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The secrets of paper engineering

Q, R&D Mastermind

To ignite your creative spark, Q stands as the Paper DIY expert. His time is spent between labs to develop a new DIY model where manipulating high-quality paper becomes a soothing and rewarding experience.

Reinventing Paper DIY is no easy feat. Q's team completed a dozen of R&D breakthroughs before even the first story was born. Progress in three-dimensional prototyping, uncoated & recycled fiber-based materials, and advanced paper engineering to come up with a new system that would benefit millions of creative people.

So whenever you feel stuck in your creative process, Q's works will provide you with all the confidence you need to keep going, be imaginative, and transform a baseline story into an artpiece you can be proud of.

And if that's not enough — check out how the 3 other sidekicks can help: Mary, Hermione, or Samwise.

5 keys to premium Paper DIY

By combining materials research, structural engineering and behavioural science, Q and the team came up with a global new Paper DIY system to simplify, solidify, and inspire building with confidence. This new system brings Engineering and Design together to convey technical concepts into the most simple ways possible. To make it even more accessible, we narrowed down features to 5 key actions: fold, peel, stick, stack, and strap.
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Advanced Paper Engineering

The secrets of paper engineering

Before FOLDORI, Paper DIY didn't exist as a premium. Because the paper material is thin and prone to wearout. It doesn't give many opportunities for the assembler to try and explore. It's non-forgiving. That's where Q enters. From precision CO2 laser cutting to colour-enhanced offset printing to the raw material itself, the engineering prowess of Q and his team brought what was a millenia-old commodity to a remodeled piece of engineering. Raw material process When tackling Paper DIY, the first big Question that Q asked was: can paper replace plastic bricks or plywood boards? Indeed, working with paper is fantastic in oh so many ways: it's a highly sustainable, creative, flexible, and (relatively) easy-to-transform material. But to build complex shapes, objects, and in-depth sceneries with paper? That's another challenge. CO2 laser    Paper printing

Next feature releases

Golden matte paper

Past releases

Laser-cutting 250gsm paper sheets

Layer-stacking stripes

Paper belts

DIY system research

Mastering the basics

Mastering the basics

As a premium brand, before anything else be it fancy features or complex engineering solutions, we must deliver the market's highest quality and performance.

This means becoming true experts of what we do, what can make or break our products: we're hands-on from the raw material's chemical composition down to the every bits and pieces of the fully assembled set.

Robust and durable

Robust and durable

Paper or not, we won't sell a premium product that breaks. It's of utmost importance to us that when buying our sets you're confident you will engage in a DIY activity that's soothing, rewarding and full of learning.

So we research, prototype and test the most fit engineering solutions for each product we build - so that the worry is on us, not on end users.

Bevel's in the details

Bevel's in the details

As engineers we love to make things square. We share a tumultuous relationship with designers, their round shapes and pretty renders.

When it all comes together products are simple to handle, bring sky-high value to their users, and display a touch of wonder - this is where we thrive. By making complex details look so simple they feel like magic.

Extreme value

Extreme value

Yes, our paper quality is unmatched. But the real reason our pricing is so high: at every step of the way, we go the extra mile to push the limits of what's feasible with paper.

Each of our art set delivers the right type of value; the one with a user-centric approach, not the feature-packed rabbit hole for products solely based on spec sheets.

Q's quote

"The engineering process doesn't follow any rules when you're building something from scratch without any benchmark or pointers to whatever is the right direction to take, or what decision to make. FOLDORI's art sets were paramount in defining what is premium paper DIY and why it matters to consumers."