Artists have long shown to take their talents out into the street and transform it into a museum. We’ve literally seen it all, food photography, paper art, plastic installations or coffee portraits. But this time we got in touch with a truly amazing interdisciplinary artist, who combines the art of origami with photography and painting…
Paper art, paper art, paper art. Origami, collages or decoupage? Which one is it this time? Peter Callesen set his heart on decoupage and origami in his artworks. What’s rather unusual is his indifference towards colors. His working material is the blank paper. By taking away all the information and starting from scratch using the…
In the world of UK artists, art seems to revolve around books. Jonathan Callan is one of them. His art distinguished itself from the others because he uses books to create heterogeneous sculptures. Yet, they are fluid and homogeneous since they are made out of books that go through thick and thin to contort and pleasure…
Brian Dettmer makes a living with the knife, tweezers and surgical tools by performing minute but precise incisions into books. ‘The Book Surgeon’ is a nickname he acquired due to the nature of his works of art: amazing book sculptures. Unlike other artists that use fiction books to create their works, he only uses predominantly…
Book and sculpture seem to be the petals of the same art flower. And those art flowers find a very fertile soil in the UK apparently. Yvette Hawkins is one of the young British artists that does more than fold paper, she creates art. She folds paper and binds it together to create decorations and…
From the series of written paper art comes another artist that deals with paper and words. But if Su Blackwell is a reader, Keira Rathbone is a writer. She typewrites all her works of art. At first, if you see her works from a distance (both in real life and on virtual media) nothing strikes…
Remember Su Blackwell’s artistic books? When I first saw them I almost fell in love; they contain two of the things I personally couldn’t live without: books and art. And lately, her art seeped even in advertising. Photo from Wonderful Photos She started out by cutting out characters from old books and creating dioramas. But…
Karen M. O’Leary is the name of the artist who designed these wrought street maps of different metropolises. While their size may vary depending on the size of the city, usually these maps are made from the same material, a thick white watercolor paper (90-100 lb., textured surface, rough edge) cut with an x-acto blade, a…
Two artschool grads from Nancy, France had a terrific idea to create old electronic items out of paper. Be it a cassette, a walkman, an old telephone or a Nintendo controller, these things are just so colorful and well-made that you wish they were real. Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann, who’ve studied graphic design and…