YouTube Tuesday

Every so often you just see something that leaves you speechless.

The Japanese Tradition: Origami

Halloween CardBoy

Here's a Halloween treat from Mark James. Halloween themed CardBoys. All three designs will be available in the next couple of days. Get yours at www.cardboy.tv.

Tactile: High Touch Visuals

I received something rather special in the mail today. Tactile is a new hardcover book from art book publishers Die Gestalten exploring current innovations in spatial graphic design and sculpture. It is beautifully presented with 208 pages of full colour photographs.

So why should this concern you, dear reader? Well, for a start this book is basically a who's who of cutting edge paper artists. All the current crop of people are here including Richard Sweeney, Jen Stark, Peter Callesen, Hiroko Ohmori, Simon Elvins, Bert Simons, Undoboy, even yours truly.. to name just a few.

If you enjoy the kind of artists we feature regularly on Paper Forest, I highly recommend you pick yourself up a copy.

Jen Stark's work featured above.

With Movable Jaw!

m'kay, I didn't see this posted to the Forest and I think that between it nearly being Halloween and readers of the Forest seeming to LOVE timely cool paper toy assembly, Paper Peeps, I link to you... Skull-a-Day (found via Mary Robinette Kowal's blog.

Amy Earles

It's hard to remember a time before Flickr. This little photo sharing site is a contant source of amazement and inspiration for me. Well, here's another little gem I discovered a while back. This collection of paper dolls is the work of Amy Earles aka Wool and Water.

Amy's exquisite posable characters seem to have sprung from a surreal fairy tale world. They have a beautiful yet melancholic quality that is hard to resist.

You might also like to check out Amy's blog and Etsy page.

Laura Cooperman

Laura Cooperman is just 23 yet her delicate paper sculptures are already receiving a great deal of acclaim. Laura's background in architecture is clearly evident; her web-like creations hang suspended in space like wireframe CAD drawings come to life.

Brian Dettmer's Book Autopsies

This really should have been included in my round-up of book related art, but what the heck it deserves it's own post.

Brian Dettmer takes old books and surgically dissects them to reveal their insides. The result is his series of fascinating three-dimensional book sculptures.

The victorian era drawings and anatomical and scientific diagrams all help to convey a sense of early scientific discovery, alluding to the once common practice of cutting things open in order to see how they work.

It's rare when such a simple idea and execution come together to create something that is more than the sum of its parts.

Via centripetalnotion.com

Recortables political papercraft.

Recortables offer free really well designed and crafted politically inspired papercrafts from Spain. You'll find Bush, the Pope, The King of Spain and more. Warning not for fans of Bush, the Pope, and the King of Spain. Usually papercrafts are robots and anime characters and other light hearted stuff, it's kind of cool to see some one expressing their political views through this medium.

Dreamland by Undoboy

Remember Undoboy? Well he has been busy working on this wonderful set of wall graphics, apparently a commissioned work.

His Dreamland wall decals consist of 160 unique icons that can be arranged in any configuration. Here is a time lapse video of him at work on an installation.

I think these really are rather gorgeous. We particularly like the 'rainbow poops' here at Paper Forest.

Thanks Undoboy for sending this my way!

Warped Wallpaper

There are some exciting things happening in the world of wallpaper these days. Many designers seem to have rediscovered pattern, and in this new century, new ways of using it.

German outfit Surrealien produces a range of wall coverings that actually warps to accommodate the fittings and objects it surrounds. Windows, doors and switches provide distortion points, that have the visual effect of magnets, somehow pulling and transforming the pattern.

The generated images are printed at 190 dpi on professional wallpaper stripes made of fleece. I would imagine some careful consultation with the designers is required before redoing your whole house with this.

Grumm

Meet Grumm a new "Urban Papercraft" Matthijs C. Kamstra. You can download Grumm the Screemer Red as well as a blank version from the MCK blog here.
I found Grumm on a list of top 10 Paper Toys for Adults by Happysucks.com.