Philadelphia artist Alex Queral has taken the pages from discarded phone books and made these cool 3D sculptures. Queral first sketches out the famous portraits free hand, then places the drawing over the pages of the phone book and starts cutting.

“Every year when the new phone book comes out you see just piles of the old ones lying around waiting for collection. I'm sure a lot of hard work goes into recycling them but there are thousands that go unused at all because most people just use the internet to find people these days. I was out looking for wood to make a sculpture one day and I noticed a huge pile of them on the pavement. I suddenly thought they would probably make a pretty good material for carving, so I gave it a go.”

via Daily Mail