GF Smith opens London Show Space with basementful of paper towers
Papermaker GF Smith has opened its first showroom in London, which includes a gallery filled with an undulating installation of colourful paper rolls. More
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WooJai Lee turns recycled newspaper into PaperBricks building blocks
Eindhoven-based designer WooJai Lee has turned recycled paper into bricks that can be used to build furniture. More
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Arjowiggins Creative Papers launches website with improved search tools
Dezeen promotion: Arjowiggins Creative Papers has launched a website that collates all of its paper ranges in a user-friendly space, with a search bar that lets designers find products by feature. More
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Ai Weiwei installs monstrous sculptures at Le Bon Marché to "speak to our inner child"
Artist Ai Weiwei has used traditional Chinese kite-making techniques to create mythological characters and creatures for windows, atriums and the gallery at Paris department store Le Bon Marché (+ slideshow). More
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Front sketches paper patterns for Eco Wallpaper collection
Maison&Objet 2016: Swedish studio Front has drawn patterns created by cut-out paper shapes to produce wallpaper designs with subtle three-dimensional effects. More
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Nendo's Block memo pad peels apart like a 3D puzzle
Japanese design studio Nendo has created a stationery collection that includes a cube of different-sized sticky notes (+ slideshow). More
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Winston Hacking creates absurd paper puppets for Soupcans' Siamese Brutality music video
Music: paper puppeteer and animator Winston Hacking has created a series of moving collages for the video to accompany Soupcans' Siamese Brutality track. More
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Horse's packaging for Tåpped birch water is designed to resemble tree bark
British design studio Horse has created a log-like carton and a Norse-inspired identity for birch-sap drink Tåpped, to help it break into the UK market (+ slideshow). More
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Barber and Osgerby turns to traditional Japanese craft for Hotaru lighting collection
London Design Festival 2015: design duo Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby worked with age-old methods of production in Japan to create a range of paper lanterns. More
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Gabriel Böhmer animates paper marionettes for his own music video
Music: a crow made of matches goes on an adventure through a paper landscape in singer-songwriter Gabriel Böhmer's music video for his own track The Singing Gate (+ movie). More
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Steve Messam creates crimson bridge from 20,000 sheets of paper
British artist Steve Messam has installed a weight-bearing bridge across a stream in the UK's Lake District using 20,000 sheets of bright red paper (+ slideshow). More
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Coachella festival pavilion by Ball-Nogues Studio built using over a tonne of paper pulp
Ball-Nogues Studio created a sinuous orange and purple pavilion that towered over music fans at this year's Coachella music festival by blasting pigmented paper pulp over a string structure (+ slideshow). More
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Nendo teams up with Luca Nichetto to create lights based on ice lollies
Milan 2015: Japanese studio Nendo has partnered with Italian designer Luca Nichetto to create a domed paper light for Foscarini. More
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Naoya Matsumoto Design uses crumpled paper to create grotto-like bar in Osaka
Swaths of crumpled tracing paper cocooned the interior of this pop-up bar in a Japanese gallery to transform the space into a cozy cave (+ slideshow). More
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Nendo's 3D-moulded light shades use traditional washi paper
Japanese studio Nendo has teamed up with a traditional Japanese paper moulding specialist to create a collection of pendant light shades with a coloured exterior and reflective interior (+ slideshow). More
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Kotaro Horiuchi creates a paper hideout for Fusionner 3.0 installation
Japanese architect Kotaro Horiuchi cut out profiles of gabled houses from large sheets of paper to create a tunnel inside a university gallery, forming the third installation in his Fusionner series (+ slideshow). More
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Kotaro Horiuchi creates a Paper Cave inside his architecture studio
Japanese architect Kotaro Horiuchi has created a white cave-like space in his office by hanging sheets of glass fibre paper from the ceiling (+ slideshow). More
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Origami headgear folded to resemble mythological creatures
These paper headdresses have been folded into the shapes of creatures from Chinese mythology by Paris accessories designer Qi Hu for the city's Printemps department store. More
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Glowing indoor forest made from paper by Orproject
London architecture studio Orproject has installed a forest of illuminated paper trees that join up to form a continuous canopy at a gallery in New Delhi (+ slideshow). More
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Fragile Beasts sculpture made from paper by Łódź University of Technology students
Students from Łódź University of Technology in Poland built this delicate stacked sculpture to demonstrate the structural properties of curve-folded paper. More