Bianca Chang
Beautiful paper work by Bianca Chang who uses hand cut multiple sheets of paper to create sculptures using sheets of 80gsm 100% recycled paper (minimising the impact of paper consumption). Stunning work!
Stefan Sagmeister ‘Obsessions make my life worse and my work better’.
Design master Stefan Sagmeister has this great project as a part of the series ‘Things I have Learned in my Life So Far’ back in 2008. The message was created entirely from hundreds of thousands of euro cent coins, created to be part of Urban Play in Amsterdam. A few coins were taken by some sticky fingered … Read more
Cash Rules Everything Around Me
A controversial project by Dan Tague and incredibly clever. He uses dollar bills folded many times to highlight words which can be made using the words or letters already on them. Very political, this project is interesting as many of the words or phrases are opposite and negative to the nationalistic persona of the bill … Read more
Paper Work
German Artisit Simon Schubert had created a series of paper works using just a sheet of plain A4 paper. He uses foldlines to introduce perspective, depicting flights of stairs, long corridors and 3d objects. An great and simple piece of work from a talented artist. See more work here.
Written Portraits by Van Wanten Etcetera
Each year the CollectivePromotion Dutch Literature organises the Dutch Book Week to promote Dutch literature and each year a specific genre is profiled. This year the autobiography is featured. Van Wanten Etcetera created the campaign, which show the different faces behind the (auto) biographies. Anne … Read more
Mark Jenkins
Some interesting work by Mark Jenkins, who works a lot with human shaped models, inserting them in different situations and odd places where they interact with their surroundings. He also photographs the publics reactions to these figures, which are often a little unnerving. A little odd and at times and chilling but which all adds to … Read more
Rainbow by Helmut Smits
Some fantastic work by Helmut Smits a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Using a variety of mediums, including sculpture his designs border on invention. In many cases he simply reacts to an environment, inserting an interesting edge to it. ‘Rainbow’ is beautifully simple, fun and colourful, like many of his projects. Check … Read more
Sihl + Eika
To celebrate Sihl + Eika, Switzerland’s largest paper merchant, BOB a Notting Hill based design studio, completed a series of posters and literature to commemorate historical events during their 25 years in the business. Each event was depicted using their paper. A beautiful use of a medium to remember, honour or celebrate world occasions.
Zimoun
Brilliant sound sculptures by Swiss artist Zimoun. This scene involved 186 prepared dc-motors, cardboard boxes and balls which are bounced around the box by the motors creating an unusual sound – to watch the video, click here.
Coöp
Graphic design by Coöp / Paul Marcus Fuog. The elements of Coöp’s typography are really interesting and create an impact on they’re design. The creative was based on the theme of ‘New Context’. Three popular films – Goonies, Electroma and Blow-Up, were re-imagined within Rooftop parameters. Iconic props from the films were constructed into sculptural forms culminating … Read more
