Papercraft: Woven Masks

Woven Masks by Kansas-based origami artist Joel Cooper
Original pieces available for purchase from Etsy. 

Joel Cooper creates awesomely intricate three-dimensional masks and geometric shapes, each using a single sheet of paper. In keeping with origami tradition, no cutting or glue is used to make these paper sculptures. Some of his pieces are hand-painted, dyed, or stained both before and after the complex folding process. As a final touch, each piece is treated with polyurethane, acrylic or shellac to make it sturdy enough to display. 

Papercraft: Revealed Star

"Revealed Star Designed" by Valentina V. Gonchar

If you like geometric origami, you have to check out Gonchar's Tumblr and Youtube accounts.  This lady has some serious paper-folding skills.  I love origami, but as with assembled Lego sets, I'm never sure what to do with the complete projects.  I guess you could set a few of these is a bowl on your coffee table.  Aside from that I'm not sure.  Leave a comment below to tell us what you do with your origami.

"A really fun transforming model that’s easy to make. I did glue this one together because I wanted people to be able to play around with it without it falling apart."

Papercraft: Nguyễn Hùng Cường

Incredible Origami Animals by Nguyễn Hùng Cường

Hanoi-based paper artist Nguyễn Cường lives creates his original origami pieces from a handmade Vietnamese paper known as Dó. In an interview with All Things Paper, he says that he first got into paper art at the early age of five but that  he hasn't embraced origami as his full-time career, despite the fact that his work has been featured in numerous books and magazine feature on the art.

Papercraft: Origami Street Art

Origami Street Art by Mademoiselle Maurice
Photographed at the 2013 ARTAQ Festival in Angers, France.

Requiring over 30,000 folded components, the artist relied on help from school children and people living in nearby “leisure centers” to help complete all of the pieces in time for installation.

Link Round-Up: December 20, 2012

Paper Star Origami Tutorials:

1. Window star 2. 3D folded star 3. Star lantern

4. Dimensional stars in a faceted vase 5. Origami stars 6. Puff Star

 
Alex Cornell published Breakthrough!, a book compiling strategies for combating creative block. Advice is offered by a who’s who of leading graphic designers, typographers, cartoonists, photographers, illustrators, musicians, writers, and other creative professionals. One of the lines that stood out to me in the book, while flipping through the pages was by Ben Barry’s advice: “A deadline is always the best cure.”

Browse the Behance Network based on Pantone Colors.

Casetagram allows you to create your personalized iPhone case – created with your own Instagram pics.

Design Tip: Never Use Black

Phil Plait presents the Best Astronomy Images of 2012.

Short Film: Origami

Origami (2012) from ESMA MOVIES

A young boy spends time with his grandfather and the difference between the generations cannot be more marked. Yet combining skill and imagination is something that cannot happen without inspiration and the young boy must take a journey in to his mind’s eye to connect both to his art and his grandfather.

Paper Craft: Paper Crane Chandelier

Chandelier of 5700 Paper Cranes

Sculpture: Nerd Can Origami

“Empty Can Craft” by Japanese Artist Makaon

Makaon re-creates pop-culture icons out of aluminum cans.

   

   

Papercraft: Origami Street Art

Origami Street Art by French artist Mademoiselle Maurice

Maurice creates stunning geometric street art on urban surfaces throughout Paris using rainbows of tiny, folded origami figures.  The art is composed of hundreds of colorful origami figures glued to walls and fences. 

Link Round-Up: April 17, 2012

"Cthulhugami" by Miguel Romero

Chad Person is Making Art With Money. Cutting up dollar bills and rearranging them in collages, he’s created these imposing images of military hardware, from aircraft carriers to pistols.

N.C. Winters Turns Pop Culture Heroes into Religious Icons

Timeline of 20th Centure Art and New Media

'What If' Thomas Perkins Art Imagines Obscure Heroes in 'Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes'

Street Art: Banksy on the Riverbank

Banksy on the Riverbank

Photographed by thelonelyvillein 

People are crediting this new piece that just popped up in the U.K. to Banksy, though it's authenticity hasn't been confirmed as of yet.

Link Round-Up: March 2, 2012

Money Pieces by Kristi Malakoff

33 photos of Recycling Around the World, some beautiful, some sad.

Here's how to build your own life-sized Aperture Science turret. I'm assuming they'll post the plans for the slug-throwing mechanism later?

In 1976, American students put their Tricentennial imaginings to paper. Some larger versions of the drawings are available over at Buzzfeed.

Ridiculously cute comic book fan art by Turkish artist Riza Turker. If that's too saccharine, browse his comicbook fanart for other looks beyond the cutesy "super deformed" style. 

Shouldn't Davros or The Emperor Dalek be center stage in The Last Supper of the Daleks?

Papercraft: Origami Masks

Gnome King 2

Paper artist Joel Cooper folds these astounding masks and tessellations from single pieces of paper. Given the right conditions I might be expected to fold a piece of paper in half, and on a good day even into fourths, but I simply can’t fathom the patience and understanding required to transform paper into three-dimensional objects like this. You can see more of his work on Flickr and even buy some of the pieces on Etsy.

Papercraft: Insect Origami

 

Insect Origami by Brian Chan

 

 

 

Papercraft: Santagami

Santa Claus by Takeda Naoki

Project: World Tree of Hope

The World Tree of Hope

Every December, the Rainbow World Fund (RWF), the only international humanitarian aid organization based out of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community, erects an enormous Christmas tree in the Rotunda of San Francisco City Hall.  They decorate the tree with thousands upon thousands of small origami cranes inscribed with the hopes and wishes of participants around the country.

According to RWF Founder Jeff Cotter, "The World Tree of Hope joins together individuals of diverse cultures, points of view, spiritual beliefs, socioeconomic backgrounds and sexual identities, and taps into two of our most powerful resources – the human mind and heart – to give individuals a way to join together to express our hopes and intentions for the future of our global community."

Visit The Rainbow Fund to have your wish for the world inscribed on an origami crane and placed on the World Tree of Hope in San Francisco's City Hall.

Papercraft: Starcraft Origami

Amazing StarCraft Origami

Papercraft: Beetle Origami

This paper beetle was designed and folded by Shuki Kato from a single 22″ square of tracing paper and boasts a ten-inch wingspan. Check out the rest of his work on Flickr.

Project: Japan Earthquake Relief

Shortly after the Japan earthquake the nonprofit Bezos Family Foundation invited children from around the world to mail origami cranes to its Seattle headquarters, promising to donate $2 per crane to the relief efforts, up to to $200,000. A few days later a truck arrived filled with thousands of cranes. And then another truck. And then another. Eventually over 2,000,000 cranes arrived at the steps of the non-profit and the organization doubled its donation. Now, Brooklyn-based Brazilian artist Vik Muniz has been tasked with taking the cranes and making something incredible with them. Above, an image from the New York Times Magazine shows the progress of his meta paper crane mosaic made of paper cranes made from math homework, hall passes, love letters, Saran wrap, Kleenex, candy wrappers, and restaurant menus. Astounding!

Via: hyperallergic, ny times magazine

Papercraft: Tiny Oragami

Paper artist Anja Markiewicz folds these impossibly small origami pieces using sheets of paper smaller than an inch in width.