Yuken Teruya modifies paper objects to draw organic forms out from their utilitarian structure.
Also, don’t miss the Dessert Project, which exploits how like a parfait are cutaway versions of landscapes.
Yuken Teruya modifies paper objects to draw organic forms out from their utilitarian structure.
Also, don’t miss the Dessert Project, which exploits how like a parfait are cutaway versions of landscapes.
Japanese artist (now based in France) Hina Aoyama makes elaborate paper cuttings that recall lace. This is a relatively simple example:
This slideshow of photographs of her work shows some with the shadows they cast.
When I made my tiny photo book (Thing 10: Tiny Photo Book), I was using a folding pattern intended to, with several folds and a single cut, yield a tiny book with a front, back, and 3 spreads.
I ended up making a lot more cuts to get more spreads and thus needing to “bind” my book, which I did with jewelry wire and beads. With less cutting than I originally used but 1 cut more than the single-sided version calls for, the book still doesn’t need to have a spine or stitching and can have 4 spreads. I used the following pattern (in which you would fold on the dotted lines and cut on the solid lines):
My goal was to do all the printing on a single sheet of paper, and then fold and cut to get a tiny book that needed no binding. (I did glue the blank [backs of the] pages.) And I got this:
There. Now I can move on to accordion books and stab-stitch books.