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Clive Thompson

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A picture of Charles Young’s paperwork: There are dozens of tiny buildings and vehicles made from colorful paper arrayed together on a white table, so that it looks like a city seen from above
Paperwork buildings, vehicles and machines by Charles Young

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1) 📜 The whimsical, colorful papercraft of Charles Young

Charles Young has spent years crafting tiny little buildings, machines and vehicles out of colorful paper. He was inspired by Sanzo Wada’s 1930 book A Dictionary of Color Combinations, which explored how different color combos worked. Young would pick different combos Wada had specced out, then build a teensy papercraft object out of each one.

As Colossal writes …

After formulating a general idea of the intended piece, Young prints each hue onto a single sheet of watercolor paper. “I’ll choose one of the colours to be the main feature, used in the walls, and…

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Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson

Written by Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net