Star Wars Cardboard Millennium Falcon

By Nayla Khan 

From http://walyou.com/

 

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Creativity, designs and art work involve use of the computer in some or the other form. In this scenario there still exists a group of artists who love handcrafting objects. The sheer joy of seeing something take shape right before ones eyes is immeasurable. One such artist is Matheson Harris. He describes himself as a father, husband, surgeon and photographer with no mention of artist. But if you happen to see his cardboard Star Wars collection you would take him to be an excellent artist.

The cardboard collection of Star Wars was created by Harris a couple of months ago. His Star Wars fleet consists of the Millennium Falcon, AT-AT, the Star Destroyer and the Tie Fighter. Amazingly handcrafted each piece bears a striking resemblance to the original ones that you would have seen in the movies.



When the computer had not invaded every home one could see more examples of such creativity flowing in from all corners. Children and grown ups both found out varied ways to occupy themselves and in this process exercised their grey cells to a great extent. Day-to-day objects were transformed and given a new identity. This exercise led to the creation of fantastic objects and ideas. Now with every other person glued to the television or the computer handcrafted objects are becoming a rarity. Forget making use of small insignificant objects.



The Star Wars fleet created by Harris is an amazing example of handwork. If you take a look at them you will realize that the entire project is free of any fancy object. The main article used in the making of these starships is cardboard, a very inexpensive and easy to find product. Apart from this the list includes hot glue, sharpie, a couple of sucker sticks, and ping pong balls. Put all these items together and you end up getting an entire range of the Star Wars armada.

What is extraordinary about this project is not only the simplicity it bears with it but the fact that one can see a great degree of excellence in this simplicity. Every little bit is well crafted. Look at the measurement of every piece, its proportion with relation to the others and the finesse with which the whole thing has been put together. All that one can see here is excellence in every area.

Projects involving fancy objects do catch one’s attention. Designs and objects created using the computer have a very different look but the ones created by hand are unique in themselves. And to top it all if it is made of very simple objects the value increases by leaps and bounds.

For those of you who are impressed with this, take a look at Captain America Shield, Ghostbuster Ghost Trap and District 9 Art Gun Papercraft.

Small is beautiful: Amazing miniature origami sculptures that fit on the tip of your finger

By Mail Foreign Service

From: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

The Japanese have been making origami sculptures of dragons for thousands of years - but they're never normally this small.

These miniatures are so tiny they can fit on a fingertip and they take days to make using a toothpick and paper no bigger than an inch wide.

Artist Anja Markiewicz spends days working on some of her remarkable sculptures, taking a break every two hours to keep up her concentration levels.

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Artist Anja Markiewicz creates her mini-sculptures, such as this dragon, using a toothpick and inch-wide paper

The 24-year-old has created around 500 of the pieces and sells them for around £10 each on her website.

Anja had the idea five years ago after she made an origami ship with foil from a chocolate wrapper while bored at college.

She said: 'After I finished eating the chocolate, I started to fold the wrapper and ended up with a tiny ship.

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Anja's favourite sculpture is this yellow ball, which takes 10 hours to make

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This snowflake required the most paper to create - a mere 38mm square

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Anja stumbled on her art while playing with a chocolate wrapper while bored at college

'I cut the paper to make it smaller and was still able to fold a ship - my friend gave it a go but couldn't do it.

'On the way home I bought some very thin paper from a craft shop and spent hours making more sculptures.

'It was very pleasing to me. I created more figures, using a toothpick for the really intricate parts.

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A diamond rose and a tiny crane

'My favourite is the origami ball, because that took me the most effort.

'All in all, it was about ten hours, and I had to take breaks because it's tiring.

'I also like the rat, as it's quite a famous design in origami art but I have taken it down to a minuscule level.'

Anja, from Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany, added: 'Some pieces I can do in as little as five minutes and I love selling my work online.

'It gives me great satisfaction to know that people are buying my art and enjoying it.'

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Anja sells sculptures, including this beetle, for £10 a time

A Paper Crafted Audi & How It Was Made

From: http://www.visualnews.com/

Using only paper as his materials, graphic designer Taras Lesko was recently commissioned by Audi to create a model version of their snappy new A7 automobile. Putting his print, cut and paste skills to work, Lesko came up with a version of the car that looks almost as if it could really drive. Be sure to check out the great ‘making-of’ video below and then head to visualspicer.com for more of this talented designers creations.

Awesome Angry Birds Stop Motion Animation

We already know how fun and popular the Angry Birds game is, and some die-hard fan really shows his love for it with this cool example using Stop Motion Animation using construction paper.


Created by Gregory Cortez, this is a remake of one level from the Angry Birds game that is recreated beautifully; even the sounds and scores are accurate, making you want to pick up your iPhone / Droid and play it again.

Amazing Vividly Newspaper Sculptures by Nick Georgiou

From: http://thedesigninspiration.com/

Look, the printed word is live! Don’t doubt what you have seen here. They are the works of Nick Georgiou, a creative artist from Queens, NY. All of his works are vividly sculpted by newspapers and books that collected by himself or others arround. Georgiou always considers himself as a storyteller. He enjoys changing printed word into another form and thinks it is a way of breathing new life into books or newspapers. His works have been exhibited Black Rat Press, Andipa Modern galleries in London, the recent solo exhibition in Tucson as well as several shows in the New York area. We have featured some here, let’s feel the great charm of the creatures of the stitched folds of paper.

Click here for the full gallery: http://thedesigninspiration.com/

The Beauty of Paper Art

• By Smashing Editorial
• From http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
  

The times when paper was considered to be the primary medium for artistic expression is long gone. Many writers and designers use digital media to improvise and develop their ideas. However, there is something particuliar in this “physical” canvas — something that keeps us getting back to paper when we want to brainstorm ideas in a notebook, doodle around in a sketchbook, collect inspiration in a scrapbook or just draw some sketches for the next project.

In fact, paper is even more powerful than that. It is a very flexible medium. You can use it paper only for giving your ideas and feelings forms, but also as an expressive medium for creative artworks formed out of paper. You can create a sharp-edged paper plane or ship, but also form twisted curves of nature or complicated geometrical shapes. In this weekend’s post we present a showcase of paper art; you wil find many beautiful carved, folded, cut out paper objects and realistic 3D paper sculptures, all using paper, cardboxes or even books as materials. Please make sure to follow the links to explore further works of the artists presented below.

The Beauty of Paper Art

Apples

Buscando a la serpiente

Paper Tunnel by Jen Stark

Flat Globe Cutting Book Series “AKIRA CLUB”

Golden Swan

Paper flowers

Face

Click here for the Entire Gallery: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

10 Artworks Made of Money

See the masterpieces these artists created from currency

By Brynn Mannino

from WomansDay.com

We all know the image of the poor, starving artist, but the reality is, it can be costly to create art. Whether for supplies, workspace or even classes, most artists are constantly throwing money

into their passion—but there are a select few who do it literally. These creative minds take cold, hard cash and turn it into art. So read on for 10 masterpieces made of money.

“Money Dress” by Dave Cole

Made of 1,000 unused single dollar bills, which Cole cut into raw materials, this 66" x 30" x 14" dress was displayed in the 2007 Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Arts and Design, which was devoted to “using fiber in unexpected and unorthodox ways.” Photo courtesy of Clayton Parker via Flickr.com.

“Money Boat” by Qinyi “Raymond” Yu

This 3’-long x 4’-tall boat—currently on display at Yu’s Mandarin Island Chinese Restaurant in Mission Hill, California—showcases traditional Chinese paper art. According to Bob Nienhuis’ website dedicated to Traditional Chinese Paper Arts, Yu used over 20,000 modular units to create the structure, which took approximately six months to complete. Photo courtesy of WestWorld.com.

“Absolute Power” by Justine Smith

The London-based artist built this 7.5" x 5" x 1.5" handgun sculpture out of U.S. dollar bills and plastic in 2005. She says her work “examines our relationship with money in a political, moral and social sense, while also taking advantage of the physical beauty of the notes.” Photo courtesy of Justine Smith.

“Washington” by Justine Smith

Smith, whose work is currently featured in the collections of the British Council and the UK Government Art Collection, created this 3.5" x 15" x 9" model of a dog in 2005 using multiple U.S. dollars along with resin and leather. Photo courtesy of Justine Smith.

“Obama vs. McCain” by Theodore Stanke

Brooklyn-based Stanke created this mosaic in the month leading up to 2008 presidential election. Created from adhesives and chopped-up American coins—Obama from pennies and nickels, McCain from quarters, dimes and dollars—the mosaic was intended to depict the distribution of wealth backing each candidate. The piece took 10 days to create and is currently for sale at Bunga’s Den in Manhattan. Photo courtesy of Ted Stanke.

“One Dollar Koi” by Won Park

Famed Japanese origami artist Won Park is known for using the U.S. dollar bill to create his detailed designs. Won even shares the secrets of his trade in a step-by-step video tutorial on his blog “Have Paper, Will Travel.” Photo courtesy of Won Park.

“One Dollar Camera” by Won Park

Park also created this tiny camera out of a “Won” dollar bill, as he refers to it, using the same unbroken folding technique showcased above. Photo courtesy of Won Park.

“Carpenter’s Tools” by Stacey Lee Webber

These three tools, constructed out of pre-1992 copper pennies, are part of Webber’s “The Craftsmen Series.” The artist hand-cut the pennies and soldered them together to create hollow, 3-D replicas of existing hand tools. She has said that they are synonymous with house construction and money is the reward for hours of labor and sweat. Photo courtesy of Stacey Lee Webber.

“Queen Elizabeth II” by Unknown

This paper portrait of the Supreme Governor of the Church of England displays “money-gami” at its best. Though a simple concept, constructing a leader out of his/her region’s currency produces impressive results. Photo courtesy of Close the World via Flickr.

“Paris Skyline” by Unknown

Each bill in this artist’s collection depicts a cut-out of a skyline or famous landmark, all instantly recognizable. In this example, we love the jutting Eiffel Tower beside the famous Arc de Triomphe. Photo courtesy of Spluch via Flickr.com.

Don’t Drop Your Old Books, You Could Make Some Masterpieces of Them

From: http://zuzutop.com/

You have an old used book and you plan to drop it in garbage? Well, after reading this post you might change your mind about that and try to make some cool paper-cut sculptures from its papers . I always liked those books for kids with different sculptures and objects which would fold up when you open the book. Even when I grew up I was always fascinated with such kind of books.

Su Blackwell realized that she actually could create some artworks in a similar way. Those are not the books which are made only for kids and those paper sculptures definitely do not fold up when you open them, but they are great examples that you can create a true artwork even from old used book.
Su has made some really amazing sculptures cut from books’ papers and we will show you here some of her most interesting artworks. Author site .