Design Your Own Paper Lamp
Making the Lamp: Folding the Paper 2
A course by Kate Colin , Paper-Folding Artist
About the video: Making the Lamp: Folding the Paper 2
Overview
“Now we're going to start folding the V folds in order to re-score them later on.”
In this video lesson Kate Colin addresses the topic: Making the Lamp: Folding the Paper 2, 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 We've finished scoring the lotus pattern design. We've rubbed out all the pencil guidelines. Just make sure that you clean your table at this point. Now we're going to turn it over. Now we're looking at the front side of the shade. You remember from the last lesson, this was the pattern. You've already had practice folding this type of design, and you remember each of the two sections make up one diamond shape. We're doing exactly the same as we did, but we're doing it on a much longer piece of paper. You remember the V shapes here, the V folds. You have o...”
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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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