Scherenschnitte

Master paper cutter, Cindy Ferguson of  Scherenschnitte,  (the art of paper cutting design [pronounced Sharon-sh-net, if German or Sharon-sh-net-ah if Swiss] which is German for "scissor cuts") has announced that she has new eight paper cut projects featured in the eminent new paper cut book release called "Paper Cuts: 35 Inventive Projects"which looks pretty paper-cutting-good to me. I especially love how Cindy made her intricate and charming Alice in Wonderland tea party paper cut interlocking so that it stands alone! Exquisite paper cutting work as always, Cindy.

Layered paper work by Charles Clary

Awesome layered paper work of Charles Clary. Check out his blog for more pics of his work.

Infinitely Generous

 

Toymaker and illustrator, Marilyn Scott Waters, has been creating marvelous paper toys and sharing them freely for many years. Today I got word that she's made some of her lovely watercolor art into two pdfs free for the download so that we can all make an Infinity Card.

If you're not familiar with Infinity Cards, they are one of my personal all time favorite paper card mechanisms and are really quite magical to see in person. To make it even sweeter, they are super simple to construct. No kidding. It's just four strips glued at four corners, making a two-sided square, that flips open in panel combination after panel combination.

I've made several of them myself as art pieces, where I've made wording on each panel combine to reveal meaning no matter which way the panels are flipped. I highly recommend trying to make a few to see how fun they can be for yourself. And Marilyn's gift might be an endlessly helpful introduction.

(PS: no pressure, strictly if you're moved to, she's not asking, if you do make one and enjoy it, a small donation to Marilyn's Paypal will help pay for bandwidth so she can continue to provide free toys for children all over the world! Look at the type of things she's been giving, clicking on "toys" shows the rest.)

Heels and Zimerman Paper Toys and iPhone Dock

Heels and Zimerman is a creative Apparel and Skateboard company with a love of and talent for art. They have some free paper toys on their site, and have recently collaborated with Julien Maderou (previously posted on Paper Forest) to customize his paper craft iPhone doc with illustration. Check out the site by clicking here.

UPS Store Commercial "A Happy Holiday"

is a brilliant cardboard animation with pop-up effects. You can see some more UPS cardboard ads, check the neighborvideos on Youtube !

Commercial Video of Langara College

Advertising for a scholarship for aspiring art directors or graphic designers with a playful
book with some interesting movement effects.

Milk Gone Mad papertoy show

There is a papertoy show opening tomorrow in Turkey at Milk.
Featuring:
Derin Çiler ( Mekazoo, shown above) Dolly Oblong, Alexander Gwynne, Anıl Tortop, Bengi Gençer, Buğra Bayrak, Burak Şentürk, Çağrı Akyurt, 2mikrop,), Fatih Yılmaz, Uçman Balaban, Dyadic, Duygu Esentürk, Rüya Ögü, Ece Diçmen, Eric Wirjanata, Esra Arıcı, Gemma Correll, Japi Honoo, Luke Glood, Michael C. Hsiung, Milkyhead, Olcayto Cengiz, Pamela Halomoan, Sadi Tekin, Sernur Işık, Toygun Özdemir, Yusuf Gençer.
The piece above, Galacto 01 Cardboard Mecha (13”) is by Mekazoo.

Forwards or Backwards: Which Way Do You 3D?

images and content © Jayme McGowan

Really exceptional 3-Dimensional Illustrator, Jayme McGowan, gives an interesting interview to 3D Illio showcase site, Working in the 3rd Dimension

In it, she describes her process as sketch > cut paper > gluing layers until her illustrations are rich in depth and texture. Conversely, I just read on Robert Sabuda's site from student pop-up designer, Jemma Westing, that she creates her original pop-ups in reverse of that. Jemma starts with white paper to shape what the finished dimensional figure should look like and then... Well, I'll let her describe it:

"When designing a Pop, I work backwards! I have an idea and just start sticking pieces of paper together with masking tape, learning about the constraints of my design as I go. I then start to make the design as efficient as I can-this might be as simple as realizing that the 3 pieces I have stuck together could be cut down to just 1 piece instead. I try to do the same with the glue spots too."

Even though each artist has their personal technique preference, I find it interesting to think that each form of 3D paper art has its own directional approach. It wouldn't do to try engineering a pop-up from the specific pieces to the general action, nor would it work well to create a box construction from the general shapes to the specific pieces.

Which way to you 3D?

(link via Sven at Scarlet Star Studios)

"Jeux t'aime" by Eric Singelin a.o.

It's a new popupbook (33x33cm!) by the french paper engineer Eric Singelin with illustrations by Camille Mermet and photos from Bernard Matussière. (Les editions Tana)

The whole french scene (popupbooks makers, publishers and enthusiasts) had a meeting on a WE last december in Paris. Here you can see a lot of pictures of this meeting and here more.

Coiled Stories:Helen Musselwhite's charming paper displays

I love the way these charming scenes draw the viewer into them. Bringing us into their enchanting world of storybook layers.

Helen Musselwhite has been in the Forest twice before with posts from my cohorts, but Ulla just featured something new Helen's been doing that I thought you all should see and enjoy.


She's taken her delicate, marvelous, storybook-style paper cuts and coiled them on themselves, making a 360º scene placed under over-sized glass bell jars. It's not only wonderful examples of paper art, but a fresh dimensional way to display paper pieces.

Saelee Oh's Paper Art

An accomplished gallery painter, Saelee Oh also uses paper and X-acto knives to create her dreamlike art. You can see more images on her website, or if you are in New York City (or close enough) she has an opening this weekend at the prestigious Jonathan Levine Gallery!

Paper Dolls @ Fifty24LA Gallery

A little heads up for all you LA folks on an exhibition that might be of interest.

COCHAE

for instance 'funny face origami',

one design allows a lot of different folding solutions

"Cochae" is a group of 3 japanese graphic designers for origami objects. They developes her figures combining old techniques with new design (thanks DESIGNBOOM).

Curiosity Group Papercraft Video

Check out this great little papercraft video by the Curiosity Group.
Paper always looks great in stop motion and this piece is really charming.

The Curious Dream– From Flat to Flight from Cre8tivegirl on Vimeo.

Update! You can download your very own elephant here.

Hi PF Community !

Many thanks to Jaime, who invited me for writing in this great paper art related blog.
Apologize my sometimes incorrect English. I hope you understand in this case all I have to say from the context.
My main interest is related to all mechanical artwork and as a former d&t-teacher I prefer the materials wood and paper . I have a collection of media about it and I'm an author at professional journals and of a book titled "Mechanische Spielobjekte und Automaten", Hugendubel,1987. The whole spectrum of my topics you can see in my german blog "Spiel und Kunst mit Mechanik":
http://kugelbahn.blog.de/ . You will see paper mechanics are only a little part of all. I like to see much comments, so we get a lively exchange of informations.

And here the first contribution.
4 weeks ago was in Paris the "2e Salon du livre animé" . In this blog you can find a lot of photos
with much popupbook artists showing his newest artwork and dummies.

Greets from Germany
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