Mazakii is Jing Zhang’s online portfolio. Hailing from Foshan, southern China, Jing is an illustrator and graphic designer based in East London. Since about 5 years she’s working for the advertising and publishing industry, from automotive to airlines, magazines to corporations. Jing is represented by YCN in UK.
Kevin Cyr is an artist from New-York City who creates contemporary installations and oil paintings mostly about vehicles and mobile homes.
With some realistic old fashion representation he did these great van series. His large-scale installations also explore the idea of shelters and mobility, like ‘camper kart’ a twisted pop up camper constructed out of shopping carts.
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.
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.
> To discover some of the best paper set & prop design.
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.
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.
