Labeled origami CD case

It’s a slow news day here at the ranch, and you know what that means: Art Project Day!

A while back I found instructions for making a nifty origami CD case. I use them for most everything now. No longer do I suffer the shame of downloading the latest whizzbang version of NetBSD only to have my CD scratched up days later.

For a while, life was good. But then, I found myself hunting for a Sharpie to label my cases. The inconvenience of finding a marker combined with my terrible handwriting led me to think, “there has to be a better way!” Indeed there was. It turned out I already had a device capable of writing on paper for me. Not only that, but it could even draw the lines on the paper where I needed to fold.

So, Adobe and I went to work building a PDF form that when printed would look purdy and tell me where to fold. I offer this to you today, absolutely free, to do whatever the hell you want with it. If you need help with folding it, check out this guy’s website.

All you need to use it is a printer and Acrobat Reader (for some reason, the form doesn’t work with Preview.app).

Download origami cd cover.pdf