Beautiful Cut Paper Animal Masks by Flurry & Salk.

above: cut paper Ram mask designed for Hermes.

Meet Nikki Salk and Amy Flurry. Nikki is an artist and fashion blogger, Amy is a freelance writer, editor and stylist. In January, 2010 the two women founded the Paper-Cut-Project, a company that conceives art direction and highly crafted installations in paper for window installations, runway, catalog and advertising campaigns.



Flurry and Salk describe their custom made paper art installations as "fueled by a love of fashion and an appreciation of the grace and nuance of this humble material"

They have designed installations and window displays for chic stores like Jeffrey New York and Atlanta and an exclusive collection of animals for Hermes.


Owl (for Hermes):

Bear (for Hermes):

Horse 1 (for Hermes):

Horse 2 (for Hermes):

Horse 3 (for Hermes):

Lion (for Hermes):

Cockatiel (for Hermes):


The above masks were designed exclusively for French luxury boutique Hermes, while the masks below are part of their Animalia series.

Owl:

Cockatiel:

Lion:

Hare:


The Paper Cut Project
Nikki Salk's fashion blog
Amy Flurry's website

Star Wars Snowflakes & Templates To Make Your Own

It's beginning to look a lot like Star Wars...
I spotted these awesome Star Wars paper snowflakes over at Geekologie submitted to them by a reader of theirs named David (and subsequently featured on Gizmodo, Laughing Squid and Neatorama). However, if you haven't come across them yet, here they are, complete with template instructions, so you can try your hand at your own:








The text that accompanies the snowflakes reads:

My wife is a genius. She made these little beauties while making paper snowflakes with the kids. She saw our son Ethan making one that somewhat looked like a Storm Trooper. She then ran with the idea and made these masterpieces. The top one is Boba Fett and a Clone Trooper. The bottom is obviously Darth Vader. Notice the nice touch with the Galactic Empire logo in the middle.

David did not provide us with the name of his talented wife, but a big thanks to both of them! The link to the original post is below and rumor has it they will be adding more snowflake designs!

http://dancell.cwahi.net/star-wars-paper-snowflakes.html

Don't want to make your own? here's a bunch of Other Star Wars Christmas Decor you could consider.

Other Star Wars toys, Star Wars christmas ornaments and more

Shear Beauty. Cut Paper Art By Lorraine Nam.

above: detail from Rice Husband

Like Peter Callesen, Helen Musselwhite, Yuken Teruya, and Yulia Brodskaya, here's yet another artist who's very talented with a pair of sharp shears. An illustration graduate from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Lorraine Nam paints, illustrates and hand-cuts paper like no one's business. The results are Asian-influenced storytelling with highly detailed cut paper silhouettes.

These three stunning and intricate pieces are crafted from a single piece of mulberry paper that measures approximately 22" x 30".

Rice Husband:

Rice Husband, detail:

Rice Husband on black:

Asphyxiation:

Asphyxiation on black:

Asphyxiation, detail:

Asphyxiation as a cover for a RISD publication:

Gender Role, cut from one sheet of Mulberry paper:

Gender Role, detail:


Other examples of her hand-cut paper art:

Joy Luck:

Joy Luck, details:


Starling:

Starling, detail:


Self-portrait:


Be sure to see Lorraine's other work, such as her illustrations and paintings, like the bird and green eyed boy shown below.



Lorraine Nam

With Artist Yuken Teruya Trees Come From Paper, Not The Other Way Around.

An artist with a precise and delicate hand, Yuken Teruya's work includes several different series in which tiny and detailed trees are cut from books, toilet paper rolls and disposable bags.

In each bag and roll, the shape of a tree is created without adding or removing anything, just by cutting out and folding the paper from the bag itself. Teruya’s works explore issues such as the growing consumerism of contemporary society, depleting natural resources and other problems associated with globalism, including the threat it poses to localized cultural traditions and identities.

In his Notice – Forest Series, artist Yuken Teruya assembles small delicate trees from the cut out part of disposable bags. Then, he stands each tree in the same bag that it came from.



above: Notice-Forest (Murata & Friends shot), Paper Bag,
Glue 9.1/8” x 3.3/8” x 15.3/4”, 23 cm x 8cm x 40cm
2007, Photo Yuken Teruya


above: Notice- Forest (McDonald’s paper bag), Paper Bag, Glue
6”x 3.1/2” x11”, 18 cm x 8cm x 28cm
2005, Photo Yuken Teruya


above: Notice-Forest (Moma), Moma Paper Bag, Glue
8.1/4” x 4.1/3” x 13.3/8”, 21cm x 12cm x 34 cm
2006, Photo Yuken Teruya


above: Notice- Forest, Paper Bag, Glue
7.1/8” x 3.3/8” x 11”, 18 cm x 8cm x 28cm
2005, Photo Yuken Teruya


above: Notice – Forest exhibition shot, 7 paper bags from different business fields
Glue and bags, dimensions vary, 2005

For his Corner Forest and Rain Forest projects, he cut trees from toilet paper rolls creating both positive and negative images that are equally impressive.

above: Corner Forest, Toilet Paper Rolls, 2006


above: Rain Forest ( Murata & Friends Gallery shot ), Toilet Paper Rolls, 2007

For his Giving Tree Project, Yuken cut and created a tree from the pages of Shel Silverstein's wonderful children's book, The Giving Tree:



above: Giving Tree Project, The Giving Tree Book
7. 7/8” x 11.7/8” x 7. 7/8”, 20cm x 30 cm x 20 cm, 2007

About the artist:

Born in Okinawa, Japan in 1973, he received his MFA from the school of Visual Arts, New York in 2001. In 2007, he had a solo exhibition at The Asia Society in New York. His work was included in Greater New York 2005 at P.S.1 Contemporary art Center and was featured in the Yokohama International Triennial. Recent exhibitions include the Kunstwerein Wiesbaden in Germany; Free Fish at Asia Society in New York as well as various gallery exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Japan. In 2007, his work was featured in Shapes of Space, an exhibition at Guggenheim Museum New York. This fall, his work will be included in “Okinawa” at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.

See all of his work here.

If cut paper art interests you, be sure to see these three artists:


above: the amazing cut paper work of Peter Callesen


above: Helen Musselwhite's cut paper art and illustration


above: Yulia Brodskaya's Paper Graphics