Design Your Own Paper Lamp
Colour Palette
A course by Kate Colin , Paper-Folding Artist
About the video: Colour Palette
Overview
“We will start to think about colours we will be using for our lamp and how to go about choosing them”
In this video lesson Kate Colin addresses the topic: Colour Palette, 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
“Colour Palette In this lesson, we're going to talk about colour and how to go about selecting combinations to use on your lampshade. Colour plays a big part in my practice, and I love selecting shades and combinations to use in my different lampshades and work. Of course, you may decide to make your lamp completely white, and this will emit the most amount of light, and that's absolutely fine as well, but I would recommend maybe using one strip or two of colour just to add some colour to your home. Once you start working with paper, you'll be amazed to discover the huge variety of colours o...”
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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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