Card Modeling FAQ

Appendix: Paper Modeling: Related Arts

This appendix to the Card Modeling FAQ is devoted to related arts. It is not intended to be an exhaustive reference, but if you stumbled across this FAQ while looking for information on, e.g., origami or decoupage, this section may have a couple of links to let you continue your search. Links in this section should be broad or general references on the subject, such as FAQ or link lists.

Origami
Pop-up books
- The Movable Book Society
- from Kell Black <blackk@apsu01.apsu.edu>: James Cameron and David Diaz have written a GREAT "how-to" book for aspiring pop-up artists: Elements of Pop-Up, Simon and Schuster. The book lists for US$35 but is currently available for US$25 at Hamilton Books in the USA. The authors offer b/w examples of more than 20 mechanisms, and each example is explained by its action and through the necessary math. (The actual patterns are available as Internet downloads here and here.) I wish that this had been published a year earlier: I would have used it as a text for my paper engineering course!
Origamic Architecture
- Origamic Architecture is actually a blend of pop-up, origami, and paper-cutting.
- Satoru Anjo has a number of buildings in Makuhari, Japan. Pattern sheets for several of the building can be downloaded.
- This site also has patterns to download.
Paper darts or airplanes (not scale models, but the traditional folded paper gliders.)
- Workman Publishing's World Record Paper Airplane Fliers' Club has a links page, and some samples to download.
- Vionapel has some impressively complex planes, bordering on origami.
Paper dolls
- American Girl magazine has a paper doll.
Paper vehicles
- Ken's Paper Boat Page--not models, but functional, full-size boats.
- The Great Cardboard Boat Regatta
- Intercollegiate Human Powered Paper Vehicle Engineering Competition
Papier mache
- Michael Schreiber has pictures of his own work and links to tutorials.
Decoupage
Collage
Paper making
Can modeling
- Can-Du Publications.
- See the Tin Can Man section at the Paper Airplane Museum.
Paper models in the fine arts (descriptions from Kell Black <blackk@apsu01.apsu.edu>)
- Thomas Demand: "Using his own paper models he recreates bland newspaper photographs, lights them in a sterile way, then photographs these tableau. He then exhibits the color photos as billboard sized Cibachromes."
  - http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/newphoto12/thomas.demand.html
  - http://www.ikm.his.se/ikm/~susanne/1997/Demand.html
- James Casebere: "Using paper, card and foamcore Casebere builds stark white table-top models of anonymous architectural spaces. He then illuminates and photographs the models, and exhibits the results as large black and white prints." http://photoarts.com/fop/case.html
- Pier Gustafson: "His life sized paper recreations are a wonder, rapidly built and masterfully painted in monochromatic."
  - http://www.gallerynaga.com/artists/gustafso.htm
  - http://www.nbm.org/Exhibits/Tool_As_Art_IV.html
Non models
- New City Editions produces furniture from cardboard and recycled materials.
- Stange Design selles cardboard furniture.

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