Design Your Own Paper Lamp
About Me
A course by Kate Colin , Paper-Folding Artist
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson, you will get to know me and my background a little better.”
In this video lesson Kate Colin addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design Your Own Paper Lamp. Create a unique origami-inspired lampshade by learning various paper-folding techniques and crease patterns.
Partial transcription of the video
“About Me In this lesson, I will tell you a bit about myself and my background. My name is Kate Colin and I'm a paper folding artist and lighting designer based in Scotland. I've always been interested in three-dimensional design, and I was first inspired to start paper folding through my dad's hobby of making polyhedral cardboard models. My dad was a mathematician, and I think I was influenced by his passion for precise angles and geometric form. About eight years ago, he lent me some of his books, which were published in the 1960s, which were about origami folding in maths. Although I didn...”
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Course summary for: Design Your Own Paper Lamp
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Arts & Crafts, Decoration, DIY, Furniture Design & Making, Lighting Design, Paper Craft
Kate Colin
A course by Kate Colin
Kate Colin is a paper-folding artist and lighting designer based in Glasgow. Her earliest memory of creating paper art was at the age of eight, when her mathematician father would make polyhedra models out of paper. Since then, she’s been creating handmade paper designs, with her first exhibition being The Lighthouse, Scotland's Center for Design and Architecture in Glasgow. After being awarded the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust, Kate had the opportunity to be mentored by the leading paper-folding artists in Switzerland and Italy as a QEST Scholar.
Her work has also been exhibited in London Design Fair and Manchester Craft & Design Center. She has received numerous awards from different organizations like The Heritage Craft Association, Visual Artist & Craft Maker Award (Creative Scotland), and Crafts Council Hothouse Programme. Her work has been featured in publications such as Stylist, Elle Decoration, Loader Monteith Architects, and FT Weekend. In addition to hosting workshops from her studios, she also takes private commissions from clients like V&A Dundee, Anncoc Whisket, and Charlotte’s Place, among others.
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