Stumbled upon the work of Tara Donovan while working on my project.  Really got me thinking about medium and how different materials can have different connotations.

More of her work here.

Some seriously gorgeous furniture design by Elisa Strozyk:

Can we all get an appreciative ‘damnnnnn’ for this?

Her site is here. Check it.

Robert J Lang talks about his artistic process as an origami artist:

Some examples of origami replacing other soft materials in clothing and fashion: 

http://tinyurl.com/8jp68g3

http://tinyurl.com/9o3hb2j

Trying my hand at folding bluebirds:

Simple instructions: http://www.origami-fun.com/origami-bird.html

http://www.thecoolist.com/papercraft-perfection-10-amazing-master-origami-artists/

I first came across this website and learned about a variety of artists who use paper as their primary medium, along with origami artists, I read about the multitude of techniques within origami.

I found Ingrid Siliakus and Richard Sweeny’s work to be most intriguing.

Ingrid Siliakus makes sculptural forms out of paper. This is a unique form of origami because in a sense it represents a contradiction, as well as a way to take architecture out of its normal context. Architectural structures are typically thought to be concrete, yet these structures are simply made from paper therefore it brings on the question of whether  Ingrid’s sculptures  are simple mecets of structures, or architectural structures themselves.

Richard Sweeny creates sculptural geometric forms possessed an elegance that one typically does not allocate to paper.

I then decided to look up how to go about making these two types of origami styles, and found these tutorials to be the most helpful:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/dnU6TgFfP
(this type of origami is considered “Kirigami”)

http://www.youtube.com/embed/HDqCG2bUFIQ

Here are the two artists I would like the class to look at; Christo & Jeanne-Claude and Do Ho Suh.

Using fabric, the couple have been creating work on a gigantic scale. Their main work includes Wrapped Reichstag in Berlin, The Gates in Central Park, NYC, and Over The River in Colorado.

www.christojeanneclaude.net

Some of Do Ho Suh’s installation work such as Home within Home and Reflection were made of synthetic resin and polyester fabric.

http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/artists/do-ho-suh

I came across these really beautiful origami vases and vessels by Rebecca Geiseking. I don’t quite know how to explain it, but it almost feels like her work is breathing. You can see her flickr here.

I’m really interested in Oragami tessellations also. I found this handy little basic reference for it here (pay attention to the page numbers, it was intended to be printed and made into a book, so if you are reading it online, the pages are out of order. I’ve been fumbling around with it, but to limited success. Very interested in experimenting with rastering the pre-creasing with the laser cutter.
Here is a nifty little time lapse of a really intense tessellation. There are also a bunch of tutorials on youtube if you poke around.

Tim Prentice:
particularly ‘Biplane’, ‘Proposal’, and ‘Yellow Zingers’

Bart Hess:

Johnathan Brilliant:

his works aren’t necessarily soft (this particular one is made from woven toothpicks), but they have a similar soft, organic appearance to Ernesto Neto’s work

Onishi Yasuaki

Hong Seon Jang

ARTISTS

• Lygia Clark (b. 1920 in Belo Horizonte, Brasil; d. 1988
  • Lygia Clark Foundation
  • The I and the You: Clothing/Body/Clothing
• Jan Švankmajer (b. 1934 in the Czech Republic)
  • Meat Love [1989]
  • Darkeness, Light, Darkness [1989]
• Bernie Lubell (b. 1947 in USA)
  • Installations [1990-]
• Anne Hamilton (b. 1956 in Ohio, USA)
  • On wikipedia
• Ernesto Neto (b. 1964 in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
  • On designboom
• Carsten Nicolai (b. 1965 in Germany)
  • wellenwanne lfo [2012]
• Clive Murphy (b. 197x in Ireland)
  • Inflatables
• Pierre-laurent Cassier (b. 198x in France)
  • Sine (with Juliana Borinski) [2002], Sine reco(r)ded [2008]
• Casey Droege (b. 198x in Pittsburgh, USA)
  • Intimate Apparel [2003-2007]

CONTEMPORARY DESIGN

• OSTRICH: portable nap facilitator
• Soft Robots by OtherLab
• Airworks