Lezione Crispin Jones

In my stream of the workshop the activity involves creating a 3d representation of the object being designed. This object is to be used in the video that documents the overall activity as well as in the graphical document that are the other two deliverables on the workshop.

The constraint on the design of this object is that it must be produced in paper. There are several reasons for this: paper is readily available and inexpensive, we all have some experience of building things in it, you can use various forms of software to create patterns for it (or importantly you can just cut it without using any computer at all) and finally lends the objects made in the workshop an overall visual coherence.

Although the objects will be made in paper this does not imply that they are made poorly or in an unconsidered way. Rather the opposite - we expect each object to be carefully crafted and ambitious in aim. I found some links to people who are making interesting things with paper

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Commoncraft produce educational videos that explain sometimes complex subjects using extremely simple elements made from paper. Their work is very interesting because the simplicity of the communication belies the level of care and thought that goes into producing the videos.
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Canon operates a website called Creative Park where visitors can download patterns to produce models from paper. The site is a fantastic repository of techniques for shaping paper in many and various ways (almost all the models feature large areas of flat colour, the better to use up your printer ink and encourage you to buy more from Canon...)



In the first day of building we constructed two of the models from the site - representations of the Copernican and Ptolemaic views of the universe.

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Martin Postler is a recent graduate of the RCA, he created a 1:1 scale replica of the AK-47 gun entirely from paper.

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Peter Callensen is a Danish Artist who makes most of his work from single sheets of A4 paper. He cuts the paper with virtuoso levels of skill to create small sculptures, they are conceptually a little weak, but still impressive.

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Thomas Demand could probably rival Callensen in the virtuoso stakes, but has an added layer of conceptual complexity. He is a contemporary artist who builds miniature replicas of environments and interiors entirely from paper. The photographs have an extraordinary quality, rendered even more poetic by the fact that he destroys the models once they have been photographed.