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Origami Invitation for Louis Vuitton

What a masterpiece of design, printing and paper. This is the Louis Vuitton invitation for one of their recent store openings in Osaka, Japan. This incredible feat was headed up by Ogilvy & Mather - Paris and a incredible team including a paper object designer, print mangement and technical director. The complicated and breath-taking precision of this piece is mind boggling. It was offset print in cool grey 1U. It utilized transparent, matte silver, pearl and rainbow foils. It was also silkscreened, debossed and die-cut. AND if that wasn't enough, each one was hand-folded! Phew! See more details and images at Happycentro. I'm speechless.  And check out this video with the whole process capsulated into 2 minutes.  Well worth the watch.

 

Origami Printer "Hydro Fold"

 

Christophe Guberan, a third-year student from the industrial design program at ECAL in Switzerland has created the Hydro Fold.  “The idea is to give shape to paper through the simple use of water, adapting an existing printer to control the phenomenon. This experimental approach allowed me to explore new avenues of research,” explains Christophe. This project utilizes a printer, a simple sheet of tracing paper and water to create a transition from 2D to 3D.

Jar of Paper

Present & Correct is a much loved online store for me. If I could purchase everything in the shop, I do it. Like - NOW. They create limited editions of graphic stationary and desktop ephemera. Some of which is sourced and some items are created by Mark. He is half of the Present & Correct team. He is responsible for these geometric paper sculptures placed into bell jars. Aren't they fine? This is just one of three he has created. See all three of these paper beasts at Design Crush. Wouldn't one look great on my desk?

The Ampersand Collection on French Paper

Brian French - @frenchified of French Paper just got a package in the mail from screenprinter 55 Hi's and shared it via an Instagram. The pic showed a snippet of the Ampersand Collection. With my interest peaked - I followed the links to their webpage. I just had to share. The Ampersand Collection is a curated package of ten original 9x9 prints from ten faboosh designers. Each ampersand is hand-printed on a cover weight stock of Mr. French paper. The package of prints are held inside a cellophane wrapping in a custom folder. And it's a limited-edition of 200. Nice. Thanks for sharing, Brian!

 Contributing Artists: Ryan Brinkerhoff, Riley Cran, Scott Hill, Kendrick Kidd, Anthony Lane, Drew Melton, Chris Sandlin, Sergey Shapiro, Michael Tabie

How to make a Fold Sing

Everyone is talking about this magazine cover. It seems to be all over the twitterverse. And for good reason, it's amazing! I will be ordering up one for my "keeper" file. It is a true feat of paper engineering, thought, creativity and mathmatics. Feast your eyes and hands on the cover of the November issue of German design magazine, NOVUM. They commissioned PAPERLUX to design and produce this cover. It is made up of 1,000 faceted, colored and registered score lines. They can be folded and bent along these scores to shape the cover into geometric fun. The cover says  - "play with me". Watch the video below to see the "Making of the Cover".

Here are some details about the project.

• 48,000 print passes
• 6 different colored covers created by changing the sequence of the cmyk inks - no new plates were utilized
• 1,000 scored triangles

 

 

 

 

 

Paper Crafted Cameras

Check out these meticulous replicas of cameras made completely of paper. The designers behind ZIM AND ZOU are based in Nancy, France. One of the mediums they explore is papercraft. Check out more of their papercraft at this LINK. And be sure to check out the video to see them in action. Their latest work in progress is entitled BACK TO BASICS. They have been working on it for a year and continue. Each device is painstakingly cut by hand using sustainable paper.

Build It Yourself | Paper Fun Slingers

Wild West Fun Slingers are BIY (build it yourself) paper toys. These 12 x 18 giclees are printed on FRENCH SPECKLETONE, Cream, 80 Cover. Once built, the figures stand at roughly 6" tall. This is a limited edition of 50 that are signed and numbered by their creator, ALEX WESTGATE. Alex is a friend on my flickr. He is a graphic designer/illustrator/printmaker and lives in Toronto. He spends his days at his desk drawing or in the studio screenprinting by hand.  You can find him at PRINTANDPIXEL. He has great taste in paper. O-K stocks this color/weight in Speckletone if you've got ideas for print on paper.

BookBinding with AIGA

Had a blast with the AIGA Chapter of Austin Community College making books this weekend. There were so many great looking books created.  We hand distressed hardboard covers and then coptic stitched in our pages. A real treat.

Paper Money | Origami

Love this origami made out of paper money from around the world. You can see more at http://fickleflickers.fc2web.com/noguchi/menu3.htm  The artist, Hasegawa Yousuke, takes money and folds it based on the portrait on each paper note. He gives them hats, clothes or turns them into an object. The results are amazing, don't you agree?

Vintage Masking Tape

Check this out. Vintage masking tape! Seen and mentioned in this month's issue of READYMADE magazine. You can find this set of tape from Etsy HERE.  It's gorgeous.