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Looking for a fun creative craft project? I am! I had to buy an X-acto knife for my Graphic Design class and now I’m looking for excuses to cut paper. Well I found one!

Mini-eco’s Paper Weaving tutorial shows you how to create some Space Invaders, but the possibilities are endless. Grab some colored pencils and graph paper and start planning out what you’re going to weave! They’d actually make great present toppers! And my birthday is coming up…

via SwissMiss

In high school I didn’t have my own car. I shared the 2 family cars with my parents, which meant I had 2 keys for the cars as well as a house key and a key to my employer’s office. This made for a lot of keys. I soon realized that I could use a carabiner to manage them all without weighing me down! I still use one now.

Now I have all of my individual keys on their own ring and I use the rings to add/remove the keys. Well, Scott Amron has come up with the Carabiner Key. You can currently place an order for one, although there’s no price listed on the site. And don’t worry, for those of you who aren’t into the whole carabiner thing, he also has the Split Ring Key. I personally don’t like to damage my fingernails every time I need to change the keys on my keyring.

via @wired

I recently posted about a way to take a film camera and make it digital (which was unfortunately an April Fools Joke). But now here’s a post about how to make a film roll digital, well kind of. Photojojo has created the USB Film Roll which is basically a USB stick put into an old film container.

I did a quick Google search and came across a few sites which tell you how to DIY, so that might be worth checking out if you’re interested!

via SwissMiss

Graphics Design Blog has compiled a list of Out of Bounds Photography. You can also find a bunch just by doing a Google Image Search.

I loved the ones that could have been an actual installation – a photograph with materials coming from them.

I’ll have to keep this in mind for a cool project for my photography class!

How many rolls of wrapping paper do you have? If you’re anything like my mom you’ve got containers full of wrapping paper. There’s one for baby showers, 3 for birthdays, and 10+ for Christmas (plus the secret “From: Santa” stash that is kept somewhere different).

But with the Word Puzzle wrapping paper you can keep one roll of wrapping paper for every occasion.

via SwissMiss

Listed as a website with unusual navigation, Grip Limited has an unusual website period! But it’s pretty cool, although not necessarily the most usable thing in the world. Let me attempt to explain it to you:

The website is basically a big table with one row and multiple columns. The columns each scroll independently, but are fixed to be the height of the page. There’s a menu at the top of the page, which expands down, but it’s not really that helpful unless you’re looking for a specific project that they worked on.

As far as navigation is concerned: you can use your mouse to grab and move left and right as well as up and down within a column; similarly you can use your arrow keys to move left and right across the columns and up and down the active column.  Also, you can use your scroll wheel to move up and down the column. You can collapse columns by pushing the Space key or by clicking on the column header. If you forget any of this, you can reference the second column, appropriately called “OMG WTF”.

Go check it out:

via @mlane

UPDATE 6/2: GripLimited has won a Webby. For what you ask? “Best Navigation and Structure”. If you’re asking “WTF?” then have a look over at UXMagazine’s article on the matter…

Paper Leaf has created a quick reference sheet for design elements. It’s made to be used as a poster or a desktop background. Click on the link above to see download options.

via Chart Porn

What this video has to do with MTV I’m not sure, but it is pretty awesome!

via @therealmasoud via @janepyle