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December 15, 2018
Paper Gift Guide
December 16, 2018
Paper of the Week: BookLove
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On Paper Talk:
Rachel Hazell is also my guest on Paper Talk this month. Have a listen as we discuss how she spends her time between Edinborough and the isle of Iona in Scotland. Rachel’s website is The Travelling Bookbinder, and you’ll soon hear why that is as we discuss how she teaches five or so workshops in cities around the world (Venice, Iona, Paris anyone)? These sound absolutely delightful – I’ve seen photos of some of the book and paper shops she frequents. Rachel is perhaps the first book artist to offer an online class – you’ll hear about her two popular courses: Paper Love and Book Love as we chat about some of the advantages of taking an online class. And we talk about Rachel’s brand new book: Bound: 15 Beautiful Bookbinding Projects. Enjoy our conversation!
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FREE SHIPPING THROUGH TODAY! I put together a Paper Gift Guide that gives you an overview of the paper-related products and services that are available on my site (some are free, yay)! These offerings range from films and how-to books, to this blog and my podcast Paper Talk, to a selection of my artist’s books, my upcoming online workshop Weave Through Winter and the only event in my own studio, the annual Red Cliff Paper Retreat. Take a peek, and if you make a purchase today, you’ll receive FREE SHIPPING!
As seen on Creative Boom, Canadian artist Andrew Ooi cuts, creases, paints, folds and fits hundreds to thousands of paper pieces individually by hand to create artworks that inspire “notions of time, meaning, and meaning over time”.
The Morgan Conservatory is an amazing paper facility in Cleveland, OH. They are currently collecting submissions for their 7th annual national juried exhibition. Find out how to apply here. Deadline is Feb 3, 2019.
Need a last minute gift bag for holiday wrapping? Alisa Burke shows how to take it up a notch by turning a brown paper gift bag into a personalized package!
My upcoming Weave Through Winter class is open for registration and 20 brave souls have already signed up to create a daily practice as we explore a variety of papers and weaving techniques. Join us and commit to 30 minutes of creativity a day (more or less); Challenge yourself to share what you create (there will be prizes)!; Stimulate your mind by finding, mixing and matching papers and find satisfaction in the ordinary while creating something extraordinary. I have a really good feeling about this class; we are going to learn so much from each other!
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December 8, 2018
Weave Through Winter
December 9, 2018 (Happy Birthday to my dear hubby)!
Paper of the Week: Paper Weaving
I’m super excited to announce my new online class which will debut in the New Year. In the Weave Through Winter classroom, we’ll be creating a daily practice as we explore a variety of papers and weaving techniques. Commit to 30 minutes of creativity a day (more or less); challenge yourself to share what you create (there will be prizes!); stimulate your mind by finding, mixing and matching papers; and find satisfaction in the ordinary while creating something extraordinary. Class begins on January 16th, 2019 and you can watch a short video, read all about it, and register here. Feel free to share this info with your friends (you could take the class together)!
In the Studio:
I am approaching the end of a long journey! I have been making paper for my new artist’s book Prism for months (granted, it would be long finished if I made paper on a more regular basis). There are still many facets to figure out, but I’m excited to debut a copy at Codex. Vamp & Tramp will have it at their table (my last book, Tangential, happens to be featured on their website right now).
Papery Tidbits:
The 2019 Twelve Months of Paper How-To Book & Calendar makes a great holiday gift!
Here’s a fun origami envelope design.
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This is a clever idea (and I hope the artists are gaining something from it). The Arizona Daily Star is presenting 12 days or wrapping paper; each day’s paper is by a local artist. Each paper that has been published is downloadable as a PDF that you can print. I think I would just print it and gift it, rather than risk it being recycled with the rest of the gift wrap!
Here’s some fantastic paper illustration. Click through to watch the animation!
Here’s another use for that artist-designed wrapping paper! Two aspiring Irish designers (students at the Galway Technical Institute) put their skills to the test when they were tasked with creating a paper dress for the Galmont Hotel in the city.
I enjoyed a lecture on the history of Hallmark pop-ups at the Movable Book Society’s conference in Kansas City this fall (where the Hallmark headquarters are located – the visitor’s center is worth a trip!) Have you seen their new paper wonder cards?
Sadly, Robert Rainwater, a curator and art historian who oversaw an expansion of the New York Public Library’s holdings in modern and contemporary prints, artist-made books and printed ephemera from the 1970s onward, died on Nov. 13. Rainwater curated an important exhibition at the NYPL called On Paper: The History of an Art, in 1990, just before I discovered paper. It featured holdings from the Leonard B. Schlosser Collection on the History of Papermaking. I have visited the collection to do research (by appointment), and I encourage you to do this, too!
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December 1, 2018
Paper In The News
December 2, 2018
Paper of the Week: Crumpled Paper
Paper has been in the New York Times a couple of times recently. Here’s an article about a scientist’s research about the math behind how paper crumples (although if you read the article carefully, his experiments were with a mylar substrate rather than real paper). I’m reminded of the Japanese technique paper called momigami, a crumpled (or kneaded) paper. Traditionally, Japanese papers are coated with konnyaku paste (made from a tuberous root of the devil’s tongue plant of the Arum genus) and then crumpled and used like cloth to create book covers or clothing. This photo shows two experimental sheets I created with my own handmade sheets of abaca paper. I coated the dry sheets with konnyaku powder that I purchased from Washi Arts and crumpled them to create this leathery looking paper.
In the Studio:
I have a thing for paper trees, especially during the holiday season. Here’s a project I designed for the 2017 Twelve Months of Paper How-To Book & Calendar. I think it’s extra fun if you make it with a double-sided paper, because it is reversible! Click through to get the instructions and watch a video tutorial on how to make yourself a tree (or a forest).
Papery Tidbits:
The 2019 Twelve Months of Paper How-To Book & Calendar makes a great holiday gift!
Did you have a chance to listen to my podcast interview with Laurence Barker yet?
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Matthew Shlian never ceases to amaze. I featured his work in the gallery section of my book Playing With Paper. Here’s some of his work on This Is Colossal. I love this statement by Shlian: “My process is extremely varied from piece to piece. Often I start without a clear goal in mind, working within a series of limitations. For example on one piece I’ll only use curved folds, or make my lines this length or that angle, etc. Other times I begin with an idea for movement and try to achieve that shape or form somehow.”
“Unholy 112”
This is a fascinating article about collage artist Sara Caswell Pierce who is taking deaccessioned books and turning them into works of art in an artist residency she created when she heard that these books were the books were going to be discarded.
Palais Populaire is a new museum in Berlin. The World on Paper is the museum’s inaugural exhibition.
Photo: Courtesy of Palais Populaire/David von Becker
I wrote a guest blog tutorial for StencilGirl Talk this past week, showing you how to use paper cutting to turn an envelope into a light catcher.
This article in The New York Times is a review of the state of paper in Japan in the technological era. Three bits caught my eye: the description about how paper is made (a bit clumsily described, although understandable from a novice), the description of the lunar opacity of shoji screens (that’s genius) and this last sentence: “The paper bears an imprint, of the maker and eventually of the user, in a way no digital object ever can. For this reason, those pale, fringed sheets retain a measure of the time, and the sense of self, we are always losing as we rush heedlessly into the future.” So true!
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November 24, 2018
Holiday Weekend SPECIAL!
November 18, 2018
Paper(maker) of the Week: Laurence Barker
I recently interviewed Laurence Barker on Paper Talk. Barker is an influencer in the field of Hand Papermaking. Born in 1930, Barker went to Principia College and got his MFA from Cranbrook, where he also ended up teaching from 1960 – 1970 and ran the first classes in hand papermaking at the college level in the US. Several students (and others who visited that studio) went on to become luminaries in the field of hand papermaking. A theme that came up time and again during our conversation was the way Barker followed his intuition. After college, he wrote to Stanley Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris about the potential of studying with him. He never heard back, but he went to Paris, looked up Hayter, and he was able to study with him! Later, he wrote a letter to Dard Hunter asking whether he knew of a beater he might use to set up a papermaking studio at Cranbrook, and Dard Hunter found one for him! And after reading James Michener’s book Iberia, which describes Spain as a place centered around the book, Barker surmised that printing would follow the book, so he moved overseas and started a papermaking studio in Spain. And he was right! Enjoy our conversation.
In the Studio:
My Black Friday – Cyber Monday sale is happening now. If you haven’t purchased your 12 Months of Paper Calendar (of if you need to stock up on papery holiday gifts) there’s no time like the present! When you order this set, you get to choose a gift (valued at $25):
Gift #1: An additional calendar (a unique holiday gift)
Gift #2: An extra paper pack (get together with a friend and create together)
Gift #3: A copy of my book Playing With Paper (15 more paper projects to enjoy)
Papery Tidbits:
In case you don’t receive my monthly newsletter, I’d love to share my Thanksgiving note with you.
Check out what’s happening over in Club Paper!
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Poposition Press is an independent book publisher in Boulder, CO. Here’s their newest book, One Thousand and One Handbags, a pop up book collaboration between best selling author and paper engineer David A. Carter and acclaimed Dutch shoe and handbag designer Hester van Eeghen. There’s a pre-order special through 12/15!
Here’s an interesting substrate for drawing – paper cups! Shin Moon-sub frequents coffee shops and makes two illustrated cups, giving one to the cafe.
Six of Moon’s more than 100 coffee cup drawings. From left: Manufact Coffee Roasters in Apgujeong-dong, southern Seoul; Toby’s Estate in New York; Fritz in Mapo District, western Seoul; Cafe Grumpy in New York; New York Coffee Week; and Stumptown Coffee Roasters in New York. [PARK SANG-MOON]
Daria Aksenova uses paper to tell stories of mythology and folklore. Each compact, 3D composition is made from layers of suspended hand-cut and inked paper, meticulously arranged inside decorative box frames.
“A Cautionary Tale” © Daria Aksenova
This is a fascinating story about Robert Salazar, an artist, scientist and activist who uses his skills to solve problems in space as well as in promoting sustainability and awareness of key issues that impact world wildlife.
Origami artist Robert Salazar is a contractor at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) where he designs deployable structures to assist space telescopes in searching for life among the stars. Salazar is the designer behind the origami patterns for the Starshade project, which creates artificial eclipses to help spot planets beyond the solar system. – PHOTO COURTESY OF ROBERT SALAZAR
Check it out! A paper animation film fest (and you can watch them all on youtube)!
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November 17, 2018
A Crash Course in Papermaking
November 18, 2018
Paper of the Week: Handmade Paper
Papermaking workshop in Sheila Nakitende’s Studio. Photo by Women’s Studio Workshop, via Flickr.
I recently wrote A Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Own Paper for Artsy. It seems to me that there is an uptick in the interest in handmade paper, especially in making it yourself. I still think that selling it is trickier, because there must be supply in order to create demand. If you make and sell handmade paper goods, I’d love to know about you (if I don’t already)!
In the Studio:
Speaking of handmade paper, I’ve created my last round of bubble paper – it’s time to put a new watermark on the mould! In the meantime, I have a few sets of these 5 sheets that can be turned into a set of these luminaria. They’re in my online paper shop. If you purchase a set, I’ll send you the link to a short video I made that shows you how to cut, fold and assemble this simple form (it’s a bit different than you might think).
This is the September project in the Twelve Months of Paper How-To Book & Calendar
Papery Tidbits:
I’m having a Black Friday – Cyber Monday sale online! Sign up for my monthly newsletter to be notified on Black Friday, or you’ll hear about it here next Sunday.
The Twelve Months of Paper Make-Along is happening now. Join me November 9 – 20th over on instagram and facebook; follow along and watch each project in the Twelve Months of Paper How-To Book & Calendar unfold.
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What a fascinating story about letter locks and Jana Dambrogio, the Thomas F. Peterson conservator at MIT Libraries, who has been studying them for the past decade. If only we still wrote letters!
Jana Dambrogio holds an “unlocked” letter model. ALL PHOTOS: COURTESY OF UNLOCKING HISTORY MATERIALS COLLECTION, U.S.A. & U.K.
Godspeed Branding has produced these unusual ‘masks of modern fears’, a series of masks that reflect contemporary fears.
‘Fear of Total Pollution’
I have long admired the work of Elsa Mora. She has an exhibition at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, Oregon through January 20, 2019. There’s an amazing story behind her work, and I highly recommend that you listen to her artist talk, which you’ll find on this page.
As seen on This is Colossal: Japanese paper engineer Haruki Nakamura continues to design delightful paper toys using simple materials. This friendly armadillo curls into a self-protective ball at the touch of a finger. Click through – there are more!
Check out this video of a pop-up book created by Simon Arizpe that shows off the best books of 2018 by Book World Reviewers. Very cool!
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November 10, 2018
The Gift of Water via Paper
November 11, 2018
Paper of the Week: Trinity’s School Project
Yesterday I received this photograph from 8-year old Trinity Adam’s mother Deb, showing her school project about her family’s non-profit Paper For Water. The 6 boxes on the sides of the presentation are filled with projects Trinity created from the Twelve Months of Paper How-To Book & Calendar. Trinity designed the project in the upper right box, an origami candy dish.
Here’s what the last paragraph on that presentation board says:
“Helen Hiebert chose my origami creation called “The Candy Dish” to put in her calendar called the Twelve Months of Paper. When she learned that my sisters and I run a non-profit called Paper For Water that brings water and the Word to the Thirsty, Ms. Hiebert said that for each calendar that sells, she will donate $5 to help with our water project on the Smith Lake Navajo Reservation in New Mexico up to $5,000!!! If you think your children might need some crafts to do over the Christmas Holidays and into 2019, why don’t you buy a calendar for them and help more people in the USA get access to clean water?”
Friends, can you help me help Trinity get more water to the Smith Lake Navajo Reservation? I’m sending a monthly check to Paper For Water (I sent $600 from October sales). The $5,000 she mentions could happen if I sell the 1000 calendars that are printed and ready to ship. You can help by making a purchase or by spreading the word! This makes a great holiday gift for kids, adults, makers, tinkerers, artists & crafters. Thank you!
Order your calendars here. I’m excited that I’ll be meeting Trinity and her family in March!
In the Studio:
I’m making progress on my new book about color and light, which will be titled Prism. 30 sheets x 25 colors = 750 sheets of handmade paper.
Papery Tidbits:
I’m hosting a FREE webinar on November 15th at 11am so that you can learn more about the calendar, the paper pack, Paper for Water, the guest artists and more! I’ll also be teaching you how to make one of the projects in the calendar too. If you’re interested, but that time and date isn’t good for you, sign up anyways and I’ll send you the replay.
I’m doing a Twelve Months of Paper Make-Along November 9 – 20th over on instagram and facebook. Follow along and watch each project unfold.
Did you make the pop-up lantern I shared last week? Send me a photo!
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Check out these amazing cardboard constructions in China!
Ann Martin’s blog All Things Paper is a treasure trove for those interested in paper. This week she’s released a Holiday Gift Guide for Paper Aficionados!
Whoa! A 3D printer that squirts out … paper pulp! Designer Beer Holthuis has figured out that sopping wet paper is the best material to allow artists and designers to create more sustainable 3D objects.
Yuriria Independencia Torres Alfaro has been a papel picado artisan for 30 years. Her craft was handed down from her father, Alberto Torres y Cordero, who learned it from his father. She runs a workshop in the Yucatan. Click through to watch a time-lapse video showing the tools used for this form of paper cutting and how layers of papel picado are cut by hand.
Yuriria Independencia Torres Alfaro in her papel workshop. Photo: La Bandurria Marcha
Here’s another video about Steve Pittelkow’s gorgeous marbled papers, and Tom Balbo also speaks about the craft at the Morgan Conservatory of Art.
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November 3, 2018
FREE Pop-Up Lantern Tutorial
November 4, 2018
Paper of the Week: Elephant Hide + A Free Pop-Up Lantern Video Tutorial
Elephant hide is one of my favorite papers for folding. It is a German paper produced by Zanders and is only carried by a few suppliers in the states (I get it from Talas). It comes in two weights and a handful of muted, rich colors.
As we approach the shortest (and darkest) day of the year (in the Western Hemisphere at least) how about adding a little light? This video shows you how to fold and accordion, cut pop-ups into it, and an attachment with decorative brads (although you could do many things to connect the ends). Here’s a template that you might find handy when making the lantern. Enjoy the video and the project, and if you try it out, please send me a picture!
On Paper Talk:
I had the honor and pleasure of interviewing Hedi Kyle and Ulla Warchol (mother and daughter) on my podcast, Paper Talk! We talked about their lives (with paper, of course) and their new book, The Art of the Fold. I’ve known Hedi for many years, and I’m pretty sure she taught me how to properly fold an accordion (you’ll see this in the video). She recommends elephant hide paper in her book, and one of the projects in her book in the new book is a pop-up accordion book, which I may have learned from her years ago. I turned the structure into this lantern, which I featured in my own book Paper Illuminated. The circles our lives make are pretty incredible when you get old enough to reflect on them! It’s so wonderful how Hedi has shared her inventions through teaching with the book arts community for so many years, and this book is an extension of that. I’m so glad it is here!
Papery Tidbits:
I sent a check to Paper For Water this week in the amount of $600. Thanks to all of you who have purchased a Twelve Months of Paper Calendar. I will continue to donate $5 from each sale to Paper for Water through December.
Speaking of the Twelve Months of Paper. I’m hosting a free webinar on November 15th at 11am so that you can learn more about the calendar, the paper pack, Paper for Water, the guest artists and more! I’ll also be teaching you how to make one of the projects in the calendar. You can sign up here. If you’re interested, but that time and date isn’t good for you, sign up anyways and I’ll send you the replay.
And finally, I’ll be doing a Twelve Months of Paper Make-Along November 9 – 20th. If you have a calendar and want to get a head-start on the projects (or if you just want to follow along as I make and share a bit about each project) follow me on instagram and/or facebook. There’s still time to purchase a calendar too!
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Speaking of The Art of the Fold, Abecedarian Gallery in Denver is curating an exhibition of the same title (featuring structures from the book) that will be on view at multiple venues in the Denver metro area from February 1 through Fall 2019. Learn more about entering the exhibition.
This looks like an interesting show at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in the DC area, and it is up through Thanksgiving week. Hard and Soft explores work that pushes the tactile quality of materials. Combined, the work of Thea Gregorius, Allen Linder, Michael Enn Sirvet, and Tim Tate questions notions of soft (ornamental, safe, feminine) and hard (resolute, unwavering, masculine) while it explores the relationships between sculpture and paper.
There are many companies that have made and are still making plantable seed paper. A startup called Sheedo is run by a group of young Spaniards, and they’ve managed to persuade the likes of Telefónica and Coca-Cola to get on board with their product in order to put an end to single-use paper. Perhaps the time is right, and I’m curious about how (and where) they are producing their paper.
On a similar topic (sustainability) but in a university setting, Fresh Press — a hand papermaking studio at the School of Art + Design at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana — and the U of I Library’s Conservation Unit are working together. Using Fresh Press’ trademark agriculturally sourced materials, the organizations will collaborate to craft a new kind of paper that meets conservation standards and can be used to rebind and repair the Library’s at-risk relics. How cool is that?!
Photo by Jordan Goebig/iSEE
I stumbled across this amazing paper guide for origami this week (notice that elephant hide is on it, it’s a favorite for many origami artists).
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October 27, 2018
Veggie Papyrus
October 28, 2018
Thanks to everyone who entered the October Twelve Months of Paper Giveaway. Kathleen Hartley (please contact me when you see this) and Tatyana Bessmertnaya are the lucky winners who will receive a calendar + paper pack.
I’ll be making the projects and posting about them in early November, and the winners will be posting along as much as they’d like. If you have a calendar, feel free to join us! Or if you’d like to join us, order a calendar here (they also make great gifts)!
Paper of the Week: Vintage Paper Co.
I’m in Iowa City for the joint meeting of the Friends of Dard Hunter and the American Printing History Association. One of the things I love about conferences is getting to meet people I’ve seen online. William McCracken from the UK-based Vintage Paper Co. is here with these lovely J&J Jeffery hand printed papers (and yes, I purchased a few of these papers that are screenprinted on old book pages). Vintage Paper Co. carries a variety of unique papers.
Out of the Studio: One BIG Sheet
Papery Tidbits:
I wrote a basic papermaking article for Artsy. Check it out: A Crash Course in Basic Papermaking and let me know what you think!
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Here’s a video about David Carruthers, who talks about the future of paper/making in Canada. He runs La Papeterie St. Armand in Montreal.
The Philippines produce a lot of the abaca fiber on the planet, and here’s a sampling of products being made with the abaca paper and fiber over there.
Paper lamps by CDO Handmade Paper and woven fiber lamps by Basket and Weaves.
So this happened in Club Paper: a member shared the vegetable papyrus she was making in Oregon and inspired another member in the Netherlands who tried it out. She then posted pictures of her experiments and now the final result (a lamp)!
Movable paper parts were once used to explain the movements of the moon, the five regular geometric solids, the connections between the eye and the brain, and more. Before they were relegated to the domain of children, books with movable mechanisms explained anatomy, astronomy, and more to adults. I’ve had the chance to view a few of these beauties over the years (you can visit them in special collections libraries). So cool!
Check this out: a paper airplane database. Get folding and flying!
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October 20, 2018
Calendar + Custom Paper Pack Testers
October 21, 2018
Paper of the Week: The Custom Paper Pack GIVEAWAY! (with a request)
I had such fun watching Elissa Campbell of Blue Roof Designs create the projects in the 2019 Twelve Months of Paper How-to Book & Calendar over on Instagram during the past two weeks. I asked her to do it, and was delighted that she said yes! Watching her make the projects gave me this idea: I’m going to make the projects in the early parts of November and December and it would be fun to have a couple of you make-along with me! I’m doing a giveaway and you can win a chance to make with me (online)! Two lucky winners will be chosen at random.
If you’ve already purchased a calendar, you are welcome to make-along too! I know many of you are giving these as holiday gifts, so I might repeat this in the new year. I look forward to seeing what we create!
Two lucky winners will receive a copy of the 2019 Twelve Months of Paper How-To Book & Calendar + the custom paper pack including everything needed to make the projects.
If you win, you should be willing to create and post about at least four of the projects in the calendar on social media in November and/or December (or you can share your images and thoughts via e-mail with me and I will share). Projects take about 30 minutes to create.
To enter (US residents only please): Please leave a comment on this post below (I’d love to hear which project or paper inspires you in this video). Please include an email address with your comment in order to be contacted if you win. Double your chances by following me and/or commenting on the giveaway post with this same picture over on Instagram. The giveaway ends on Friday, October 26th when two winners will be chosen at random and notified.
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In the Studio:
I am making a bubble paper to take to the annual meeting of the Friends of Dard Hunter in Iowa City this week. If you’re in the area, I’ll be at the trade fair in the Iowa Memorial Union from 1-8pm this Thursday (October 25th) with a few papers, calendars, artist’s books and how-to books.
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Papery Tidbits:
Did you catch Elissa Campbell’s calendar project posts on Instagram?
Don’t forget to order your copy of the calendar by tomorrow (October 22nd) to get a bonus gift – stock up on holiday gifts for your paper-loving friends (or add it on your wish list). I made this video showing the papers in the custom paper pack and the projects you can make with them.
Paper For Water creates origami ornaments to raise money to provide clean water to those in need. The were featured on Paper Talk recently. Have a listen!
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Sonja shared what she’s making in her studio this week over in Club Paper. Join us to share what you are creating, ask questions and get feedback.
Peace Paper always amazes me. The group travels around the world offering handmade paper as art therapy. I learned a bit more about the founder, Drew Matott, in this article.
“Benghazi” by Drew Matott, which reflects on violent revolutions around the world such as the London riots in 2011. The piece is made from military uniforms, Egyptian cotton and refugee clothing.
I never realized there were people whose job it is to make paper props for movies. Here’s a really cool video documenting Ross MacDonald’s career.
A huge shout out to those of you who send me interesting paperfacts from around the globe! Keep them coming. Here’s one I received this week featuring dancers in folded paper costumes by Montreal-based artists Melika Dez and Pauline Loctin – WOWZA!
Colored e-paper? What a concept! It looks pretty cool.
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October 13, 2018
Double Sided Origami Paper!
October 14, 2018
Paper of the Week: Double Sided Origami Paper
I wonder who invented double sided papers? I love the design opportunities (and surprises) they offer when you start folding them. This origami paper comes in a package of 8 color patterns with 96 sheets that are 6.75″ square. They feature prints of chiyogami papers – patterns that are silkscreen printed onto washi (Japanese paper). I got this paper from Mulberry Paper and More.
Trinity from Paper for Water designed a clever Origami Candy Dish for the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar, which I’ve paired with this origami paper. She told me about how she invented the design on Paper Talk (see below). Two sheets of this paper are included in the custom paper pack, which you can purchase with the calendar.
In the Studio:
I’m branching out on the podcast. This is my first episode featuring someone other than a papermaker, and I’ll be featuring other interesting paper people in the coming months. Here’s one of them! Paper For Water is a family run non-profit organization that folds origami to raise money for clean water projects around the world. It started when their two young girls learned that some kids can’t go to school because they have to carry water, and that people die because their water isn’t safe to drink. I interviewed the whole Adams family on Paper Talk about their amazing project which has been going on for seven years now. I love how the kids are involved in running a creative business while making the world a better place! There are so many cool levels to this project.
I’ve been following Paper For Water for a couple of years, and 8-year-old Trinity designed the June project in the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar, an origami candy dish. In this video, she shows us how to fold it! I’m donating $5 (or 20%) of each calendar sale to Paper For Water, and I’ve raised over $200 so far. I hope you’ll join me in helping them bring clean water to the thirsty!
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Papery Tidbits:
You might enjoy following Elissa Campbell over on Instagram as she makes and posts about all of the projects in the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar (of course I hope she’ll inspire you to want to make and share them too)!
Don’t forget to order your copy by October 22nd to get a bonus gift – stock up on holiday gifts for your paper-loving friends (or add it on your wish list).
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So you know I have a thing for calendars. Check out this one! 21Fools in India makes a calendar that grows into a garden. The wooden frame of the calendar is handcrafted out of old furniture and the paper is plantable. At the end of the year, the calendar turns itself into 12 beautiful plants.
I love Trish Witkowski’s Super Cool Fold of the Week, and this one is truly super cool in its design and simplicity. Check it out!
It snowed here for two days this week, so I was happy to see this papery reminder of other seasons over on Instagram! Hats off to Inga Peterson!
This is a bit of the story behind the wild success of Lovepop Cards, which was already a successful business when they made a deal with one of the investors on Shark Tank.
I’d like to take this class at Stanford: An Exploration of Art Materials: The Intersection of Art and Science. I’m definitely a learning by doing kind of person! One student sums the class up with this statement: “If you have a good knowledge of the materials, you’re definitely going to be a better artist.”
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