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10.30.11transforming 2d font to 3dBy taking a digital version of his origami typeface, Chris Berthe created a new set of letters in 3D using paper and an x-acto knife.
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10.11.11Origami by Yoba YaboYoba Yabo, a Visual Communication Design student at Rangsit University created an awesome origami typeface. It comes in four different styles: normal, divide, stroke and shade. The application you see in the image above is an example of the style, shade.
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06.15.10Flower of LifeA symbol of sacred geometry, the Flower of Life is composed of multiple evenly-spaced, overlapping circles, that are arranged so that they form a flower-like pattern with a sixfold symmetry like a hexagon. The center of each circle is on the circumference of six surrounding circles of the same diameter. Because numbers carried symbolic significance in the Old World, geometric shapes became a visual representation of these symbolic numbers and was involved in the planning and construction of many religious structures, including churches and temples. (Read an article written last year regarding Islamic Architecture.) Natural examples of the Flower of ...
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06.08.10Origami Maze Puzzle FontErik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, and Jason Ku over at MIT created an origami maze puzzle font, which is a template that shows you how to fold 3D letters of the entire alphabet. (c) Crease Pattern of the Alphabet: Dark lines are mountain folds; light lines are valley folds; bold lines delineate letter boundaries and are not folds. (c: Crease Pattern) folds into (b: 3D extrusion), which is an extrusion of (a: 2D maze)
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05.28.10Bored? Make LoveAfter all the love making, sleeping and staring off into space, might this poster inspire some more love making activity? Lovely origami hearts that is.
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05.27.10origami typefaces 2Enjoyed our previous batch of typefaces? here's more... By Barrett Biggers By Andrea Zeman
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04.19.10Stop Designing Start PlayingI was admiring Coralie Bickford-Smith's clothbound bookcover designs for penguin classics and stumbled to this nice message: Stop Designing Start Playing. I like how the message expresses origami exploration by folding paper in an abstract way rather than a specific object.
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07.01.09Giota Kaiopoulou: 13th Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and MediterraneanA shining star Giota Kaiopoulou from Thessaloniki, Greece did a spectacular job blending two very complicated arts together - origami and fashion. Started in 2004, Giota was a pioneer weaving these two concepts together. She created this project titled, "Origami Flowers", which was also the perfect final project for her Fashion Degree at a local university in Greece. What a visionary Giota is because today we see origami fashion everywhere! Upon her graduation, she applied and was accepted for the 13th Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and Mediterranean. It is sponsored by the International Assocation of the Biennial of Young ...
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06.01.09Simon Schubert from GermanyMany thanks to Joe Keylon of BACE (Business and Creative Exchange) for sending me Simon Schubert's jaw dropping portfolio. What makes Mr. Schubert's work exceptional is his ability to blend contrasting techniques (2d vs. 3d, negative vs. positive space, and valley vs. mountain folds) into objects, figures and people we can all relate to - all with a simple piece of paper. Because paper's very first fold quickly commits to memory, you can sense the experience, confidence, and patience Mr. Schubert has with each and every fold - and these traits inspire me deeply.
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02.02.09Web 2.0rigamiI like the origami-inspired icons illustrator Paddy Donnelly created - it's based on programs we use daily, from the email to social networking. The results he created is really fun.
