Sazeli Jalal - Styling

I want paper eyebrows.

'Paper Gangsta' by Sazeli Jalal.

The Craft Off - Event

I haven't updated for ages because I have been a bit busy moving house and ting, but now have the perfect excuse to start again:

This Sunday the gorgeous people at Spinsters Emporium and MerriMaking are joining forces to host a fabulously fun and seriously creative night of competitive crafting. The Craft Off takes place from 7pm at The Malt Cross, Nottingham.

Expect live music, drinking, dancing and general frolocking in a jungle of decorations. As for the crafting, they are keeping the competition brief secret until the night. But the Jungle theme suggests rain forests, giant snakes, birds of paradise, tigers, man eating flowers, sunshine Gods, totem poles, Tarzan, monkeys and more.

All craft materials are provided and there are prizes up for grabs including:
Merrimaking hoods
Spinsters Emporium goodies
Home-baked cakes
Twisted Hearts Club tickets
More T.B.C

If you don't live in the Nottingham area, don't be sad! Check out Spinsters Emporium and MerriMaking websites for lots of gorgeous creative goodies and wonderfully unique Christmas gift ideas.

The event is £5 to working folk, £4 with student card!

Buy tickets here and here.

Xavier Barrade for Dry the River

One of my favourite things about writing this blog is coming across things that I genuinely think are brilliantly creative and yet don't take a massive bank balance or a lot of resources to achieve -just some imagination and willingness to put in the hours.

So I loved discovering Xavier Barrade’s 3D posters for rock band Dry The River. Xavier spent over 35 hours creating each 3d poster, hand cutting all the pieces and gluing them together.

The finished result is an ad campaign that sticks out (ha!) from the rest. The video of people's reactions to the posters is great too.

Elizabeth Barrett, Luke Edge and Hattie Newman for Station Magazine

This spread is actually about a year old now, but I think the prop styling is still pretty forward thinking.

I found it when researching Hattie Newman's work, but it originally appeared in London based indie magazine 'Station'.

Hattie made the props and the shoot was styled Elizabeth Barrett with photography from Luke Edge.

Sipho Mabona - Artist

Sipho Mabona is based in Lucerne, Switzerland and made his first paper plane aged only five.

Since then he has created hundreds of his own original origami designs and gone on to participate in numerous contests -including the Red Bull Paper Wings World Finals in Salzburg 2006- and has exhibited his work in galleries from Tokyo to Vancouver.

It has been a while since I posted anything 'paper' related, so I thought I would come back with something big.

What appeals to me about Mabonas work is how simple it looks in passing, many of the same white birds strung up in formation; and this in itself has a striking visual appeal. But it is when you get closer that you see the complexity of the work that goes into each model and that is what really sets his work apart.

Yulia Brodskaya - Artist & Illustrator

Yulia Brodskaya was born in Moscow, Russia, but lives and works in the UK. I remember seeing her illustration work -made entirely out of hand cut paper- on the front cover of G2 suppliment some years ago and being amazed by her technical skill and creative imagination. I hope these pictures do it justice. Take a look at the video below for some more detail on her techniques.

For this project Yulia created 15 numbers which illustrated important financial dates in a person's life.

Money Origami By Hasegawa Yousuke

I just found this really cool and really simple money origami from Japanese artist Hasegawa Yousuke. I love that he has given Abraham Lincon a turban. Haha.