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Matt Mendez: Square by Paper Donut

Matt Mendez: Square by Paper Donut

It’s been a while since we have written about Paper Donut and you may remember their piece for the Curious Story involving a paper crafted breakfast scene quite reminiscent of Zelda.

Since then, Alexis Facca has been quite busy with the redesigning of the site as well as some pretty cool new projects, one of which happens to be this space music video for French DJ/Composer Matt Mendez entitled Square. Taking the inspiration from the song, the cassette tape evolves throughout this spatial universe from Space to No Man’s Land and onward to Crazy City all the while animating and changing colors along the way.

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Interview with Paper Artist Nathalie Boutté

Interview with Nathalie Boutté

Nathlie Boutté is a very talented self-taught paper artist based out of Montreuil, near Paris, France, whose work can be described as delicate yet powerful. She creates portraits that are striking, where she uses long narrow strips of paper that are meticulously assembled creating a feather effect that constantly evolves. I’m pleased to share our interview with her and we hope you enjoy it too!

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The Future of Food by Zim and Zou

The Future of Food by Zim and Zou

The latest installment from the talented duo Zim and Zou, is the cover for Icon Magazine’s Issue 104: The Future of Food. The issue itself is about what food will be like in the future with their reflection being on 3D food printer technology. They have even supplied an animated gif! Stack it up, stack it up!

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Proteigon by Steven Briand

Proteigon by Steven Briand

Steven Briand aka BURAYAN has created this incredible stop motion short film animation during his two month internship at Partizan. It adds several different types of dimension to paper craft and flows nicely with the music as well.

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Unseen Pleasure by David Benmussa

Unseen Pleasure by David Benmussa

David Benmussa is a graphic designer based out of Paris, France. He has a wide range of dabbling, but one that particularly caught me of course was his latest piece. He has created a mounted paper sculpture, a tribute to Joy Division & Peter Saville, for his participation in Music Covers Exhibition that will be running in France from December 1st to January 12, 2012.

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Low Gravity by Zim And Zou

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Low Gravity—a beautiful new project by Zim and Zou for Windoo on the subject of “couch surfing”. Continue reading

Scalpel Works by Georgia Russell

“A play of solids and voids as well as content and proportions, the wispy creations explore the notion of an unseen network of energetic motions while illustrating the transient quality of a single moment.” — Designboom

Scottish-born, Paris based Georgia Russell is no amateur when it comes to manipulating photographs into rhythmic textural images by way of paper under the knife. Her pieces transport you to different times and evoke countless emotions that add to the narrative of each piece.

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Put On The Music – a Paper Craft Installation by Jean Romain

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“Put on the Music”—a paper craft project by french graphic designer Jean Romain. Continue reading

Fairy Tales and Monsters Paper Cut by Damian O’Hara

Fairy Tales and Monsters by Damian O'Hara

Damian O’Hara, a Northern Irish graphic designer currently living in France, created a paper cut poster to promote an arts festival in London called Fairy Tales and Monsters. The illustration is based on dreaming and the monsters and fairy tales that can fill our heads. Within this piece he has referenced 25 different fairy tales and a few classic old movie monsters. He wanted to go for an organic feel having the imagery be woven, similar to ones weaving imagination when being told a story.

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French Paper Artist Daniel Mar

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French paper artist Daniel Mar does an exquisite job of bringing his paper cut and sculpted pieces to life. With an earlier passion for photography fueling his inspiration, he recreates these scenes of everyday life that are in most cases very clever and playful.

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