I thought I’d seen every type of book carving imaginable, until I ran across these jaw dropping creations by Guy Laramee. His works are so sculptural, so movingly natural in their form, they’ve really touched me. His works are inspired by a fascination with so-called progress in society: a thinking which says the book is dead, libraries are obsolete and technology is the only way of the future. [Read more...]
The first thing one thinks when viewing the works of Alexis Anne Mackenzie is how amazing it is that she can take the concept of the rudimentary collage so many of us made as children and create such vibrant, compelling works of art. The subtle messages within each of her collages gives one pause and draws one in for a closer look. Her works are poetic, created from common objects, and yet are anything but common. [Read more...]
Los Angeles is a city of colorful extremes: at once a exotic star filled architectural playground and sprawling urban jungle of low-slung suburbia. Taking her cues from the less opulent spots in the city, artist Ana Serrano has created a colorful, nearly life-sized version of the place she was born and raised… out of cardboard. Her large, room filling work, features the myriad storefronts you would find wandering the streets of LA, from nail salons, to liquor stores and sex shops, all with their signature hand-painted signage, sparse plant life and brilliant paint jobs. This isn’t the high end of the city, but it’s certainly full of life and character. [Read more...]
Just take a look at these beautifully ornate quilled letters. Quilling, the art of creating images with artfully rolled and curled strips of paper is used here by paper artist Sabeena Karnik to create the alphabet from A to S. Hailing from Mumbai India, she is a calligrapher, fine artist and illustrator/typographer specializing in paper sculpturing and acrylic murals. Be sure to swing by her Behance page or follow her on Twitter. [Read more...]
Popping out of a single sheet of white paper, these sculptures push the limit of possibility in paper arts. Artist Peter Callesen uses only a knife and folds to create amazingly detailed 3D scenes, leaving the empty space on the flat page as reminders of how the shapes where created (sometimes from surprising shapes). See a huge collection of Callesen’s work at petercallesen.com [Read more...]
It’s not often that we run across a piece of paper art that is also functional, but that’s just what we have here: set designer and paper aficionado Kelly Angood has recently designed a strikingly lifelike Hasselblad camera made entirely of paper and corrugated cardboard. As you can see from the results below, the pinhole camera gives some very stylish and classic results on it’s medium format 120 film. [Read more...]
Cleverly returning a hint of their paper based origins, artist Kylie Stillman takes old discarded books and carefully carves inverted bonzai tree reliefs in their pages. Her works come at a time when book art and carving are gaining in popularity, yet her works stand out as unique examples in the young trend. The Australian artist got her start at carving books in 2006 when she trimmed a bird into a discarded tome; she later gave her birds a place to sit, progressing to potted plants and now her current tree carvings. For her latest work featuring trees carved in stacks of boldly colored paper, see her website kyliestillman.com. [Read more...]
Pattern Matters is a graphic design-based project that seeks to inspire designers to look at pattern from a variety of different angles. The project is a collection of hand-made 3D infographics which look at different ways to amplify the role of pattern in design and encourage tactile exploration. The main focus of the project is is to demonstrate that pattern is a crucial element in graphic design, and not merely a decorating tool. [Read more...]
Looking like tiny floating snowflakes, French artist Etienne Cliquet’s new work Flottille is a beautiful thing to behold. Using tissue thin pieces of paper, Cliquet cuts patterns into pieces only 2 or 3 centimeters across. He then carefully folds his creations and places then in a shallow dish of water. Technically the pieces react to the capillary action of the water, drawing the folded pieces down… but to the eyes, it’s pure magic.
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