How to Make a Papercraft Rolex Watch « How-To News. Minitecture: Awesomely Artistic Tiny Paper Buildings. Sharon is one of those many accidental artists who has stumbled upon an incredible art form and then explored it in a variety of compelling ways.
Using all kinds of business cards, packing paper, elegant stationary and other colorful sources she has shaped at least a city’s worth of magnificent miniature buildings. What started as a joint project with her husband to commemorate places they had visited with structures built from the scraps of paper associated with locations pass through its decorative phase and took on a life of its own – particularly once introduced to the internet. In some cases, Sharon models here mini-buildings on real-life structures – often those related to the paper material of which she is making them (e.g. a hotel from its brochure or a wedding venue from its invitation). In other cases she plays up the qualities inherent in the materials. Some of the tiny buildings she has posted online show their age through their form, wear and tear.
Unfolding Urbanism: 3D Pop-Up Paper Art of New York City. Despite being (literally) three-dimensional, pop-up books rarely have this kind of layered depth – each piece in this series has both an iconographic component and an (overlapping) physical built reality, depending upon what angle you ‘read’ it from.
Daisy Lew designed each work with a piece of recognizable pop cultural, architectural or other relevant symbol that is visible when folded open and viewed from above, including the classic Big Apple, Empire State Building, ? Statue of Liberty and the ubiquitous orange taxi cab. Paper City: Cool Origami Island & Colorful Castle Complex. Four years of blood, sweat and tears – yet not a drop to tarnish this incredible miniature city – an unprecedented work of origami art complete with moving parts, from motorized paper trains to real working electric lights.
Working with only the simplest modeling tools, Japanese artist Wataru Itou constructed this fantastic set of integrated structures using basic knives, scissors, hole punches and modeling glue. Aesthetically somewhere between an idealized fairy-tale castle and an island fortress, the work takes on different moods with the shifting of its incredibly complex and spectrum-spanning colored lighting system. And the architecture is not the whole story: sidewalks, streets, paths and doorways interconnect everything just as they would in a real-life city – cranes and construction equipment dot the landscape, implying a never-ending work in progress.