Nicholas Galanin Paper Sculptures Inspire Dutch Book Week Ad Campaign Posters.

Advertising and marketing agencies are often inspired by fine art. Such is the case with Etcetera's wonderful promotional posters for Dutch Book Week.


above: the computer generated image of Kader Abdollah used in the campaign

above: An actual 3D paper sculpture of Kader Abdollah by Nicholas Galanin was the inspiration for the computer generated campaign

A couple of blogs and design sites have featured the compelling ad campaign, but not all of them have entirely accurate information. The images were created entirely with CGI but were inspired by an artist who actually crafts similar three dimensional sculptures.


above: What Have We Become, a 3d paper sculpture by Nicholas Galanin

Each year, the Collective Promotion Dutch Literature (CPNB) organizes Dutch Book Week to promote Dutch literature and every year a specific genre is featured. This year the Book Week is featuring autobiographies, ‘GeschrevenPortretten’, which roughly translates into 'Written Portraits’.

Marketing agency, Etcetera, created the campaign which features CGI created posters of faces crafted from book pages representing the autobiographies of Anne Frank, Vincent van Gogh, Louis van Gaal and Kader Abdollah (writer of the biographic Book Week give away).

Souverein created the CGI artwork, because of time constraints, which was based on the work by artist Nicholas Galanin.

Kader Abdollah and Anne Frank:

Louis van Gaal and Vincent van Gogh:



Concept for the campaign by: Markus Ravenhorst, Maarten Reynen

Here's some more of Nicholis Galanin's three dimensional paper sculptures:





images courtesy of Behance.net and Nicholas Galanin

Nicholas Galanin

A Paper Theater Brought to Life With Light Projection. The Ice Book By Davy McGuire.

Davy McGuire is a director of film, theater and video art. He creates productions for stage, screen and exhibition spaces that blend elements of film, animation, theatre, puppetry, installation art and good old-fashioned illusions.



His latest piece, created with choreographer and dancer wife Kristin, uses light projection on a series of small paper cut out pop-ups combined with film projection and animation for a hauntingly beautiful effect.






The Ice Book is the story of a princess who lures a boy into the forest in order to warm her heart of ice.



His showreel:

Davy McGuire

via W&LeCie via NOTCOT

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

3D Sculpted Paper Heads By Bert Simons

I spotted these 3 dimensional photographic paper portrait heads and sculptures by artist Bert Simons over at Bored Panda, so I dove a little deeper and found some more on the artist's web site.

Using multiple points on a model's face and head, Bert inputs the data into the computer and uses Blender, an open source 3D program to construct a three dimensional model of the head. He then flattens the image to 2D pieces and prints them out on paper stock, only to rebuild them as a purposely piecemeal modeled head.


The making of Harry Hamelink (2007):





In addition to some self-portraits, he has created versions of other men and women, an anatomical head and a three step head which represents vegetative growth.

Self-portraits, 2006:



Rozemarijn Lucassen, 2007:



Mr. Ivo Opstelten, 2008:



the mask as seen on a human:


Cardboard Cutie, 2006:

the making of Cardboard Cutie:




Anatomical head, 2005:



Vegetarius (just add water), 2003:



all images courtesy of the artist.