Lisa Rodden

Wow, Lisa Rodden has some serious patience! I will do a lot for the result of awesome art but this lady goes about and beyond for her art. Her time is well spent and her work is amazing!

Lisa is an Australian artist whose inspiration comes from the various cultures she experienced.

“We as humans are lost without our connection to land and to one another, and the state of things around us is a reflection of that. The truth is that everything is inextricably linked and everything we do impacts something. For me, to create is to connect with truth, and through this I want to bring people a sense of peace and a sense of place.” via Lisa Rodden

 

Pencil To Paper

<This is potentially the most awesome thing I've ever seen involving paper…
Via yankodesign

P&P Office Waste Paper Processor is one of those things that you wish you knew how it works, but dang! no reasonable explanation provided at all! Maybe it’s a deliberate attempt on the designer teams’ part, because their idea is a surefire hit! What this lovely machine does is that it converts all those useless memos on your table to something useful: A Pencil! Paper goes in from one end and come out shaped like a sexy writing tool! Sexy enough an idea to bag a Liteon Award as well! Pencil lead, power and glue are the only other things that it requires.

Designers: Chengzhu Ruan, Yuanyuan Liu, Xinwei Yuan & Chao Chen

Bubble Wrap Prints

Via Mess For Less

Great idea for children. Get some bubble wrap, paint and a bit of canvas (or paper) and you’ve got yourself a beautiful work of art. It is even better when your kids make it for you, so I’m told. Let me know how it goes

Check out the post for the tutorial!

Art of the Toilet Paper Roll by JUNIOR FRITZ JACQUET

French artist Junior Fritz Jacquet has been fascinated by paper since a very young age. Among various other paper and cardboard creations, he transforms plain toilet paper rolls into remarkable miniature masks. His technique is inspired by origami, in that it uses a single piece and folds it into a shape, but has a unique smoothness that deviates from the sharpness and jagged edges of origami, creating shapes that are astonishingly human. The masks are sculpted by hand, then coated with shellac and different pigments. A testament to the power of taking something incredibly simple and transforming it into something impressively expressive, each piece exudes a complexity of human emotion conveyed in just a few brilliantly orchestrated folds.

Via yellowandotherinspiringstuff

Anatomical Cross-Sections Made with Quilled Paper

A friend shared this artwork with me and I was floored.  I believe his exact words were “get ready to have your mind blown!”.  Thank you Ben, for introducing me to this amazing artwork!

I am always interested in new and creative art and I don’t know how much more unique you can get than this. I’ve seen people you quilled paper to design letters of the alphabet but I’ve never seen anything like this. Kudos to the artist for combining interests in the most amazing way! WOW!

Art by Lisa Nilsson

 

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Interviews:

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Designer Envelopes

 

These are the coolest envelopes I’ve ever made! I was pretty excited about them.

 

Things you will need:

• Scrapbook paper- I used heavy paper but you could get away with regular weight.  Also, you can find the paper at Michael’s in individual sheets or in large packs.
• Hot melt glue
• Exacto knife
• Scissors
• Ruler
• Pencil (with an eraser)

 

Step 1:

Use your ruler and pencil to make an outline of an envelope on the designed side of  your scrapbook paper.

I’m not going to lie, I unfolded a standard mailing envelope to  get the dimensions I needed and tweaked them to my liking. Mine looks something like this.

 

 

Step 2:

Use your scissors to cut around the outline.

 

 

Step 3:

This part is important! Make sure your paper is laying with the designed side facing you (unlike my picture).

If you are using heavy paper: Line your ruler up along one of the inner lines you’ve make with your pencil. Use the ruler as a guide and very lightly score the line with your exacto knife. Continue to do this with all other lines. When you finish you should be able to fold the flaps (toward the undesigned side) without them tearing.

If you are using regular weighted paper just fold on the lines (toward the plain side of your paper). Don’t bother cutting with your exacto knife.

*At this point you can customize your envelope. I rounded the top corners of my side flaps to mimic the curve of the top flap.

 

 

Step 4:

Fold the bottom half up and hot melt glue the side flaps to it.

There, you have made your first envelope! The process is kind of addicting… as you can see I made several envelopes.

 

 

Hopefully you enjoyed it. Happy cutting