If you’ve been following this blog even remotely, you might have sussed my interest in papercraft and recycled materials, possibly partly due to my own artistic limitations. I’m in awe of artists who can do what I can’t – produce highly visual and sculptural pieces, rather than simply text, and particularly transform paper, something I [...]
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Sewn Paper Sculptures
October 24th, 2011 No Comments
Tags: hand-made · inspiration · paper · paper sculpture
Psychedelic Paper Sculptures
October 5th, 2011 No Comments
Jen Stark creates fantastical, multicoloured paper sculptures which transgress the humble medium, composing simple sheets into three-dimensional works of art using every spectrum of the rainbow. The intricate layers, the shapes they form, and the sheer vibrancy of her work are mesmerising – what’s more, they’re all hand-cut. Perhaps it’s not wise to delve too [...]
Tags: design · inspiration · paper · paper sculpture · three-dimensional
Pick a card, any card…
April 8th, 2011 No Comments
Our former bookleteer blogger, Karen Martin, wrote about the effects of using different types of paper when printing eBooks in a previous post, “Paper Selection“, but having just rediscovered a few examples, I thought I’d share them with you again. Carmen Vela Maldonado created these lovely eBooks by experimenting with different coloured paper and card, [...]
Tags: bookleteer · cut-out · eBooks · inspiration · inspiring uses · making · paper
Programmable Origami
July 7th, 2010 No Comments
Alan Chamberlain, one of our PU&P Augmented Reading participants, posted a link to the bookleteer Facebook page about a programmable surface that has been created by researchers at MIT and Harvard. The composite material which looks pretty much like a piece of paper can fold itself into a number of predetermined shapes (in this case [...]
Tags: electronic · inspiration · paper
