Exploring different possibilities in folding; approaching tessellations from a more organic angle.
My first attempt at this thought, not quite what I was envisioning but acceptable for the initial try.
Made from light green elephant hide, wetfolded.
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Richard Sweeney wins New Designer’s DKNY Award!
Congratulations go to Richard Sweeney for winning the New Designer’s 2006 DKNY Award.
Prize: £1,000 and showcase in DKNY London flagship store
Judges citation: “Beautifully hand crafted structures with multiple installation possibilities.”
Winner’s comment: “I work very hands on with the material and that’s the basis of my work. I like to make beautiful forms which is my main drive.”
cited from newdesigners.com
You can see more of Richard’s work on his Flickr photostream:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardsweeney
This is a great thing for Richard- I’m very pleased to see him getting more recognition and I hope this exposure brings him even more good fortune down the road. His work is absolutely brilliant and inspiring; I can’t wait to see what the future holds for him. Good work, Richard!
Redpaper origami blog – tessellated tortoise
Check out this tessellated tortoise from a great Korean origami blog (my origami blog RSS feed is starting to get almost unmanageable! so much to read each day, somehow I missed this post…) Thanks to Nicolas Terry and his wonderful origami news site for the link!
TACHI Tomohiro’s 3D Origami Teapot
TACHI Tomohiro makes the most amazing origami renditions of daily objects- a laptop, a twin lens reflex camera, and now a teapot. This is an absolutely astounding work. Follow the link to see his CP for this- it’s unreal. Wow!
http://www.tsg.ne.jp/TT/origami/teapot.html
UPDATE:
Check out another wonderful picture of this on Brian Chan’s flickr photo stream:
Iso-area offset triangle twist PDF
Iso-area offset triangle twist
Playing around with different angles, came up with this interesting modification on an old favorite. It’s iso-area, has several layers to it (in a Joel Cooper-esque way, to me) and is a bit different than anything I’ve folded before. There’s something unique in the way that you can manipulate pleats to get extra layers of paper moving around in there. This is a new area of exploration for me.
Would look good, no doubt, from elephant hide. I’ll give it a try once my latest order shows up.
For the curious, I put up a fancy crease pattern document in PDF format available for download from my website.