Pleat Explosion, experiment one Originally uploaded by EricGjerde. 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.
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!
Tessellated Tortoise 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!
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:
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.
