Monthly Archives: March 2006

• Make Your Own Moleskine-Like-Notebook
  Michael Shannon’s great guide on making your own Moleskine style notebook. great plan for customizing!
  (tags: DIY moleskine craft papercraft guide bookbinding make maker)

Hideaki Azuma pointed out quite a few updates to his original leaf fold design, mentioned here a few weeks back.

On his further explorations of this concept, he runs through a large number of variations on paper size, shape, fold angles, folding patterns, and more. Some of them are really just fascinating structures.

This one reminds me of Melisande’s variant of his original leaf fold.

He progresses through a number of diffferent leaf shapes, and then starts going into some heavily twisted topology, like these ones (my favorites):

These twisted shapes remind me a lot of Philip Chapman-Bell‘s (aka Oschene) 3d boxes and jars- I love the way all these things just spring up out of a flat sheet of paper.

Much interesting and fertile ideas here. Thank you, Azuma-san!

Transitions

Originally uploaded by Owesen.

Fredrik Owesen had previously discussed making a 3d mold of one of his tessellations.

Now, it appears that he has pulled it off! I’m very interested in learning the details of this process, especially how he so accurately captured the interior spaces.

A fantastic concept- I’ve long imagined how wonderful it would be to create tiles based on some 3d tessellations, but I had no idea it would look so striking! Hopefully now that he’s figured out a process, we’ll see more designs like this.

How wonderful would it be to make a tiled mosaic tessellation using patterned tiles made up of tessellations? The recursion levels alone would leave my geometry-loving heart pounding.

Looking forward to more of this artwork, Fredrik!

• Patterned 3d papercraft stars
  A collection of someone’s wonderful 3d star artwork. Papercraft stars, with 12, 20, and more points, with beautiful patterns on them. Definitely worth taking a peek.
  (tags: star papercraft 3d paper stars estrela artwork)

• LAMPA + MOBLER modern contemporary Lighting, Furniture and Accessories FLOWER
  Tessellated foam stools! hexagonal flowers. neat.
  (tags: seat stool tessellation chair design)

From the website:

This beautifully unique lampshade is expertly handcrafted from Denguri paper found locally in the Shikoku region of Japan. The honeycomb paper diffuses the light creating a soft, gentle glow.

It is designed by Kouichi Okamoto, and manufactured by Kyouei Co. Ltd., Japan.

He’s got some rather impressive and unique design concepts- you can see some more information on his designs here.

This is a really neat design, and I like the shipping/packaging of it. I’m wondering what this Denguri paper is?

[via designboom]

My good friend Mélisande pointed out this fantastic, funky lamp- guessing quite correctly that I would want to add it to my collection of strange lighting designs.

Spoiler, though- as near as I can tell, it’s made entirely of wire. As a huge Slinky fan this works for me, but your mileage may vary…

You can see more photos and info here:

http://www.neweba.com/index-Dateien/Page540.htm

• Beautiful Photos of Iran
  A visual tour of Iran, with photos and historical commentary on the various regions of the country. The photos of mosque tilings in Isfahan are particularly beautiful and artistically inspirational.
  (tags: iran photos isfahan tehran yazd mosque tiling tessellations geometry mosaic art)
• Maphalda: Venezuelan Punk
  Some amazingly good punk H/C from 3 amazing girls in Venezuela.
  (tags: Mafalda Maphalda punk hardcore music grrls venezuela)

Octuple Helix Compass Rose Jar

Oschene does it again.

He’s an endless source of interesting geometric folding ideas, it seems!

He posted a CP at the link above, I highly suggest downloading it and trying it out. His work is easy to learn and remember, and makes for great on-the-road folding!