BLOODROOT BLADES / VAN WYK & SNYDER

//Unlike knifemakers who start by grinding down stock pieces of metal, these highly sought-after blacksmiths go to junkyards and auto yards to find recyclable metals they can manipulate, whether old springs from a 1954 Chevrolet or discarded brass from a shipwreck. They transform selected scrap metals into one-of-a-kind knives so stunning that customers are willing to order the blades more than two years in advance.//

//The word cleave can mean two different things: The word cleave can mean to bring apart as in cleaver" but the word cleave can also mean bring together. And the knife does both of those things at the same time, which I think is an incredible thing. It is cleaving food from itself to cleave people together. And that's a really neat characteristic of how knives work with people.//

[ Bloomberg, MADE, Bloodroot Blades ]

PAPER BRIDGE / STEVE MESSAM

// PaperBridge is an outdoor art installation created by artist Steve Messam, open to the public until May 18. It comprises 22,000 sheets of paper, made at Cumbria's Burneside Mill and carefully packed together over a wooden frame which was subsequently removed. It will be sent back to the mill for recycling once the installation is complete. The bridge was inspired by other temporary constructions, including Tokyo architect Siguru Ban's cardboard bridge in France. However, Messam's structure doesn't rely on fixings and instead rests on "vernacular architectural principles as used in drystone walls and the original pack-horse bridges that dot the Lake District," he says. // 

[ Steve Messam, Mashable, Dezeen ]