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Ever wanted to walk through a 600 sq m honeycomb made of man-sized cardboard sheets? Or water sunflowers taller than you? Or eat a paper lobster or wear a paper dress? Read Papercraft: Design and Art with Paper and you'll see how that is all possible.
Paper comes to life in multiple forms in this book. Art installations, portraits of people, characters for music videos, 3D posters, miniature, life-size and larger-than-life cutouts of figures, people, animals and objects big and small, the book is chokeful of fun examples of what can be crafted with paper.
I've been fascinated by paper art for a while now and have written several posts on the subject. There are numerous works I recognize in Papercraft: Design and Art with Paper, including some from Jen Stark and Ferris Staverman, whom I've blogged about. There are also pieces from artists like Lisa Occhipinti and Brian Dettmar that I've pinned at Pinterest, so in some ways, this book was very familiar to me.
posts on paper art: Jen Stark art | paper cut art: Joe Bagley | VIDEOS: paper cut animation films
But there's a huge lot of other works that I was introduced to by this book. A wide variety of works is presented in terms of structures and format - there are ornaments, books, posters, installations, sculptures. Some are functional, others purely decorative; some are playful, others thought-provoking. What's for sure is nothing is boring or common. The works exude creativity - there's plenty to grab your attention and give you mind-boggling ideas of what can be created from such an innocent-looking flat material.
I wrote a review of Paper Engineering, another book on paper crafting by graphic designers, yesterday. I loved it especially for the design element. I love this book for the sheer multitude of paper crafts and works it showcases. Papercraft: Design and Art with Paper is like a 250-page mini muesum of paper art. My only complaint is there's very minimal information - if any at all - on the works and the artists. It's a bit like Pinterest and Tumblr, lots of inspiring stuff but scanty - or missing - information about their origins. Although I'm not there yet with this book (there's just so much that gets me going "wow"), I know it can get a bit frustrating despite the pleasure and admiration I feel. But I don't think that's going to stop me from trying to get my hands on volume 2. Papercraft 2: Design and Art with Paper was released earlier this year.
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Papercraft: Design and Art with Paper
Author: Robert Klanten
Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag
ISBN: 978-3899552515
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Papercraft 2: Design and Art with Paper
Author: Robert Klanten (April 30, 2011)
Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag
ISBN: 978-3899553338
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You may like my other posts on paper art
:: Jen Stark art
:: anastassia elias / isaac salazar
:: ariana boussard-reifel / ferry staverman / paper donut
:: VIDEOS: paper cut animation films
:: paper cut art: Joe Bagley
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[ check out my other posts on paper crafts ]
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