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Noisia (a wonderfully creative newcomer to origami tessellations) folded this great remix of Fujimoto’s Hydrangea and Crowding Butterflies, giving it the title of “Pollinating Butterflies”.

I think this is a wonderful design- taking the Hydrangea model (how many times have we seen this pattern over and over?) and making it fresh by adding in something new, breathing new life into the piece.

It’s really creative work- stepping from learning tessellations to making such impressive stuff in a few weeks is amazing! There’s a lot of other interesting things there, too, and hopefully more to come.

Keep up the good work!

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Thomas Hawk’s Top 10 Tips for Getting Attention on Flickr

March 30th, 2006

Thomas Hawk has a great writeup on how to get more attention for your photos on Flickr.

I’m not suggesting you engage in a furious effort of self-promotion, but his suggestions for tagging, posting, and other things are really quite useful and relevant, no matter how esoteric the subject matter (like origami tessellations, for instance).

I think his suggestions about tagging are really the best, and most important- the more descriptive and useful tags your photos have, the more likely they are to be found. That can be either through flickr, through tag-browsing engines like Technorati or others, or through search engines like Google. It’s a positive thing all around. Good descriptive text and titles is also quite helpful, too.

Anyhow, here’s the link:

Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: Top 10 Tips for Getting Attention on Flickr

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links for 2006-03-28

March 27th, 2006

patterns - a photoset on Flickr

Beautiful geometric patterns, illustrating many different tessellation types. Wonderful designs here, with 79 different images to date!

(tags: patterns design artwork tessellation tesselation geometric flickr)
Paper Kraft

Ronnie Rementilla’s blog on papercraft and other paper arts.

(tags: papercraft blog paper papel origami)

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Work of Chris Palmer

March 27th, 2006

Work of Chris Palmer

Originally uploaded by bkwebb.

A rare glimpse of some of Chris Palmer’s more recent work, compliments of Brian Webb. It’s from the show/talk that Palmer, Lang, and Allen did at Fermilab in October 2005. You can read a bit more about the event here.

Very nice to finally see some works by Palmer that are somewhat current! He’s really just an amazing artist, and I wish there was more material out there to study.

Thanks again for posting this, Brian!

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Tessellation design ideas from around the world

March 26th, 2006

I uploaded a number of image plates from Owen Jones’ 1853 classic work on design and ornamentation, “The Grammar of Ornament”. This is a favorite book of mine, which I have in a handy portable edition. The images I uploaded are all tessellation related, which I found to be interesting or inspirational.

You can find them here:

www.origamitessellations.com/photos/album/owen-jones-the-grammar-of-ornament/

Here’s a sample image:

There’s 45 images in all.

I also uploaded a good selection from a later work, Alexander Speltz’s 1906 book titled “Styles of Ornament”.

Here’s a sample from that collection:

22 images in total.

I’m still looking for a great book with nothing but tessellation designs from mosques, especially the mosque patterns from Shia mosques in the Syria/Iraq/Iran region. Until then, these old collections are quite helpful, and the price is right. If you find these interesting I’d highly suggest picking up a nice, large copy for yourself via Amazon.com or other online book seller- they are quite inexpensive.

-Eric

I neglected to add a link to my original source for these images! It was via the University of Wisconsin’s Decorative Arts Digital Collection, available here. Thanks, UWDC!

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links for 2006-03-26

March 25th, 2006

RioForm : Daniel Lafer

Daniel Lafer is a designer from Sao Paulo, Brazil. He creates some extraordinary lamps, primarily made from “multitherm” - a glass fibre that can be molded to any shape. Of special note (to me) is his “Origami” lamp…

(tags: lamp lamps lighting design art lafer daniellafer rio)
Honey: honeycomb polypropylene bench

Interesting collapsible honeycomb bench/chair/seat/table device from Charles Kaisin. $1400 US for an expandable bench seems a bit much, to me, but that’s just my opinion.

(tags: kaisin honeycomb honey expandable design chair bench seat)

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This Week in Origami Tessellations - March 24, 2006

March 24th, 2006

This has been a busy week for everyone in the Origami Tessellations photo pool on Flickr, or so it would seem! I can’t say enough good things about my fellow tessellators- it’s just a wonderful joy seeing all the new and fascinating works pop up every day, from all corners of the world.

updated to include works from Fredrik Owesen and Jorge Lucero- sorry about that, guys!

We’ll start off with some new pieces uploaded by John McKeever:

This piece, called “Stellations of the Dodecagon”, has to be one of the best examples of detailed folding work that I’ve ever seen. Fans of McKeever’s artwork (myself included!) are keenly aware of his attention to detail, and wonderful choices of paper. This design is, of course, no exception.

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