Sometimes the best projects are the simplest. This magazine wall treatment from CraftStylish Magazine is certainly at the top of this category. The designers were looking for a way to brand their booth at a tradeshow with their magazine, and ended up using the magazine itself as an entire wall treatment. There's no scissors or multiple steps required, just your old magazines and a few hours of your time. Click through to see what a few folded pages in repetition do to an entire wall!
You can check out the full tutorial over at Craftsylish along with the back story, more pictures and extra details.
Using a magazine that is between 100-200 pages (the more pages the more folding you have to do), fold down the tops of two pages.
Next fold up the bottom half without creasing the fold all the way to the end (leaving the slightly bubbled look).
They used velcro strips to adhere theirs to the wall (since it was intended for a tradeshow, they had limitations to what they could use), although they could be easily staped, taped or glued, depending on the amount of labor desired to remove them from the wall.
The final effect is quite stunning and would be a great way to rid yourself of your magazines that are headed for the recycling bin!
Thanks Craftstyilish!
NPR 06.11.2008
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Cummon, really? As a trade show booth -especially when your product IS your magazine, it's great. But as home decor? really?
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I don't like to be negative but I hate it. I would not want to see this in my house!
view Mtlmaven's profile
i think it rocks!
view Tuesday Marie's profile
Maybe three or four of them in a cluster, but not an entire wall in your home.
view oakland's profile
mmm dusty
view alicee's profile
maybe few of those as a holiday or party decoration, but other than that - dust, dust, dust. And bugs.
view Nudik's profile
mmm flammable
view AlmostAD's profile
No folded magazines, nor folded books in my space, that's written on the door.
view Daniel Poitiers's profile
When I was a kid, my bus driver used to make Santas out of old TV guides. I thought it was weird then.
view jlg's profile
Meh. I could see that working anywhere here in Austin, TX but I think I'll pass on my home for now.
view Zhahira's profile
Interesting...for more personal and much cuter versions you should see my friend Katya's books:
http://artseenasheville.blogspot.com/2008/08/books-by-katya-marritz.html
they are beautiful and affordable
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Did you also know you could make a belt out of gum wrappers? http://www.tramp-art.com/prison_art.htm
view K T G's profile
When I was a kid, my bus driver used to make Santas out of old TV guides. I thought it was weird then.
Ha!
view Henrietta the Terrible's profile
I've seriously made Christmas trees and angels out of old TV Guides, and I love them. I love this, except that this many of them really would see like a fire hazard. No, really.
view Curtis's profile
I think a few of these would be pretty.
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Ebenezerbond- your friends books are beautiful and strange.
view StudioStarter's profile
this idea can go a great length with some enhancement and new thinking. I think the execution is limitless, really cool, another knowledge of recycle being embedded.
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I defnintely like it in context. If fireproofed and with enough space (because this does encroach on space a fair bit) I might consider it in my home. Maybe for a wall in a foyer or something... (Although using the same issue of the magazine with the repeat designs you get that way would make it better than "real life" where they would all look different.)
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