Ninja December 10th, 2009
Check out this condensed video of 20 years of wonderful designs by the Charles S. Anderson Design Company for the French Paper Company. For more French promotions, visit the French Paper Sample Room here.
Related postsNinja October 21st, 2009
Nagano-based artist, Ryuji Nakamura designs and crafts airy sculptures, clothing, interiors, and furniture from humble white paper. She was the 2007 Tokyo Designer’s Week winner and has won the Good Design Award, JCD design Award, and Nashop Lighting Award.
Living Design Gallery
Hechima chair
Dress/coures de courel
Nami chair
Kuma
Ninja September 22nd, 2009
Danish paper master Peter Callesen has an exhibition at the Museum of Religious Art
in Lemvig!
When
The show runs until November 15, 2009
Where
Museet for Religiøs Kunst
Bodil Kaalund Samlingen
Strandvejen 13
DK – 7620 Lemvig
Callesen takes humble A4 sheets and transforms them into intricate, beautiful narratives. Below is a samples of some of his work.
Resurrection
Babel
Transparent God
Transparent God detail
Distant Wish detail
Eismeer
Halfway Through
Looking Back
White Hand
Little Erected Ruin
Ninja July 2nd, 2009
Wow, I am in awe of Wataru Itou’s handmade, papercraft castle. This intricate paper castle took four years to create and includes lights, a ferris wheel, and a moving train! It is on view at the Umi no Ue no Oshiro (A Castle On the Ocean—海の上のお城) exhibition at Uminohotaru.
Via tokyobling
Thanks for the tip, Ray!
Related postsNinja June 18th, 2009
Cologne-based artist, Simon Schubert, folds and creases paper elaborate designs. He studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under the instruction of Irmin Kamp.
Ninja March 30th, 2009
Paper artist, Noriko Ambe, cuts some wonderful organic shapes into sheets of Yupo paper and book pages.
A Piece of Flat Globe Vol.6, 2008
Cut on Yupo, glue
5 1/8(H) x 6 11/16(W) x 5 15/16(D) inches
Photo by Masaya Yoshimura
A Piece of Flat Globe Vol.6, detail
A Thousand of Self, 2007
Cuts on a book of “1000 on 42nd Street” by Neil Selkirk
9 1/8 x 14 3/4 x 5/8 inches
Cracking, 2006
Cuts on Yupo
25 x 36 x 1 inches
Diptych piece
Cracking, detail
Flat File Globe 1, 2006
Cuts on Yupo, metal cabinet
12 3/4 x 11 x 16 1/8 inches
Flat File Globe 1, detail
LACP 12 “A Book of Anatomy”, 2002
Cuts on a book of “Anatomy of a Human Being”
11 3/4 x 19 5/8 x 1 1/8 inches
LACP 12, Encyclopedia “Phisical Gymnastics, Human Body”, 2002
Cuts on an encyclopedia
9 7/8 x 19 5/8 x 1 3/4 inches
Related link
+ Visit Noriko Ambe’s website
Ninja November 14th, 2008
My new favorite blog is Elsa Mora’s All About Papercutting. Like the blog’s title suggests, Elsa provides links all your papercutting needs—tutorials, other papercutting artists’ sites, shopping sites, and more.
This LA-based artist creates some intricate, whimsical (and bittersweet) papercut designs that are too good just to keep to myself. Take a look!
Penguin May 9th, 2008
This past week, I’ve been helping Ninja clean her mess called a room. Earlier in the week, I had been cleaning my own room and in both instances, I came across the same problem: What to do with old media?
The following is a list of media that I encountered:
The main issue is density. Both in terms of physical space that the object takes up and the amount of data that can be stored on the medium. A secondary issue is obsolescence. The majority of these can no longer be read by modern hardware (floppies, Zip, VHS).
Optical Media
With bittorrent and about 1.5 TB of HDD, I find very little reason to maintain a collection of DVDs or CDs anymore. Of course, I have spindles of both containing various backups of video, images, mp3s, and software. But what to do with purchased optical media? It’s been at least 4 years since I’ve bought or even listened to a music CD. At the same time, I don’t feel like I should just toss it. I already have all but a few of the CDs in mp3.
Magnetic Media
Old magnetic media are garbage. The only ones I hesitated on throwing out were Zip disks and only because there was a possibility that Ninja had some art on it. I also have about 40 games or other pieces of software that come on CD but can’t be run by Windows XP because they were designed for DOS or Win95. Even though the media itself is current, the software has become obsolete. Do I go through the trouble of finding hacks and emulators to run them considering I haven’t touched many of these games in over 8 years?
Paper
The worst is paper. Paper has low physical and data density. 1 8.5×11 sheet can contain a max of 4872 characters (Courier New, 12pt, 0 margin) or 4.9 KB, that’s a data density of 0.05 KB/in^2. Where as a CD can hold 700 MB, resulting in a data density of 45,000 KB/in^2. That’s the equivalent of 900,000 pages.
The main benefit of paper is that it is future proof. No matter what technology comes around, we will always have the necessary bioware to read the media.
Conclusion
So, now what? As much as I would like to throw out my optical media, I can’t bring myself to do it. It takes up relatively little space compared to the other storage mediums. I’ve tossed pretty much all the magnetic media. And most of the paper has gone in the trash as well. Books are a little harder to throw away. Some old manuals have gone in the bin, but many others need to find their way to shelves.
-Penguin
Related postsNinja February 6th, 2008
Good morning! Why not start your Wednesday off with some beautifully cut paper art from Hina Aoyama?
Related link
+ To see more, visit Hina’s Flickr page here
Ninja November 27th, 2007
I’ve searched the internet for some of the prettiest wrapping papers just for you! Corresponding purchasing links can be found after each image.
+ Yuzen paper from Kate’s Paperie
+ Wallpaper from Neisha Crosland
+ Silkscreened paper from Nepal
+ Ginkgo
+ Paisley
+ House Industries Wrapping Paper
+ Emigre type pattern wrapping paper
+ Funnel Paper Goods
+ Pop Ink
If the thought of wrapping really scares you, you can always try the:
Related links:
+ Wrapping tips from Whimsy Press
+ How to wrap like Martha Stewart
Limited edition lithograph prints. Signed + numbered.
