Design Your Own Paper Lamp
Caring for Your Lotus Lampshade
A course by Kate Colin , Paper-Folding Artist
About the video: Caring for Your Lotus Lampshade
Overview
“Here are some useful recommendations for your lampshade care.”
In this video lesson Kate Colin addresses the topic: Caring for Your Lotus Lampshade, 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
“In this lesson, we're going to talk about living with your shade and how best to care for it. So paper is a flammable material, so it's essential that you use an LED lightbulb that doesn't get too hot. We'll talk more about this later. But before that, I thoroughly recommend that you use an anti-flammable spray. Now it's not essential, but it's just something to put your mind at rest. If you can spray your paper with it, It just makes sure that it's completely safe. You can check with your own country's regulations and just see what they recommend. But if you have the choice to do it, I wou...”
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Course summary for: Design Your Own Paper Lamp
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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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