Design Your Own Paper Lamp
Complex Folding Techniques: Scoring the Lotus Shade Pattern
A course by Kate Colin , Paper-Folding Artist
About the video: Complex Folding Techniques: Scoring the Lotus Shade Pattern
Overview
“In this lesson we will continue to use scoring tools, pencils and rulers to create new designs. We will start to combine double V folds to create a variety of diamond shapes and structure with the V fold as a basic technique. This is good practice as the final shade will be in this design. ”
In this video lesson Kate Colin addresses the topic: Complex Folding Techniques: Scoring the Lotus Shade Pattern, 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
“Complex Folding Techniques: Scoring the Lotus Shade Pattern In this lesson, we'll practise using more V folds and combining them with double V folds to create the pattern we'll be using for your final lotus shade. First of all, if you take a piece of paper measuring 34 cm in height and 30 cm in width. Again, this is slightly thicker paper. This is 270 GSM. The first thing we're going to do is score vertical lines, making division five centimetres apart, so we'll be using the same method that we used in the last lesson. Take a pencil and a ruler and just make little marks every five centimet...”
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Course summary for: Design Your Own Paper Lamp
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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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