Day 215 - Paper art: exhibition CODA Paper Art 2013

Paper is a great material. It inspires designers to create the most amazing and creative art works, such as dresses, jewels, objects.

At CODA, a museum in Apeldoorn (the Netherlands), there is a large exhibition: Paper Art.
Works of no less than 23 artists and 16 jewelry designers of both the Netherlands and abroad can be seen.

Below you see a few examples. Want to see more? Visit the website and/or the museum.

Anouk Vogel

Peter Callesen

Day 182 - Graphic design: Creative and tasty Sandwich Book

Graphic designer Pawel Piotrowski (Poland) designed a very tasty book... a book you almost want to eat...

The pages of the so-called Sandwich Book look like a realistic and tasty sandwich: lettuce, tomato, chess, egg, meat...

Have a nice meal!

By the way, Pawl is still looking for a publisher.
Contact him if you like this book and want to help him.

Day 156 - Paper art: free creative and colorful printables for kids

Mr Printables is a website with creative and colorful paper craft for kids:
puzzles, paper dolls, invitations, hats and - my favorite - finger puppets such as snakes and birds.

Below you find a few examples (Source: Mr Printables)

The templates can be downloaded for free and they are easy to make.

Day 128 - Paper art: delicate and beautiful papercuts

Below you see three paper cuts made by Peter Callesen.

Peter Callesen is a paper artist: through delicate cuts he transforms ordinary sheets of A4 paper into real pieces of artwork. Each sheet transforms slowly into a story: sometimes dramatic, sometimes, romantic...

My favorite one is the first one, entitled 'Holding on to Myself.
Simple, minimalistic and at the same time dramatic and exciting.

Holding on to Myself, Peter Callesen (2006)

The End of the Road, Peter Callesen (2010)

Running Fire II, Peter Callesen (2010)

Day 48 - Creative Paper Art

These beautiful illustrations are created by Eiko Ojalo.

Eiko Ojala lives in Estonia. He works as an illustrator and graphic designer.
What I like most about is paper art are the colors an the detail.

Visit his website to see more of his work.

Day 17 - Not just a shopping bag

Shopping bags are often not more than a plastic or paper bag with a logo on it.
Quite boring... 

But some store do a lot better than that! 

They offer creative and attractive bags.
Here are some of them.

Creative shopping bags

Day 11 - Sarah Illenberger speaks in images

One of the designers-illustrators I admire a lot is
SARAH ILLENBERGER.

She uses simple materials such as paper, food, textiles
and wood to create new, vivid, often humorous images
that make stories come to life.




Sarah Illenberger: She Speaks in Images from Gestalten on Vimeo.