Origami, letterpress, linocuts, laser-cuts, pepakura, pop-ups, flip-books, silhouettes, maché, and more.
I love these charming papel picado rehearsal dinner invitations from Denise Mieko Cherry for Once Wed. Carrying the Mexican theme of their party into their invitations, she shows how she put together these mini papel picado banners and attached them to two cards for the invitations. Though they are demonstrated as a wedding dress rehearsal […]
Benjamin Parker will blow your mind with his origami tessellations. Pictured above is his Light Blue Tessellation, folded from one hexagonal sheet of dyed Zanders Elefantenhaut paper and sewn to a piece of mat board. Based in Connecticut, Benjamin has been making origami since he was 6 years old, and it shows. Check out the […]
Artist James Roper folded 10,000 origami flowers over a three year period. Folding about 10 per day – every day – he created what is now an installation called “Devotion.” The flowers are arranged in various ways on the gallery floor and are simply stunning. [via NOTCOT] As I explored Roper’s web site further, I […]
Some really great work by Mauricio Velasquez Posada (photos) and Jum Nakao (video above): origami + fashion = gorgeous paper clothing. More pictures and video after the jump. (Thanks, Leah Buechley!)
Jessica of How About Orange shared a picture of a sweet straw wrapper rose that came on her drink at a Thai restaurant. Determined to figure out how to make one herself, she’s started trying based on a ribbon flower video from Instructables, but wasn’t very successful, so she put a call out to her […]
Meg at Decor It Yourself shows us how to make some sweet kirigami flowers in this video turorial.
Happy tax day, everyone! I love the quilled paper art of Nava Lubelsky, particularly this stunning piece made up of her 1998 tax file. (Talk about turning trash into treasure!) The pieces almost look like lichen or some kind of bacterial growth, not detritus from our ordinary lives. I’m always so inspired to see art […]
