Dominique Jal is a French illustrator living in Copenhagen, Denmark. He’s worked for 15 years as an illustrator in France and Denmark and is now collaborating with the largest Danish advertising agencies. Dominique Jal has developped various styles for his large formats illustration, portraits, still life or children books.
Felice Varini is a Swiss artist living in Paris and known since 1979 for his geometric perspectives and anamorphic paintings covering buildings, streets and walls, using projector-stencil techniques. The paintings are characterized by one vantage point from which the viewer can see the complete painting, usually a simple geometric shape such as circle, square, line painted with very few colors. From other view points the viewer will see ‘broken’ fragmented shapes.
Rozenn LG is a French paper artist and set designer who has worked for the movie industry as well as for magazine internationally. The paper suit is a collaboration with Sidney Dubois and the paper town is a collaboration with Lucie Van Der Elst.
Cruschiform is Marie-laure Cruschi’s portfolio, a French graphic designer. Founded in 2007 with the hope to continuously experiment and explore new areas. Little by little, her graphic vocabulary is getting more and more figurative, driving her to new narratives territories.
HICAVELINCA for Arjowiggins, photo: Jonathan Icher
Maud Vantours is a French designer and artist, living and working in Paris. She graduated from the school Duperré, and then followed a Design training with a specialisation in textile and material research.
Her work is focused on colors, materials and patterns. Her style is made of original multicolored graphics and dreamlike landscapes. Maud Vantours works with luxury brands as well as mass market brands ; her works has been shown both in France and internationally as well as in several professional fairs like Maison&Objet.
Today Maud has just joined our free iPhone and iPad application dedicated to paper art and called Paper Art Trends. She kindly answered a few questions for that occasion:
Hi Maud, who are you ?
Maud Vantours, 27 years old, designer and artist.
How did you come to work with paper ?
I started to work this material during my art studies.
Paper is my favorite material, I love it because it is fragile and malleable as well, its thickness is almost imperceptible, but accumulated it becomes dense and tough. I superimposed it, then cut layer after the layer until it gain volume and have quite a third dimension. I like the idea of using a basic material that become a noble after working and sculpting.
How would you describe your work, your personal style ?
It is about accumulation and superimposition of layers… This was inspired during a journey to Cuba: the colorful walls of the old houses are damaged by the wet weather, so the people cover it with new layers of paint with different colors and so on.
Since that time I did experiments, worked different techniques that were developped in a more personal style, colorful, detailed and dense.
What qualifiers do you use when talking about paper ?
Smoothness, flexibility, malleability, brittleness, an endless choice of colors and textures.
What do you like most in what you do ?
Creation, the beginning of a project it has something exciting mixed with a small dose of apprehension. Not even knowing where we are heading, feel, try to innovate, create a new story, a new aesthetic, then find the idea to be developed and finally produced it. In fact it’s the creative process that I love.
In your imagination, is paper hot or cold?
I think the paper is a hot material, because of its plant fibers.
If you’re in a mood for doing yourself some paper craft, then visit Minieco this site run by Kate Lilley is a great place to get free templates for the most graphic Valentine’s card, Christmas wraps, sweet decorations and many other printable templates. The design are simple but always bold, and with a great style !
Paper donut has just launched their wew paper installation. Photographed by Tom Joye, “The Office” is entirely made of paper.
Paper Donut is the portfolio of Alexis Facca, a french freelance designer specialized in paper art and set design, often collaborating with other artists. Evolving in a geometric and colorful world, he’s been working for various clients on illustration, motion, set design, graffiti.
Aldous Massie is an artist, designer and illustrator living in Sydney, Australia. His retro-futuristic illustrations are outstanding. A very original style for art and design, including collaborative work with famous art directors and photographers worldwide.
Jie Liu is a Chinese artist and photographer working in Munich, Germany. After studying sculpture in the Academy of Fine Arts in Xi’an, China, he studied fine arts from 2004 to 2011 at the school of Art and Design Kassel. In his current work, Jie Liu focuses on global non-places series. Those isolated places have no particular identity and are positioned like faceless and emotionless models. A digital manipulation mixes the idea of reality and simulation creating spaces without any human being.
Etienne Bardelli is a French renowned artist and graphic designer working in Paris. He is famous for his sleeve design, pattern design, wallpaper design and contemporary sculptures, photographs or monumental installations. During ten years he created record covers and label identities, including Institubes A.D., Rise identity, TTC artworks and sleeves for early EP of Tacteel, Paraone, Dj Orgasmic, Teki Latex, Yuksek, Jupiter, Anoraak among others… Etienne Bardelli has just updated his online portfolio.
