Su Blackwell

Su Blackwell - Paper Artist

2012, The Little Prince.

Su Blackwell is a wonderfully imaginative artist who works in paper. I find it inspirational how she makes books come to life. Creating three dimensional worlds from out of the context of the printed page. The power of the fold in the context of the book itself. Su's work is in the collections of admirers around the world, including Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter.

Amazing A-Z of Paper Engineers and Paper Artists

This amazing A-Z of paper engineers and paper artists from all disciplines is courtesy of the wonderful paper blog upon a fold which features the most fabulous view of the world of paper art of all kinds. They have the most fabulous uponafold shop too!

• adriane colburn
• aimee lee
• akira yoshizawa
• ana hagopian
• andrea russo
• andreas kocks
• andrea dezso
• andrea mastrovito
• andrew scott ross
• andy macgregor
• andy singleton
• angela simone
• anna-wili highfield
• annie vought
• aoyama hina
• beatrice coron
• benja harney
• bert simons
• bianca chang
• blanca helga
• bovey lee
• brian dettmer
• calvin nicholls
• carlos amorales
• cecilia afonso esteves
• cecilia levy
• chiaki morita
• chikako sato
• chloe fleury
• chris gilmour
• chris palmer
• christiane feser
• christina lihan
• christophe piallat
• claire brewster
• clemens habicht
• cybele young
• daniel alcala
• daniele papuli
• debbie wijskamp
• des plis
• diana beltran herrera
• dinh giang
• eileen white
• elod beregszaszi
• elsa mora
• emma nishimura
• emma van leest
• eric gjerde
• eric joisel
• erik demaine
• erwina ziomkowska
• ferry staverman
• fideli sundqvist
• flóra vági
• francesco mancini
• guy laramee
• hannah lobley
• hattie newman
• helene tschacher
• helen friel
• helen hiebert
• helen musselwhite
• holly ormrod
• horst kiechle
• ingrid siliakus
• isabelle de borchgrave
• jacob hashimoto
• jae ko
• janna syvanoja
• jaq belcher
• jeff nishinaka
• jennifer collier
• jen stark
• jill sylvia
• johann volkmer
• jo lynn alcorn
• jonathan chapman
• jo neville
• joseph wu
• julien vallee
• jun mitani
• justine smith
• kako ueda
• kanako yaguchi
• karen bit vejle
• katsumi hayakawa
• kazuhito takadoi
• keitaro sugihara
• kevin stanton
• kim mckechnie
• kirsten hassenfeld
• kylie stillman
• kyle bean
• laura cooperman
• lauren clay
• le creative sweatshop
• lesley haas
• liat yaniv
• linda van breemen
• lisa rodden
• lobulo design
• luciana mancosu
• lucrezia bieler
• luisa canovi
• maarten brinkman
• magie hollingworth
• mandy smith
• maría prada
• marielle van den bergh
• marlis maehrle
• marshall alexander
• martin demaine
• martine horstman
• mary button durell
• maryse dugois
• mathilde nivet
• matthew reinhart
• matt shlian
• maurizio santucci
• megan brain
• mia liu
• mia pearlman
• michael lee
• michael lomax
• michael velliquette
• michèle guichard soutif
• michihiro sato
• miriam londono
• mitsuru koga
• natasha frisch
• nel linssen
• nicholas jones
• noriko ambe
• noriko yamaguchi
• odine lang
• owen gildersleeve
• patricia zapata
• paul jackson
• people too
• peter callesen
• peter gentenaar
• pierre vanni
• polly verity
• rachel hazell
• rebecca j coles
• richard sweeney
• robert j lang
• robert sabuda
• rob ryan
• romain lenancker
• ruth gurvich
• ryuji nakamura
• ryuta iida
• sabrina transiskus
• sangeeta sandrasegar
• sarah dennis
• sarah illenberger
• sarah mitchell
• siba sahabi
• shigeru ban
• shin tanaka
• simon schubert
• sipho mabona
• sok song
• stephanie beck
• stuart mclachlan
• su blackwell
• sue codee
• susan cutts
• susan stockwell
• susan warner keene
• the makerie
• thurle wright
• tjeerd kuipers
• tomoko shioyasu
• ueli hofer
• valérie buess
• verena sieber-fuchs
• vincent floderer
• violise lunn
• yoshinobu miyamoto
• yuken teruya
• yuko nishimura
• yuko takada keller
• yulia brodskaya
• yuriko kaneko
• yvette jacobs
• zoe bradley

Prof Yoshinobu Miyamoto

Prof Yoshinobu Miyamoto

Incredible paper sculpture, origamic architecture and paper engineering from Prof. Yoshinobu Miyamoto, architect, and teacher of architecture at the Aichi Institute of Technology (AIT) in Japan.

There is a good article about his work on the wonderful uponafold.com.au

There are many more exquisite examples on his Prof.Ym Flickr Pages.

Free Torus Template to download and make below.

Popupology - Elod Beregszaszi

Elod Beregszaszi.

Difficult to know where to start with this amazing website from pop up paper folding genius and paper engineer, Elod Beregszaszi.

His really complex paper sculptures, cut out of a single sheet are really impressive, click on the image below to see a gallery full.

Popupology is an amazing source for beautiful handmade cards, inspiration and wonderful free paper folding templates! Do check out his Popupology Shop.

Free paper folding template from popupology below!

Pop Up Workshop at St. Edmunds

Pop Up Workshop at St. Edmunds School in Salisbury.

One of the greatest pleasures of working in the children's book world, are the Author Events and Pop Up Workshops that I am asked to do all round the UK.
The enthusiasm and ingenuity of the children (and teachers!) I meet is always inspiring!

I will post photos of some of the great work I have seen.

This is just one girl's work, from a workshop at St.Edmunds, Salisbury UK.
Love this first spread!

Owl Mobile - made by joel

Love this free owl mobile, from the really creative made by joel.
It's a great blog, full of crafty and creative child orientated ideas and inspiration.
We have had this owl hanging in our bedroom since Tabitha was born three and a half years ago!
Free owl mobile template below!
madebyjoel.com

Free Cute Owl Mobile Template below...

Curved Folds - Free Curved Folding Template

Curved Folding

Paper fold lines don't have to straight.
Try scoring a curved line and see what you can do, they can be a little bit difficult to fold but the results are very beautiful and often unexpected.
These are from the Curved Fold group on Flickr.

Free curved folding template below, good luck!

Jun Mitani - Paper Magician

Jun Mitani - Paper Magician

Jun Mitani: I’m an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba. My specialty is geometric modeling in the field of computer graphics. I have been studying algorithms and user interfaces for generating 3D shapes on a computer.
When did your fascination with origami begin? Did you fold a lot of origami when you were a child?
When I was a kid, I didn’t have much interest in folding origami, but in papercraft. I fabricated a lot of paper models, such as cars, ships, buildings, and animals, etc. by cutting and gluing pieces of paper. I felt that origami, just folding, was too restricted. On the other hand, I was enthusiastic about the computer, which my father bought when I was a first-year student in elementary school. As a fusion of two objects of interest, papercraft and computer, the theme of my Ph.D. thesis became a method for designing paper models with the computer.