Their multi-layered artwork is meant to draw the viewer inside within its paper folds. A work of storytelling, as much as work of craftsmanship, each piece can take between 8 to 10 days to complete depending on its size and intricacy. “The idea of using paper as a sculpting medium and forming 3D dioramas is something that is really new,” the paper artists relayed in an interview with ACTFAQs, “but there is a fresh wave of artists trying out paper art.”

“Our art is a collaborative process,” they further explained, “so it might be something we come across during our travel or something we imagine. We then sketch it out and hand-cut these intricate layers. The next phase is putting the layers together, depending on how it interacts with light, making some last-minute tweaks. This is the most crucial part of our work.”

Based in Mumbai, you can see Hari & Deepti’s work online, through their buzzing Instagram page, or in exhibitions around the world. “We have worked and developed this style which is very unique,” they stress. “We are still pushing ourselves within this art form to tell these stories in a better way.”

Below you’ll find some of our favorite pieces by them:

The post Hari & Deepti’s Shadow Boxes Are Simply Magical appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Inspired by the world around her, Houdé-Diebolt translates the banalities of the day to day into works of magic. Under her skillful hands, the colorful pieces of paper transform into objects that include headphones, mugs, toy trains and even a vintage rotary telephone.

Based in Paris, Houdé-Diebolt actually started out as a textile designer, having graduated from the École Supérieure d’Arts Appliqués Duperré in 2007. “When I decided to become a freelancer, I started by creating textile patterns for a few brands,” she recalled in an interview with Strictly Paper. “But that didn’t fit my need. I needed to craft things. To manipulate and touch materials and colors. That’s how I came to paper.”

“Colors, patterns, and materials are a real passion to me,” adds the French designer. “It always has been this way. I also learned the Traditional Chinese paper technique in a design institute in China.”

Her Instagram page is an endless source of inspiration and color. Scroll down to see some of her selected work:

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Despite being made out of delicate material, Velliquette’s creations display a surprising level of durability and stability. Case in point below.

“Paper comes in endless forms,” the artist told Colosall in a recent chat. “It can be used in multiple dimensions. It is easy to handle and manipulate, and it is available anywhere. It is inherently ephemeral, but given the right conditions, it can last for centuries.”

Over the course of his 20-year career, Velliquette had 150 exhibitions in museums and galleries all over the world. His work is in part of the permanent collection in Chazen Museum of Art; the Art Museum of South Texas; the Racine Art Museum; The John Michael Kohler Art Center; and others.

Check out more of his works below.

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Jump forward a decade later and she now works with clients as big as Nike, Adidas, and YouTube, with a following of more than 20k fans on Instagram alone. She also runs papercutting workshops for brands, events, and festivals, teaching hundreds of people at venues such as The Royal Academy of Art, The V&A Museum, and The Southbank Centre.

A creative at heart, Chancellor’s artistic passion was there from the very start. “My upbringing was very ramshackle,” she admitted in an interview with Bibelot Magazine. “No rules and lots of creative outlets, I used to draw all over my bedroom walls.”

“Paper is such a familiar thing to us, something that we’d probably just chuck in the bin,” she adds, talking about her practice. “I enjoy that I can elevate it and turn it into something really beautiful.” Below you’ll find some examples.

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A mother of two young sons, Elaine admits that she tends to her art during her kids’ naps. Each piece can take anything between a few hours to a few days to complete. “I often have only a vague idea of what I want to make when I get to work,” she notes on her website adding that sometimes the end result is vastly different from what she originally had in mind.

“My love of animals and color is unabashedly on display in my pieces, and I hope they bring you as much joy when you view them as it brings me to create them,” she writes. Indeed, her work reflects her love for the patterns and shapes found in nature. Tigers, monkeys, and snakes are all to be expected, alongside paper-cut plants, colored in black, pink, and blue.

“I’m drawn to the bold contrast between the saturated colors of the tissue paper and the bright white background upon which they are adhered,” says Elaine. Take a look at some of her work in the gallery below and share with us your favorites.

The post Stacey Elaine Hand Cuts Animals Out of Tissue Paper appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I tried to fold along the profile of a face, and I realized that I could tweak the paper on either side just very slightly and ease curves out to give volume and form. When I tried the same technique in watercolor paper, I suddenly had micro-control over the resulting curved forms and they became soft and sensual. So each face goes on to inform the next and they have become a sort of series,” the artist told Colossal and added that her artworks have been exhibited in galleries worldwide.

She is also on social media, where she regularly posts images of her creations. You can find her on Instagram where she has attracted more than 29,000 followings.

Scroll down and check out her pieces below.

The post Enchanting Paper Folding Sculptures Created By Polly Verity appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“The entire project is representing the power of reading,” he told A’ Design Award and Competition’s blog. “I wanted to challenge myself with a passion project using paper craft to elevate my favorite stories into surreal and imaginative works of art,” he explained the thought process behind his viral series. “I wanted to create a conversation and a guessing game between the viewer of the art and the books they represented.”

According to Watts, in a digital world it’s becoming harder to dedicate time to the classic paperback but reading from screens makes us read slower, learn less deeply, remember less, and sleep worse. “This is why students prefer to print out their electronic textbooks,” he says. “This is ‘The Power of the Paperback’.”

Which, of course, makes his day job all the more ironic. A multidisciplinary communication designer, Watts specializes in brand activation, promotional material, digital content, and conceptual development for brands and film or TV projects.

Take a look at some of his book sculptures in the gallery below.

The post Todd Watts Pays Homage to His Favorite Books appeared first on MobiSpirit.

With a BA in Industrial Design from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University and an MA in Fine Arts from UWE, Herrera’s studies included researching different materials. According to her website, her interest in economic materials in general, is based on their potential of transformation, using the simplest of techniques.

“When I started to work with paper, I was developing very structural elements,” she told My Modern Met. “I used to have a lot of strips of paper that I used to cut and glue to form a volume.” Much like patterns found in nature, her sculptures comprehend massive groups of elements that together compose a major complex system.

According to Herrera, there’s inherent flexibility with paper. “I spend a lot of hours collecting images of the subject in different positions, then I do some reading to find the right measurements,” she explains. Her finished products are exhibited in solo and group shows around the world. But you can also follow her online, via Instagram.

The post The Birds and the Bees: This Paper Artist is Worth Following appeared first on MobiSpirit.

His Endangered Species series is supported by the philanthropic organization Acts of Kindness, and is also in partnership with World Wildlife Fund Philippines, with the aim to educate the public about the plight of at-risk animals. According to Cabral, a portion of the sales from this collection has gone towards supporting nature preservation in the Philippines.

But what is even more incredible, is that Cabral doesn’t limit himself to only paper. A multi-disciplinary artist through and through, his talents include calligraphy, sculpting, web designing, and even app development. His creative career actually began with web developing and animating, having worked for corporate branding and digital advertising, as well as fashion websites.

According to his personal website, he first found his artistic voice when he was only 11-years-old and when he took an odd job of writing the names of graduating students’ high school diplomas. Who would’ve imagined this would only be the beginning of an incredibly fruitful career?

The post Multi-Disciplinary Artist Carves Animals Out of Paper appeared first on MobiSpirit.

And so, after five years of graphic design studies, and four years working as a junior art director, during which she moved around quite a bit, hopping back and forth between Montreal, Paris, and London, Bee decided to take a leap of faith into paper art. Now based in Berlin, she runs her own creative studio alongside other fashion designers and illustrators.

A paper prop maker, among other things, her creations include paper food, animals, and objects, ranging from the miniature to room-sized sculptures. And much like her creations, Bee’s inspiration consists mainly of paper.

“I have a box full of sketchbooks, lonely sheets of paper, Post-its, napkins… all waiting to be presented and used,” she said, noting the paper items in her possession. “I also keep all the sketches from previous projects. They’re not useful anymore, but I have fondness for them. I can recall the time I discussed that idea with someone and scribbled out the project. It’s not just a napkin anymore; it’s a real memory!”

We highly recommend you follow her on Instagram.

The post This Art Director Finds Inspiration in Paper appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Their multi-layered artwork is meant to draw the viewer inside within its paper folds. A work of storytelling, as much as work of craftsmanship, each piece can take between 8 to 10 days to complete depending on its size and intricacy. “The idea of using paper as a sculpting medium and forming 3D dioramas is something that is really new,” the paper artists relayed in an interview with ACTFAQs, “but there is a fresh wave of artists trying out paper art.”

“Our art is a collaborative process,” they further explained, “so it might be something we come across during our travel or something we imagine. We then sketch it out and hand-cut these intricate layers. The next phase is putting the layers together, depending on how it interacts with light, making some last-minute tweaks. This is the most crucial part of our work.”

Based in Mumbai, you can see Hari & Deepti’s work online, through their buzzing Instagram page, or in exhibitions around the world. “We have worked and developed this style which is very unique,” they stress. “We are still pushing ourselves within this art form to tell these stories in a better way.”

Below you’ll find some of our favorite pieces by them:

The post Hari & Deepti’s Shadow Boxes Are Simply Magical appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Inspired by the world around her, Houdé-Diebolt translates the banalities of the day to day into works of magic. Under her skillful hands, the colorful pieces of paper transform into objects that include headphones, mugs, toy trains and even a vintage rotary telephone.

Based in Paris, Houdé-Diebolt actually started out as a textile designer, having graduated from the École Supérieure d’Arts Appliqués Duperré in 2007. “When I decided to become a freelancer, I started by creating textile patterns for a few brands,” she recalled in an interview with Strictly Paper. “But that didn’t fit my need. I needed to craft things. To manipulate and touch materials and colors. That’s how I came to paper.”

“Colors, patterns, and materials are a real passion to me,” adds the French designer. “It always has been this way. I also learned the Traditional Chinese paper technique in a design institute in China.”

Her Instagram page is an endless source of inspiration and color. Scroll down to see some of her selected work:

The post The Incredible Paper Props of Aline Houdé-Diebolt appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Despite being made out of delicate material, Velliquette’s creations display a surprising level of durability and stability. Case in point below.

“Paper comes in endless forms,” the artist told Colosall in a recent chat. “It can be used in multiple dimensions. It is easy to handle and manipulate, and it is available anywhere. It is inherently ephemeral, but given the right conditions, it can last for centuries.”

Over the course of his 20-year career, Velliquette had 150 exhibitions in museums and galleries all over the world. His work is in part of the permanent collection in Chazen Museum of Art; the Art Museum of South Texas; the Racine Art Museum; The John Michael Kohler Art Center; and others.

Check out more of his works below.

The post You’ll Have a Hard Time Believing These Sculptures are Made of Paper appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Jump forward a decade later and she now works with clients as big as Nike, Adidas, and YouTube, with a following of more than 20k fans on Instagram alone. She also runs papercutting workshops for brands, events, and festivals, teaching hundreds of people at venues such as The Royal Academy of Art, The V&A Museum, and The Southbank Centre.

A creative at heart, Chancellor’s artistic passion was there from the very start. “My upbringing was very ramshackle,” she admitted in an interview with Bibelot Magazine. “No rules and lots of creative outlets, I used to draw all over my bedroom walls.”

“Paper is such a familiar thing to us, something that we’d probably just chuck in the bin,” she adds, talking about her practice. “I enjoy that I can elevate it and turn it into something really beautiful.” Below you’ll find some examples.

The post Poppy Chancellor’s Paper Art is Fierce appeared first on MobiSpirit.

A mother of two young sons, Elaine admits that she tends to her art during her kids’ naps. Each piece can take anything between a few hours to a few days to complete. “I often have only a vague idea of what I want to make when I get to work,” she notes on her website adding that sometimes the end result is vastly different from what she originally had in mind.

“My love of animals and color is unabashedly on display in my pieces, and I hope they bring you as much joy when you view them as it brings me to create them,” she writes. Indeed, her work reflects her love for the patterns and shapes found in nature. Tigers, monkeys, and snakes are all to be expected, alongside paper-cut plants, colored in black, pink, and blue.

“I’m drawn to the bold contrast between the saturated colors of the tissue paper and the bright white background upon which they are adhered,” says Elaine. Take a look at some of her work in the gallery below and share with us your favorites.

The post Stacey Elaine Hand Cuts Animals Out of Tissue Paper appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I tried to fold along the profile of a face, and I realized that I could tweak the paper on either side just very slightly and ease curves out to give volume and form. When I tried the same technique in watercolor paper, I suddenly had micro-control over the resulting curved forms and they became soft and sensual. So each face goes on to inform the next and they have become a sort of series,” the artist told Colossal and added that her artworks have been exhibited in galleries worldwide.

She is also on social media, where she regularly posts images of her creations. You can find her on Instagram where she has attracted more than 29,000 followings.

Scroll down and check out her pieces below.

The post Enchanting Paper Folding Sculptures Created By Polly Verity appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“The entire project is representing the power of reading,” he told A’ Design Award and Competition’s blog. “I wanted to challenge myself with a passion project using paper craft to elevate my favorite stories into surreal and imaginative works of art,” he explained the thought process behind his viral series. “I wanted to create a conversation and a guessing game between the viewer of the art and the books they represented.”

According to Watts, in a digital world it’s becoming harder to dedicate time to the classic paperback but reading from screens makes us read slower, learn less deeply, remember less, and sleep worse. “This is why students prefer to print out their electronic textbooks,” he says. “This is ‘The Power of the Paperback’.”

Which, of course, makes his day job all the more ironic. A multidisciplinary communication designer, Watts specializes in brand activation, promotional material, digital content, and conceptual development for brands and film or TV projects.

Take a look at some of his book sculptures in the gallery below.

The post Todd Watts Pays Homage to His Favorite Books appeared first on MobiSpirit.

With a BA in Industrial Design from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University and an MA in Fine Arts from UWE, Herrera’s studies included researching different materials. According to her website, her interest in economic materials in general, is based on their potential of transformation, using the simplest of techniques.

“When I started to work with paper, I was developing very structural elements,” she told My Modern Met. “I used to have a lot of strips of paper that I used to cut and glue to form a volume.” Much like patterns found in nature, her sculptures comprehend massive groups of elements that together compose a major complex system.

According to Herrera, there’s inherent flexibility with paper. “I spend a lot of hours collecting images of the subject in different positions, then I do some reading to find the right measurements,” she explains. Her finished products are exhibited in solo and group shows around the world. But you can also follow her online, via Instagram.

The post The Birds and the Bees: This Paper Artist is Worth Following appeared first on MobiSpirit.

His Endangered Species series is supported by the philanthropic organization Acts of Kindness, and is also in partnership with World Wildlife Fund Philippines, with the aim to educate the public about the plight of at-risk animals. According to Cabral, a portion of the sales from this collection has gone towards supporting nature preservation in the Philippines.

But what is even more incredible, is that Cabral doesn’t limit himself to only paper. A multi-disciplinary artist through and through, his talents include calligraphy, sculpting, web designing, and even app development. His creative career actually began with web developing and animating, having worked for corporate branding and digital advertising, as well as fashion websites.

According to his personal website, he first found his artistic voice when he was only 11-years-old and when he took an odd job of writing the names of graduating students’ high school diplomas. Who would’ve imagined this would only be the beginning of an incredibly fruitful career?

The post Multi-Disciplinary Artist Carves Animals Out of Paper appeared first on MobiSpirit.

And so, after five years of graphic design studies, and four years working as a junior art director, during which she moved around quite a bit, hopping back and forth between Montreal, Paris, and London, Bee decided to take a leap of faith into paper art. Now based in Berlin, she runs her own creative studio alongside other fashion designers and illustrators.

A paper prop maker, among other things, her creations include paper food, animals, and objects, ranging from the miniature to room-sized sculptures. And much like her creations, Bee’s inspiration consists mainly of paper.

“I have a box full of sketchbooks, lonely sheets of paper, Post-its, napkins… all waiting to be presented and used,” she said, noting the paper items in her possession. “I also keep all the sketches from previous projects. They’re not useful anymore, but I have fondness for them. I can recall the time I discussed that idea with someone and scribbled out the project. It’s not just a napkin anymore; it’s a real memory!”

We highly recommend you follow her on Instagram.

The post This Art Director Finds Inspiration in Paper appeared first on MobiSpirit.