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We love the playful details of this business card designed by @studioonfire for See Jane Blog. Printed on 110# Crane Lettra, the cards were custom duplexed with two inks & a custom diecut — the little daisy in the corner, which is absolutely charming.
Build your own NYC: papercraft NYC buildings that can be bought and assembled into your very own NYC
VANESSA LAM, UFO ZINE: by graphic designer vanessa lam, a ucla and art center alumnae. $6
It's FORTUNE TELLERS!!! Although much more beautiful than when I was a child (and did not know about other paper but construction paper and notebook paper). :) www.blovedwedding... Also for video tutorial: www.youtube.com/w...
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This tutorial shows different things to do with the flower.
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A ballgown made of Little Golden Books. The bodice is made of the books' shiny foil spines. Wow.
The entire text of "The Secret Garden" on a poster
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This is made of 4 circles. So smooth, Click on link for tutorial.
Tom Hull is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts and is the author of Project Origami. He finished his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Rhode Island in 1997; his current field of study includes the mathematics of origami.
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Erik Demaine is an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Called one of the most brilliant scientists in America by Popular Science, he received a MacArthur Genius Fellowship at the age of 22. Demaine’s work combines science and art, geometry, paper folding and computational origami.
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The late Masahiro Chatani (1934-2008) an architect by trade and the founder of Origamic Architecture designed each piece. He was passionate about this type of work and traveled extensively teaching and exhibiting his talent along the way. To re-iterate it was soothing to view such creativity contrived with slow, deliberate and painstaking beauty.
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British paper sculptor Su Blackwell uses the delicacy of paper to make a statement in her work, saying “It is the delicacy, the slight feeling of claustrophobia, as if these characters, the landscape have been trapped inside the book all this time and are now suddenly released. A number of the compositions have an urgency about them, the choices made for the cut-out people from the illustrations seem to lean towards people on their way somewhere, about to discover something, or perhaps escaping from something. And the landscapes speak of a bleak mystery, a rising, an awareness of the air.”
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Richard Sweeney began using paper as a medium for sculpture when he realized that it was a great way to create form through hands-on material exploration. Of his work, Sweeney says “Discovering the properties of the medium in this direct way helped me better understand the potential of paper in its own right, leading to the creation of sculptural forms.”
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Dutch paper artist Ingrid Siliakus deems her work ‘paper architecture’, and it’s a fitting description. Siliakus builds paper recreations of buildings made by master architects as well as her own abstract sculptures. She draws inspiration from sources like artist M.C. Escher and architect and paper sculptor Masahiro Chatani, whose work inspired her to try her hand at 3-D paper sculpture
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When it comes to reusing old books, Brian Dettmer has perhaps one of the most creative ideas ever: he turns them into fascinating carved sculptures called ‘Book Autopsies’ that transform them from dust collectors to fine art. Dettmer’s work goes beyond the simple concept of carving the pages of a book into a shape. The paper is cut to reveal certain words and images, for a shadow box-like effect.
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Haruki Nakamura’s papercraft does more than just sit there and look pretty. The pieces fit together like gears, and actually turn for a kinetic effect that goes far beyond most papercraft creations. See YouTube video (link above) and skip to the 49 second mark on the video to see his papercraft heart in action.
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Brian Chan has been creating origami since elementary school, so it’s not too surprising that his work has evolved to the point of winning Best Original Design in the MIT origami competition. The MIT student finds the geometry aspect of origami folding to be especially rewarding. His portfolio of creations includes lots of insects, like the centipede, stag beetle, katydid and pictured above, as well as comic book and anime characters.
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Eric Joisel is one modern origami artist that creates incredibly complex paper sculptures using blueprints that take him literally years to complete. Joisel says the creation process is like a scientific method, with creatures from myths and legends – like dwarves, fairies, hobbits and mermaids – popping up from his ‘crease patterns.’
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