Kelli Anderson is an artist/designer from New-York City. Her drawings, photographs, paper cuts, prints, codes, and the variety of designed things she creates are awesome. She also teaches art history at Pratt every summer. Kelli Anderson has created a very nice series of paper types for a recent talk at Typo San Francisco… These white on white experiments cut, shaped and folded out of paper only are fantastic…
David Delin aka 28162 is a French digital artist, member of the Kingdom Design Union. His compositions are very detailed. David Delin’s work goes from illustration to photo manipulation with some nice collaborations with fellow photographers. Represented by creasenso.
Artisme is a French artist collective doing large scale street art. They mainly draw unknown homeless people.
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.
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.
Jennifer Collier is a famous paper artist from the UK. Her practice focuses on producing unusual paper ‘fabrics’, which are used to explore the ‘remaking’ of household objects. The papers are recycled maps, postal cards or letters, then treated as if cloth (main technique employed being stitch) a contemporary twist on traditional textiles. More paper inspiration on the Facebook page “Paper Art Trends“.
The South Korean illustration agency Magnet Creatives has just joined our illustration directory which is a list of agents or representatives listed by countries and that you can easily browse through images. A useful tool for creative people looking for illustrators.
French illustration agencies are updated in our illustration reps directory. This is a visual tool, listed by images and very easy to browse. You may find here the illustrator or agent you’re looking for and I am starting here with 30 French and Belgian agencies. NB: we are just a personal blog, not an illustration agency.
Carole Wilmet is a Belgian illustrator and graphic designer based in Liege and Luxembourg. She started as a freelance illustrator two years ago after studying graphic design. She says being inspired by the everyday life, people, nature, the fashion industry, old photographs, clothes… Carole Wilmet usually use pencils and inks and loves playing with types. Represented (ouside UK) by Kot-illustration.
Zara Picken is an illustrator based in the North East of England. Working internationally creating illustrations for editorial, publishing, advertising and even more. ??Influenced by mid-century modern design, she has an interest in old paper-based ephemera. Her work combines digital and handmade elements. Among her clients are: AARP, Appelberg Publishing, August Media, Bayard Jeunesse, Bulletin Magazine, Charter Media, Delicious Magazine, Futurelab, ForbesLife Magazine, The Guardian, Haymarket, Harvard Medicine, London 2012 Olympics, Lonely Planet, Macmillan Publishing, The National Trust, The Observer, Pearson, WIRED and many more.
