Marine Coutroutsios is a French artist based in Sydney. She studied visual arts, worked as a sculptor and as an interior designer before to start freelancing. Marine Coutroutsios creates eye-catching site-specific installations : window displays, commercials, temporary events, and more. She directed a series of short films (see below) where she does paper cuts in some welcoming cafes in Sydney.
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…
Pinterest is one of the most interesting tool to review and share your inspiration on the internet. Since a few months it has improved several functions and I must confess I’ve stopped using most of its challengers… So if you don’t already use Pinterest, just go for it !
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.
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.
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.
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“.
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.
