Shadow Sculptures: Illusions from Clumps of Junk
These chaotic and random collections of objects placed on pedestals don't seem gallery-worthy on first glance, but shine a light upon them in just the right way, and something magical occurs. ...
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Factory to Self-Fabrication: 14 3D-Printed Design Objects
The world of desktop 3D printing has made factory-style fabrication possibilities available to artists and designers, who turn digital models into three-dimensional solid objects with successive ...
Paper Cuts: 40 Puzzling Pop Culture Silhouettes
Some people - and characters - are so recognizable, we can tell who they are just by the outlines of their heads. All it takes is a few basic details, like a hat, a necklace or a certain ...
Stories Jump Out of the Pages with 3D Book Sculptures
Fiction favorites, from Gone with the Wind to Treasure Island, literally leap off the pages in three dimensions in Jodi Harvey-Brown's imaginative book paper sculptures. Harvey-Brown illustrates ...
Math + Paper Craft: Computer Scientist Creates 3D Origami
A single sheet of paper becomes a complex three-dimensional object in the hands of Jun Mitani, a computer scientist who uses geometric modeling software to aid him in his designs. Mitani has been ...
Tiny Toothpick Art Goes Far Behind Merely Miniature
A toothpick replica of the Eiffel Tower is impressive enough - but one San Francisco artist takes it much further than that, using shards of a single toothpick to build amazingly tiny, detailed ...
Topographic Tomes: More Carved Books by Guy Laramee
Sculptor Guy Laramee looks at the edges of paper bound in a book and sees infinite possibilities: hills, valleys, volcanoes and alien rock formations. The artist is known for carving books into ...
Giant Paper Flowers Bloom Inside Abbey Church in France
As if the ornate Gothic architecture in the Abbey church of Saint-Riquier in France wasn't beautiful enough already, it was temporarily filled with over 100 intricate and graceful paper flowers. ...
Salt Sculptures: 12 Stunning Artworks by Motoi Yamamoto
To many people around the world, salt is just a substance that makes food taste better. But to the Japanese, it's deeply symbolic, an indispensable part of death rituals that imparts purification ...
