Joan Michaels Paque I recently became aware of Joan’s amazing work due to a posting of hers on the Origami-L mailing list. She has a wonderful portfolio of art, crossing many genres and materials, including sculpture, textiles, paper and more. I highly recommend taking at look at her collections online, or in person if you have a chance. She’ll be doing a two-day workshop in early March 2006 in San Francisco, and also a Paper Arts course in Door County, Wisconsin in late July. (a little closer than SF to me, although any excuse to go to SF is a good one in my book.) Her

CITY Magazine: UN_FOLD video CITY Magazine sent out a challenge to 9 designers, asking them to build a chair in 90 days… with one small catch- it had to fit into a Fedex box. Some relatively interesting pleated/unfolding/geometric designs came up as a solution! Watch the video and see. (Quicktime required.)

Treehugger: Stutchbury and Pape’s House of the future : Cardboard I’ve seen this several times before, but it’s worth showing again. completely paper/cardboard built pre-fab house. neat-o. Linked via TreeHugger

Wow, I’ve only been live with this new format for a week or so and already I’m getting a bunch of comment spam. even with Captchas, etc in place… not so good. So, now all comments must be approved by me before they get posted. I don’t like doing this at all, but I’m not sure I have a choice- I’d love to engage people in conversation, but not at the cost of having hundreds of stupid posts from bots advertising bad things. ugh. If anyone has a better suggestion by all means let me know, so I can try it out!

Paper Lampshade Linked (along with a zillion other people) from Make: Magazine, to which I am a super-happy subscriber. this is yet another origami tessellation lamp-related post; check out previous mentions here and here and here and lastly here.