Origami Sphere part 2

The transition into colour is complete! Check out the photos below.

I intend to expand on this idea by using accetate or tracing paper and filling the centre with sweet smelling items such as petals or possibly even fairy lights.

Thanks for looking!

The possibilities of paper

Hidden away in my library of photos I found the image below. This is from another college project where the brief was focused around body adornment. For this project we were each given a word which we were asked to convey through paper. I was given the word "crease". I felt that this was a very broad theme and I tried to think of as many different ways of creasing a piece of paper as possible. This ranged from crumpling the paper into a tight ball, to folding and scoring very straight edges. I tried to use different thicknesses and sizes of paper too such as cartridge paper all the way through to very thin news print. I apologise for the lopsided angle as I think it was taken from my final board! Thanks for looking!

What do you wear to an australian party?

A couple of weeks ago I was invited to a house warming, however the theme of the party was Australian. As far as I was aware Australians wore cork hats and wandered around saying "G'day mate!" like on Home and Away, which didn't inspire me greatly. I decided to be a little bit more inventive with my outfit and bought myself a large Australia flag from a fancy dress shop and decided to see if I could design something wearable from it. I used my tailors dummy to fashion the following designs (please excuse the pink!) before I decided on a final one. Hope you like them!

 

Origami sphere

This design is the result of an origami workshop with Peggy Fearne and has been created by tesselating origami shapes together. The shape I chose to use here was a pyramid. The pyramids are created using a circle piece of paper as a base shape and structured by folding into halves and thirds. Instead of joining all the pyramid sides at a point, I decided to sew them into the centre of the base which created a curved floral shape. I then sewed each base together at the corners which created the spherical shape and achieved a hollow centre.

I am currently working on this design in different colours and sizes so please check back soon! I think it would look fantastic hung up in a window.

Past Projects

Hello everyone! Here are a few photos from my past projects. I thought I'd start with my final college project which was titled "Floral". I designed a collection of shoes to reflect each of the seasons and a "puppet" shoe as a centre piece.

The exhibition space

Puppet shoe top view

Puppet shoe front view
Created using soaked and structured wood, felt, printed floral fabric, stuffing, dried twigs and clear thread
This design was created with function. Under the heel I hand sewed a flower where each petal had a hinge. Attached to the end of each petal was a length of clear thread which all joined at a point. When the threads are pulled the flower beneath the heel closes up and becomes tight. When the threads are let loose, the flower opens again.

Autumn side view
Created using cardboard, leather and dried twigs, flowers and leaves

Autumn top view
Created using cardboard, leather and dried twigs, flowers and leaves 

Spring side view
Created using cardboard, felt and dried flower petals, buds and twigs

Spring top view
Created using cardboard, felt and dried flower petals, buds and twigs

Summer side view
Created using cardboard, leather and dried twigs, flowers and leaves painted with gouache

Summer top view
Created using cardboard, leather and dried twigs, flowers and leaves painted with gouache

Winter top view
Created using cardboard, felt and dried twigs, flowers and leaves

Winter side view
Created using cardboard, felt and dried twigs, flowers and leaves