I love paper and my studio is filled with sheets of all sorts — patterned, colored, textured, plain, and lots of different weights. And there’s a big drawer full of sample books. I’m always looking for new paper sources and experimenting with the paper I have.
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In time for Valentine’s Day, I have a few new letterpress printed things in my shop. From left to right:
Mini note cards, set of 6 with envelopes.
Heart note cards with red and pink envelopes, set of 6
Another set of 6 mini note cards with envelopes.
The mini note cards are business card-sized — 3-1/2″ x 2″ — and the heart note cards are A2 (or 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″) and all are blank on the back. You can see all my note cards, tags and mini cards here.
My friend Tracey sent me an article about Jeannine Mosley, who’s been folding paper since she was 5 and has never gave up her origami habit. I really love the ones to the left. (You can make your own, it’s called a “Square-Based Origami Bud” and the instructions are here.)
Mosely is an expert on minimalist origami, in which one is restricted to just four folds. She has constructed an entire alphabet—both upper and lower cases—of minimalist origami letters (unfortunately I can’t find a picture of them).
She also builds 3D structures, like the Menger’s Sponge out of 66,048 business cards. You can see photos of the process of building the structure here and here.
 Anna-Wili Highfield is a Sydney-based artist who makes sculptures of animals from paper that is painted then sewn together to create the figure of an animal or bird. See many examples here. |
Another papercut artist… this one is British designer Julene Harrison. She’s got lots of pictures on her website and her blog.
 Recently on the bookarts list serv, Richard Langdell announced that “after over 20 years of papermaking I recently sold the wholesale and production side of my business. Now I am focusing on (selling) the 15,000 sheets of paper that I have in stock.” You can see some of the stock here. |
On her website, Annie Vought writes “I have been working with cut out correspondence for the past four years. I meticulously recreate notes and letters that I have found, written, or received by enlarging the documents onto a new piece of paper and intricately dissecting the negative spaces with an Exact-o knife. The handwriting and the lines support the structure of the cut paper, keeping it strong and sculptural, despite its apparent fragility. In these paper cutouts, I focus on the text, structure, and emotion of the letter in an elaborate investigation into the properties of writing and expression. Penmanship, word choice, and spelling all contribute to possible narratives about who that person is and what they are like. My recreating the letters is an extended concentration on peoples’ inner lives and the ways they express their thoughts through writing.” One of her papercuts is to the left, and you can see more here.