MetaFilter posts tagged with paper and art

It's real! You can touch it!

You Should See the Other Guy — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:49:17 -0800

Remember Paper is a blog with photos of interesting magazines, books, and other paper-based ephemera. NSFW.

Folded Paper Sculptures

OmieWise — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:59:37 -0800

Polyscene--Folded paper, and paper and wire, sculptures. There are more in the artist's Flickr stream.

Sit Down, Print Out, Cut Up & Fold On

mattdidthat — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:10:29 -0800

President Obama pencil topper. Olympic Mayor Daley. Parachuting Rod Blagojevich.(Acrobat PDF) Mayor Daley Parking Meter.(Acrobat PDF) Paper sculptures by illustrator and animation artist Joe Fournier.

Simon Schubert: In Apnoesie

gman — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:40:01 -0800

2D artwork created by 'simply' folding paper. By German artist Simon Schubert

Poo.

cjorgensen — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:18:05 -0800

A new use for Poo. (via.) Related uses: Poo. Poo. Poo. Poo. Poo. Poo. Coffee Poo: Poo. Poo.

Cut it out...

seagull.apollo — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:52:07 -0800

Paper cutout animation is repetitive, time consuming work. Results, however, can be well worth it. (SLYT)

Construction Paper Feelings

Orb — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:56:50 -0800

"What the autistic 12-year-old can't express verbally or in social interaction he can show through his carefully cut out geometric shapes assembled into characters in a paper collage."

Maybe More Than One Sheet of Paper, But Still

mygothlaundry — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:44:50 -0800

I got a forwarded email this morning purporting to be images from a contestat the Hirshhorn “Modern Art Gallery” in DC. The images were pretty cool; I’m not the only one who thought so. Just one thing, it turns out there was no contest and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has no connection that I could find with the artist, Peter Calleson. Still, however you find it, the work is well worth a look.

Heaps and Heaps of Origami Designs.

Effigy2000 — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:27:35 -0800

Got some spare time? Then let's learn origami! Check out this large collection of origami designs (suitable for beginners too), and here's some instructional origami videos to help you along.

Not your mother's origami

salishsea — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:16:58 -0800

Paper sculpture from Richard Sweeney. (More MeFi paper sculpture from Cooperman and Callesen)

A single sheet of paper, folded many times

aeschenkarnos — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:04:34 -0800

Eric Joisel may be the greatest living origami artist. Here is how he does it. Here is a short documentary about him.

intricate silhouettes

nickyskye — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:03:33 -0800

Beatrice Coron is a paper cutting artist, who has a wonderful collection of paper cutting links, including images of her own work, the extraordinary cut paper art of Hina Aoyama, Kako Ueda, Masaaki Tatsumi, Virginia Rose Kane, Drew King, Rick Jones, Andrea Dezsö, Bette Burgoyne, Justine Smith and papercutting art from around the world. Included are links to some stencils, like the architectural trompe l'oeil ones by Jeff Raum. Comprehensive info about Chinese folk paper cutting styles (and other Chinese folk art). Erotic silhouettes by Mongolian paper cut artist Turburam.

cut and paste

nickyskye — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:44:54 -0800

Ophelia Chong's beautiful collages: Slips of Paper, surreal cereal, moleskine et al, ReMade and more, all Flickr sets. Her likeable blog.

cutting and folding, no glue

nickyskye — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:13:40 -0800

Kirigami is an ingenius way of cutting and folding paper, creating designs in many styles, often with a captivating simplicity. Some are like geometric lace, some are marvelous 3-D modular, while some are amazing architectural creations.

Destruction as creation.

dobbs — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:02:31 -0800

"Georgia Russell is a Scottish artist who uses a scalpel instead of a brush or a pen. She works with obsessive perserverance to create constructions that transform found ephemera, such as books, music scores, maps, newspapers, currency and photographs." Samples here. {via design dna}

Laura Cooperman Carves Paper Into Art

jonson — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:50:35 -0800

Like the much mefi'd Peter Callesen, Laura Cooperman carves up plain white paper into extremely gorgeous intricate designs. Sadly, outside of her primary website not many examples of her work can be found online.

Papercuts

bob sarabia — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:30:36 -0800

Peter Callesen - Lately I have been working almost only with white paper in different objects, paper cut, installations and performances.

The Toymaker: "Make toys! Play more!"

taz — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 02:23:46 -0800

The Toymaker offers over 40 free paper toys and pretties you can print out (PDFs) and make yourself, as well as "Stories to be Told by Firelight" - online versions of author/illustrator Marilyn Scott Waters' children's stories and lots of other fun goodies. For people who have kids, people who know kids, people who are kids, and people who love papercraft, illustration, toys, and tales. [more...]

Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls

hama7 — Sat, 06 Dec 2003 18:09:34 -0800

Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls.

the meaning of life, revealed in paper plates

taz — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 05:18:38 -0800

Astonishing geometric art using only folded paper plates, from Bradford Hansen-Smith at wholemovement. View the gallery of fantastic polyhedral creations, and learn how to do it yourself. (For more fun with paper plates, see also Paper Plate Education: Serving the Universe on a Paper Plate.)

iconomy — Mon, 25 Mar 2002 07:13:06 -0800

Hey guys, want to play with some manly paper dolls...er, I mean manly paper action figures? You do? Rev up your printers and sharpen your scissors, then. You can download and play with your very own Elvis or Ziggy Stardust, or maybe Billy Ray Cyrus, The Dead Milkmen's PunkRockEr, Bob Dylan, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Oliver from Green Acres, Professor Henry Higgins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks' Mr. Brown, the fetching dual poses of Mr. Humphries from "Are You Being Served?", Brave Colonists From Mars, Trekkies, Luke Skywalker and his tons of cool duds, Dylan Hunt from Andromeda, Tom Sawyer, Hercule Poirot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Neil Gaiman's Morpheus, Monet's Young John, or Diego Rivera. (more inside >>>)