Design Your Own Paper Lamp
Double V Folds
A course by Kate Colin , Paper-Folding Artist
About the video: Double V Folds
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to continue working with V folds and start to see the many shapes and designs we can create from this one simple fold. Once you have mastered it and understood how it works, you will be able to create a great number of patterns and designs.”
In this video lesson Kate Colin addresses the topic: Double V Folds, 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
“Double V Folds In this lesson, we will continue to work with V folds and discover the many shapes and designs we can create from this one simple fold. In the last lesson, you may remember, we started with a basic V fold. Just a single one on a square piece of paper. Like this, remember, we'd folded the paper in half and made one diagonal line. Then when unfolded, we got the V fold like this with three folds, one mountain here, two mountains there and a valley. I just want to show you a different type of fold. If we go back to where we were and we've made one diagonal fold, I want to show yo...”
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Course summary for: Design Your Own Paper Lamp
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Category
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Areas
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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