This is either completely cool or the act of two people who have way too much time on their hands, but either way I’ll never look at an Exact-o blade the same way again.
Designers Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann have painstakingly re-created a range of retro devices with meticulously sliced paper — including a Game Boy, a Polaroid camera and a Walkman. The French duo behind design studio Zim and Zou has launched a nostalgia-inducing collection under the title Back to Basics. It took around a year to make all the pieces, with each pattern based on accurate measurements taken from the real objects.
