Archive for September, 2006
Italy Travel Suggestions? September 27th, 2006
So, Origami Tessellations (in the guise of Eric Gjerde) will be travelling to “Il Convegno del CDO in Verbania, Italy, on December 8-10. I should be rolling into Milan on the 7th, and heading back out sometime later on the next week (13th? 15th? something like that.)
Right now I’ve got an open schedule, other than that Friday through Sunday, so if any other origami/math/design/art freaks in that region of Europe want to meet up I’ll be in the area. I’m contemplating staying in Milan for a day or two and then maybe checking out Firenze, although that’s all utterly unknown right now.
Anybody have suggestions as to what I should go see? It’s going to be wintertime, but I think I can handle whatever Italy can throw at me- I do live in the coldest state in the continental US. There’s so much to see that I’m having a bit of cultural overload. I might have a travelling partner (my much cooler younger brother) to boot, if I’m lucky.
If you’ve got some hints, throw me a bone here. I should be rolling with some seriously sweet geometrical monstrosities, as well, so if for some reason you’d like to see my creations up-close-and-personal just ask, and I’ll make a vagabond journey to your burg and do some show-and-tell.
Thanks!
-Eric
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Owesen’s Lightbox Tessellation September 27th, 2006
Astounding. Fredrik Owesen has a fantastic tessellation mixing illustration and non-regular polygons. This is the sort of irregular pleating that I have dreamed of making, and here it is!
Again, Fredrik produces some first-rate work, showing us all something new and wonderful. Make sure to look at it large size and check it out!
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Arabesque Flourish September 25th, 2006
Another organic shape exploration, becoming increasingly architectural with each new thing I fold. Not exactly sure where I’m heading with all of this but it’s an interesting process nonetheless.
For what it’s worth, this is my 2000th photo uploaded to flickr. It’s been an interesting year or so, hasn’t it?
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Organic Folding by Paul Jackson September 24th, 2006
So I’ve been doing a lot of organic pleat folding lately, and several people have mentioned to me that what I’m doing resembles work done by Paul Jackson.
This led me to go back and look through some of his work- you can see his gallery here. It’s really just amazing stuff.
I’m trying to head down a slightly different path, but his work is very inspiring- I’d love to see more of it!
This image is from sipmab’s photostream on Flickr, from the Hangar 7 origami expo. It’s one of Paul Jackson’s organic pieces. Much thanks for posting and sharing this on Flickr!
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Pleat Explosion, experiment one September 21st, 2006
Exploring different possibilities in folding; approaching tessellations from a more organic angle.
My first attempt at this thought, not quite what I was envisioning but acceptable for the initial try.
Made from light green elephant hide, wetfolded.
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Richard Sweeney wins New Designer’s DKNY Award! September 20th, 2006
Congratulations go to Richard Sweeney for winning the New Designer’s 2006 DKNY Award.
Prize: £1,000 and showcase in DKNY London flagship store
Judges citation: “Beautifully hand crafted structures with multiple installation possibilities.”
Winner’s comment: “I work very hands on with the material and that’s the basis of my work. I like to make beautiful forms which is my main drive.”
cited from newdesigners.com
You can see more of Richard’s work on his Flickr photostream:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardsweeney
This is a great thing for Richard- I’m very pleased to see him getting more recognition and I hope this exposure brings him even more good fortune down the road. His work is absolutely brilliant and inspiring; I can’t wait to see what the future holds for him. Good work, Richard!
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Redpaper origami blog - tessellated tortoise September 18th, 2006
Check out this tessellated tortoise from a great Korean origami blog (my origami blog RSS feed is starting to get almost unmanageable! so much to read each day, somehow I missed this post…) Thanks to Nicolas Terry and his wonderful origami news site for the link!
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TACHI Tomohiro’s 3D Origami Teapot September 18th, 2006
TACHI Tomohiro makes the most amazing origami renditions of daily objects- a laptop, a twin lens reflex camera, and now a teapot. This is an absolutely astounding work. Follow the link to see his CP for this- it’s unreal. Wow!
http://www.tsg.ne.jp/TT/origami/teapot.html
UPDATE:
Check out another wonderful picture of this on Brian Chan’s flickr photo stream:
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Iso-area offset triangle twist PDF September 12th, 2006
Playing around with different angles, came up with this interesting modification on an old favorite. It’s iso-area, has several layers to it (in a Joel Cooper-esque way, to me) and is a bit different than anything I’ve folded before. There’s something unique in the way that you can manipulate pleats to get extra layers of paper moving around in there. This is a new area of exploration for me.
Would look good, no doubt, from elephant hide. I’ll give it a try once my latest order shows up.
For the curious, I put up a fancy crease pattern document in PDF format available for download from my website.
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3.4.6.4 Tessellation, done with an interesting methodology September 7th, 2006
This tessellation is quite fascinating, for several reasons, which I hope I can elucidate here.
First, here’s the underlying tessellation- a 3.4.6.4 semiregular tessellation. (Image used from Totally Tessellated, which is a site well worth visiting if you like tessellations.)
Normally (for me, anyhow) folding a 3.4.6.4 tessellation requires using quite a bit of paper to flesh out all the pleats, intersections, and other parts; so necessarily, one must use a piece of precreased paper with quite a few division in it to really do the pattern justice.
The real beauty of the way this design has been folded lies in the use of elements on both sides of the paper; so the pleats coming away from the open-backed offset hexagonal twists on the back turn into the pleats leading into the triangular twists on the front, with a minimum of wasted space.
Joel Cooper uses this technique very often, in his “flagstone” style tessellation patterns. While this design does not pack the twisted polygons as close together as Joel prefers, it still uses the same types of concepts- putting the twist elements on both sides of the paper, and using the interconnecting pleats as a sort of “middle layer” to do more work with less paper waste. This is a somewhat difficult concept to execute in paper form, at times, so I am very pleased to see more people picking up on the idea and running with it like this.
I’m also quite enamored with this pattern because of the use of spacing. It’s not a big secret that I’m particularly fond of open patterns that let a lot of light through them- it’s not just because I’m lazy and like to avoid close, dense packing of patterns (although that’s quite true!) but I really enjoy a good balance between light and dark, shadows and brightness. By using these multiple layers (or at least conceptually, multiple layers) the pattern has a much richer depth to share with us when it is backlit. Besides the 3.4.6.4 tiling, the twists, and the overall circular feel to it, we also get wonderful bowtie patterns linking all the sections together, as well as quite a few different areas of paper thickness- which, especially if folded from a light paper like white unryu, would really make a striking difference in shading.
This is a great design, and I’m really rather smitten with it! Good work!
I highly encourage you to check out additional work by Miguel, on Flickr or on his wonderful blog, Doblando Papeles.
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