Showing posts with label fold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fold. Show all posts

Saturday, 27 October 2012

From Sheet to Form




Flattened


Expanded


With the help of an excellent book, (Folding Techniques for Designers by Paul Jackman), I have again been working with plain white paper to explore the idea of form or a manipulated surface. Some of the more complex folds are quite difficult to construct without creasing the paper the wrong way despite having scored the paper first. A thinner paper can be easier to manipulate but is more likely to split when folded along a scored line. Thicker paper is harder to manipulate but will keep its form better and would also take a print.

The best two tips form the book:

1. Use the back of a scapel blade to score
2. How to fold accuratley without measuring - genius!



A digital print folded into a double concertina fold:
Same print expanded to reveal more of the print: