The Sunday Paper #167, July 23, 2017

Paper of the Week: Origami Coloring Paper

I found these four designs in a standard origami pack when I was visiting Japantown in San Francisco earlier this year. If you ever get there, you must go to Paper Tree (click through, they feature a how-to origami video every week)! And while you are in the area, Daiso is a huge Japanese department store with lots of paper products + more, plus there’s an underground mall with other shops and restaurants (and a mochi cart, yum)!

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In the Studio:

I have been busy creating a video-trailer for my online class, Paper Lanterns, which I’ll share with you when registration opens next week! These paper inflatables are one of the projects we’ll be making in class.

Papery Tidbits:

• Paper Lanterns, a new online class, begins September 20th and runs for 6 weeks.
• View my new artist’s books Vertices and Nebulae.

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This is pretty cool! Zhong Lin Wang and his team at the Georgia Institute of Technology cut sandpaper with lasers and covered them in thin layers of gold and other conductive materials. Then they assembled the pieces into three-dimensional rhombus shapes. These rhombi, which can fit in the palm of one’s hand and fold up to be stored in a wallet or pocket, generate electricity when a person presses on them with their fingers.

This is a fascinating video of the restoration (i.e. paper cleaning) of Albrecht Dürer’s Triumphal Arch that was performed at The British Museum. I love the part about how they figured out how to reach the center areas of this enormous print.

Um, wow! Check out these unusual and extra large piñatas by Justin Favela.

My kid is heading to Chicago soon, and I’m thinking of getting him this book as a going away present (shhhhh). Frank Lloyd Wright Paper Models: 14 Kirigami Buildings to Cut and Fold, will be released August 1. You get to fold, cut and construct mini paper versions of some of Wright’s most famous buildings.
I’ll spare you the photo on this one, but I like the concept! Reflecting on the poor sex education she received during her teenage years, 27-year-old Chinese artist Pang Danyang decided to design a pop-up book for parents and young girls going through puberty called Body Boom.
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