Design Your Own Paper Lamp
Final Touches
A course by Kate Colin , Paper-Folding Artist
About the video: Final Touches
Overview
“In this lesson you will learn how to install your lamp —my favourite part!”
In this video lesson Kate Colin addresses the topic: Final Touches, 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
“Final Touches In this lesson, we're going to install your lamp. My favourite part. I'd really recommend you buy a readymade set of lighting components consisting of a lamp holder, lighting wire and a plug. There are lots in the market now, and it's really easy to buy them already made for you. You can also find lots of creative ways of installing your lamp. Some people use special hooks, or you can hang them all around your house, hanging them off a bookshelf or anything you want to do. The lamps don't have to go in the centre of a room. Once you've got your lighting wire ready, I'll show y...”
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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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