Mr Yen is Jonathan Chapman, paper cut artist from Leeds (UK). He left University in 2010 for freelance pojects. His compositions are very well designed before being well crafted. All his pieces are created by hand, with a scalpel and each design is cut from one single sheet of paper, with all materials being sourced from the UK. Mr Yen works with companies and clients such as Oprah magazine, House & Garden magazine, Computer Arts magazine and Unilever/LYNX.
Blackmeal is a creative studio based in Paris and producing video projects for a wide array of supports, spanning from television and cinema to web and multiplatform productions. The company’s founders shared experiences in communication agencies, motion design, post-production and animation movies. Blackmeal actually offers a wide range of skills from concept development, pre-prod and production management to final delivery.
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.
Grégoire Alexandre is a French photographer known for his experiment and creative photographs featuring amazing set design and props. Sometimes collaborating with set designer Jean-Michel Bertin, he likes to create surreal installations and build sophisticated compositions for advertising, fashion or portrait. Represented in Europe by carolelambert.com and in the USA by cartelandco.com
Klub7 is a collective of German artist from Berlin and Halle (Saale), creating murals, customizations and illustrations since over a decade throughout the world. Together they’ve developed a collective trademark style that combines the diverse backgrounds of the six members (Otto Baum, Mike Okay, Lowskii, Kid Cash, Disko Robot, Dani Daphne): urban art, comics and pop culture on paper, wood, fabric and walls.
KLUB7 was founded in 1998 when some of the members moved to Berlin and opened a studio in Friedrichshain, in 2009 their presence in the urban-art-metropolis was cemented. Clients like BMW, Google, Converse, Edding, New Yorker and Levis are crazy about their ‘Berlin Flavour’; the classic graffiti writing that constitutes the base of the diverse techniques and materials in their portfolio. KLUB7 as an enterprise is not only the livelihood of the six members, but above all an artistic laboratory, wherein everything revolves around doing and experimenting.
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.
Onur Senturk is a designer and director who designed and animated “Triangle” that was awarded twice by Vimeo as best motion graphics and “Nokta” receiving an honorary mention from Ars Electronica in Computer Animation/Film/VFX category. He took part in several international and national collaborative exhibitions with works in both print and animation. Onur Senturk designed this year’s OFFF Cincinnati Opening Titles.
He is represented by Troublemakers, an award winning production company based in the heart of Paris.
Mick Theisen is a young guy from Luxembourg. Right now he is studying visual design in Germany and doing lots of paper works. Great colorful sets.
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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.
