Advanced Papercraft Techniques: Designing with Paper
The decoration
A course by Diana Beltran Herrera , Industrial Designer
Joined October 2017
About the video: The decoration
Overview
“In this lesson we will make the decoration that we define in our sketch and I will give you some ideas on how to make different types of flat and three-dimensional decoration. ”
In this video lesson Diana Beltran Herrera addresses the topic: The decoration, which is part of the Domestika online course: Advanced Papercraft Techniques: Designing with Paper. Explore the possibilities of paper by transforming designs into volumetric shapes.
Partial transcription of the video
“[Music] In this lesson I am going to explain to you How are we going to remove the decoration? And lastly, how are we going to place it on our cover? I have selected a photo on the internet, that has caught my attention In fact, it is not a real photograph, but rather an illustration. As I already told you, I really like starting from drawings, of illustrations or vectors when making my decoration because they have much more developed color and it is much more simplified than if I did of a photograph, so to speed up my work what I always do is look for a flower that it comes on a white back...”
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Course summary for: Advanced Papercraft Techniques: Designing with Paper
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Design, Paper Craft, Sculpture, Traditional illustration

Diana Beltran Herrera
A course by Diana Beltran Herrera
After graduating as an industrial designer from the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá, Diana decided to explore design from a more experimental perspective, studying the different qualities of cheap and ordinary materials such as paper and cardboard and developing simple ways to transform them and give them a new value and use.
Nature and animals are very present in Diana Beltrán's work, which she explores endlessly through papercraft.
Her work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the United States, where she has participated in group and solo shows. She has also worked for international clients in editorial design, advertising, window dressing, events, and interior design projects, working for 215 McCann, Olivari Olive Oil, Volevatch, Longwood Gardens US, ENI, Marina Rinaldi, Lebeau-Courally, James Cropper UK, Hodder and Stoughton UK, Horse Mag, On investing magazine, the Libertine Lindenberg Hotel, Restaurant Auberge de l'Ill, Mercedes Salazar, and UH Hospitals USA.
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