Montreal-based artist Laurence Vallières creates animal sculptures using layered cardboard cutouts taken from found boxes.
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The former book editor whose fascination with one material has gone to artistic extremes. Subscribe to our channel Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/CraneTV Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/crane.tv
A traditional Chinese papercraft is to make these toys, flowers and dragons and whatnot out of honeycomb latticed layers of delicate colored paper. Pull them apart and the form appears.
Li Hongbo, a Beijing book editor and designer, has worked almost in reverse. The flattened shape IS the form, often an entirely believable facsimile of an object that suddenly and inexplicably folds and extends. It is quite uncanny, especially when human forms are the ones the open and unfold.
Netherlands-based artist Johan Scherft discovered papercrafting at 14 quite by accident when he started making hand-colored paper bird models. "It appealed to me because it combines so many different techniques like working in three dimensions combined with drawing and painting."
"Of course, it is impossible to capture every curve of the bird's body in paper, compromises have to be made, or the model would have too many gluing tabs, making it too difficult to make. A lot of the realism is suggested with the paintwork. For this part, I take the most time. With very fine brushes, I try to achieve the most realistic effect in color and detail. I use watercolors or gouache paint. It's always an exciting moment once the template has been painted to assemble the bird and see what the result is."
London-based artist Lobulo creates these complex, fun, crisp and colorful paper creations.
Making of that shows the process of the book cover "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" Credits for the film: Paper modeler: Lobulo Music: Hola A Todo El Mundo - León comunión Animation/edition: Sebastián Baptista More: http://lobulodesign.com/Don-Quijote
With a penchant for papercraft, artist Asya Kozina created these funny and gorgeous paper wigs and gowns.
Colombian artist, Diana Beltran Herrera makes these bright and beautiful birds out of paper. Her work is exhibited around the world.
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We're back with weekly wrap-up videos, in a different format from most of the 5 things TV. Hope you like it.
We saw a number of Chen Long-Bin's book carvings last week in the REBOUND DISSECTIONS AND EXCAVATIONS IN BOOK ART. I can't really get enough of them.
“In my artwork I always use printed matter – discarded books, magazines, and computer printouts; the cultural debris of our information society. The sculptures I create reference Eastern and Western icons and intellectual figures, thereby exploring cultural meanings and concepts. I always use text in my work and the content of the texts are relevant to my sculptures. My finished sculptures often seem to be wood or marble, though they consist of paper. They are constructed in such a way that the various parts fit together in a seamless manner.”
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We've seen Li Hongbo's fusion of traditional Chinese papercraft with Western sculptural tropes before. Here are a new set of the startling and unsettling pieces.
San Francisco-based designer Luca Iaconi-Stewart has spent 5 years creating this meticulous model of a Boeing 777 out of manila folders.
It is fascinating to see our obsessions made actual.
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Three friends decided to build a full-sized ghost pirate ship out of cardboard for a Treasure Island- themed Halloween party.
Finnish paper artist Janna Syvänoja (http://www.jannasyvanoja.com ) uses printed paper, maps, catalogues and phone books to create her work
Syvänoja: "I can make the rules, but the piece takes the shape of its own. When certain formed components start to follow each other and find their rhythm in my hands, the miracle happens."
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Printmaking, cut paper, and cheap dollar store items come together in Crystal Wagner's organic looking installations.
We've seen some of Clary's striking layered paper sculptures before. This set incorporates more structure and dimenensionality while maintaining the organic quality.
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A true maestro of origami, Matthieu Georger creates this stunning animals (real and imaginary, including minotaurs and dragons) simply by folding paper.
Rogan Brown on his nearly unbelievably detail papercut art:
“My work is an exploration and re-presentation of natural organic forms both mineral and vegetal. I look for patterns and repeated motifs that run through natural phenomena at different scales, from the microscopic to the macroscopic, from individual cells to large scale geological formations.”
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An all cardboard Fitzcaraldo. Fabricated shot and edited by Robin Frohardt www.robinfrohardt.com Please watch the making of "The Corrugation of Dreams" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FDfvlO54vg special help from Nick Chatfield-Taylor. p.s. can someone please send this to Werner Herzog? i really want him to see it.
Fitzcardboardaldo (above... beware the sound is pretty loud) is the work of puppet designer and paper crafter Robin Frohardt. The short video, an all cardboard homage to Fitzcarraldo (below) was shot and edited by Robin with special help from Nick Chatfield-Taylor.
From Wikipedia:
Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 film written and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski as the title character. It portrays would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known as Fitzcarraldo in Peru, who has to pull a steamship over a steep hill in order to access a rich rubber territory.
trailer of the movie "fitzcarraldo" (1982) with klaus kinski and claudia cardinale, directed by werner herzog
Matthew Picton’s most recent works are sculptures are made from texts or sheet music that are in some way significant to the city. Jerusalem (above and detailed below) is of The New Testament, The Torah, The Armenian Bible and The Koran; Las Vegas in 1972 is fluorescently painted pages from Hunter S Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Dresdenin 1945 using sheet music of the score of “The Ring” by Wagner; and Lower Manhattan from headlines that accompanied the 2001 World Trade center bombing and DVD covers of the film “Towering Inferno” also book covers of the novel The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, just to name a few.
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Others include the great fire of London, Venice, Moscow in 1812 (under the destruction by Napoleon), London during the Blitz, and Coventry.
Paper and papercraft are incredibly expressive and relatively easy, and in the hands of such masters as these... really impressive.
Designer Taras Lesko's build of a Pagani Zonda supercar. (the video includes loud music... so... be forewarned.)
2.5ft (76cm) long papercraft, inspired by one of my all time favorite super cars, the Pagani Zonda. Available for download in three stylish color variations, only at http://visualspicer.com/pagani-zonda-paper-super-craft/. Also find me and more of my creative work at: Website - http://visualspicer.com Facebook - http://facebook.com/visualspicer Twitter - http://twitter.com/visualspicer Thanks for watching.
German papercrafter Dimi created a full-sized Ford Mustang front end in his living room, using corrugated cardboard. (more awful music.)
Made in Germany :) Bitte Abonnieren und schreibt eure Meinungen Danke Song: Eminem - Till I Collapse
This one though, a full-sized, complete on the inside and out one, from artist Jonathan Brand.
Subscribe http://tinyurl.com/BarcroftTV twitter: https://twitter.com/Barcroft_TV Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BarcroftMedia This 1969 Ford Mustang could be ready to rev-up to the max except for one important problem--it is made entirely of paper. Reproduced in its entirety down to the nuts and bolts and made to full scale, the famous American muscle car is displayed with its parts separate, rather than in one single object.
Oklahoma-based artist Kelly Campbell Berry layers illustrations with snippets of text from the story to create a visual representation of the book.
Berry:
"I am truly amazed at the ability some people have to arrange words in such a way that we, the readers, can actually ‘see’ into the imagined world of the writer. We relate, feel, and become invested in the characters so deeply that we are pulled into their world for a brief moment of escape. My book sculptures are my way of showing what the words on the pages create in the imagination of the readers."
