Paper cuts
So this past semester, I added a more comprehensive safety lecture to the learning to use an X-Acto knife portion of my beginning design classes.
And this was the first semester that some serious injuries actually occurred.
I’m thinking I should have not warned them so conscientiously. Usually I just say, a sharp X-Acto can cut thru pretty much anything. Paper, boards, plastic triangle, fingers. That’s my disclaimer. Don’t want to go into any more detail.
Elsa Mora does cool things with cut paper. She has a great X-Acto tutorial here.
(Yes designers still use X-Acto knifes. Mostly for presentation/mockups. And yes, I was once trained as a paste-up artist; something I could fall back on if computers just suddenly vanish. Sort of. Ahh, the smell of fresh Amberlith in the morning!)
Found via Natasha Newton
