache pills (or 8 plasters), that’s not much more than most of the more well-known brands, so these are no vanity purchase. Plus you’ll get to look just that little bit cooler when you’re ill.” Also be sure to check out the ”help, I’m bored” page.

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In art school, I kept all my receipts for art supplies for several years in folders and boxes, thinking I would do something with them one day. Turn them into an art piece, attach them into a long paper trail documenting my consumption. Something. I love Kate Bingaman-Burt‘s solution: “I draw something that I purchase everyday. I also draw my credit card statements.” You can see her drawings at her Flickr collection or at her blog, Obsessive Consumption.

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Designed by Atypk Paris, “a perfect desktop notepad that looks remarkably like the notepad icon on your other, virtual desktop.” The Icon Notepad is available at the Design Museum Shop. [via poerava at Stylehive]

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These cool tyvek wallets are made by dynomighty design inc. and available at designboom. “Stitching is always the first thing that rips in a wallet...well, not any more. This wallet is made from one single sheet of tyvek paper. There’s a tri-fold wallet in the style of an international mail envelope as well as a blue and white bi-fold wallet with text printed in a classic dot matrix font.” Only $19. (via emilychang at Stylehive)

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Designed by Natalie Davis (Oakland), the Braille Blank Notebook has a cover “made from pages of braille editions of magazines like Seventeen and Rolling Stone...the 32 pages inside each notebook are made from reclaimed paper which is smooth for writing, doodling or working out life’s complex mathematical formulas. Each notebook is one-of-a-kind and hand-bound with your choice of blue, green or red thread.”

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Perhaps it’s the white paper, the minimalism or the precision, but the imaginative papercut work of Danish artist Peter Callesen moves me. He writes: “I find the materialization of a flat piece of paper into a 3D form as an almost magic process - or maybe one could call it obvious magic, because the process is obvious and the figures still stick to their origin, without the possibility of escaping. In that sense there is also an aspect of something tragic in most of the cuts.” Visit his site to see all his work, which includes papercuts, works on snow and ice, installations and works on water.

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At PicoCool we tend to keep our notes on digital devices, but if we were in the mood for paper, we would get this cute little SPA memo pad holder. Comes in green, pink and blue. First bookmarked by luckiedog to Stylehive.

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