Design Your Own Paper Lamp
Making the Lamp: Folding the Paper 1
A course by Kate Colin , Paper-Folding Artist
About the video: Making the Lamp: Folding the Paper 1
Overview
“Now we will do the actual folding and construction of the lamp. It is a gradual process and will take quite a while. Watch me folding and learn how to do it yourself.”
In this video lesson Kate Colin addresses the topic: Making the Lamp: Folding the Paper 1, 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
“Making the Lamp: Folding the Paper In this lesson, we'll continue making your lotus shade. You should have your four pieces of paper, which we prepared in the last lesson, and we're going to join these together to make one long piece. Let's start attaching these pieces of paper together. We're going to start with a smaller white, which measures 30 cm, and you've already scored this into six columns. I always put colour on top of the tape. I'm going to unpeel the tape. And attach the first section of colour. This takes a bit of skill and practice. You have to do it as carefully as possible a...”
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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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