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Paper Olympics Athletes by Raya Sader Bujana

This is the time of the year, all the super athletes from around the world sprint to the mega world organization, the Olympics. An event that creates competition, teamwork, and years of testing their body to the max for that day. Now with the pandemic, the World is on standby and no one is exempt from it, even those athletes that bet everything they have for this day. 2020 push back Tokyo Olympics to summer 2021, and then again we weren't sure if it's still going to happen.

Paper crafting by Tommy Perez

Let me introduce you to Tommy Perez's paper crafting. His papercraft catches my eye where I had to stop to have a closer look at it, won't you? The OCD in me had me smirk to his work, clean, sharp paper cut, and even tho it's just a picture but you can feel the paper texture through it.

Experiments with 'Paper' by atelier MARTINI _

As the beginning of the year settling its sails, I think it's important to set off some goals and TRY your hardest to accomplish them. I think it's the hardest part! In my case, I always wanted to do more CGI/3D related works to be specific. I tried many times but it's not a 'demand' per se towards my daily work so it's hard to keep giving it more time. To push that 'inspiration' going to one day strive enough boost to learn. Let's take a look at the 'PAPERWORK' series by atelier MARTINI _. Let's be clear here, it's not real paper. Woah!

Linear Thinking Series: Colored Pencil Illustrations

Lui Ferreyra's art really caught my eye today, Lui is a freelance artist based in Denver, CO, USA. I am featuring the first series of colored pencil illustrations shared via Behance, the skills have greatly improved since. It's a unique style and the paper integrates into as a background that differs the result even more. These illustrations almost look-like real-life photos and that alone is pretty impressive. Looking forward to seeing more of Lui's future work.

Paper Project by Tom McCarten

Paper illustrations and animations in the stop motion style have become very popular in the past couple of years. It's great to see the amazing projects but also it's even more amazing to see the huge amount of work behind them. Tom McCarten shared some details about that on a really cool post titled Paper Project and we will share her with you today. An exploration of colour and tactile design.

Inspiring Ideas for a Crafty Christmas

If you're like us and have been a little tardy in getting those holiday decorations up find inspiration in this crafty post for simple ideas to bring the spirit of the season into your home. Whether you're short on time or on space or perhaps both, there's an idea in here for all of us. An added bonus, if you're empty handed heading to that holiday party, craft one of these up and you've got yourself a homemade gift that will surely delight any recipient.

Paper Folding Artworks

Last June Google introduced Material Design, their new design language which is pretty cool. The inspiration behind the project was developed by implementing the use of real materials, including paper, and how they interact with light. I love the approach, not skeumorphic, but based in some recognizable behaviors like the way shadows are cast. To give you some references I collected a few images with paper fold artworks.

Paper Illustrations by Eiko Ojala

Illustrations created with paper and collage has become really trendy and the reason is because it's really awesome. Playing with layers of paper and the depth created by the shadows make this artworks much more alive thank if it was just flat colors. Eiko Ojala has great examples in his portfolio that deserved to be featured here on Abduzeedo. Eiko Ojala is a illustrator and graphic designer. He lives in Tallinn, Estonia. He works mostly digitally and draws everything by hand.

Creative Paper Sculptures Works by Zim & Zou

Zim and Zou is a studio based in Nancy, France that primary works in paper sculptures installation, graphic design and illustration. Behind Zim and Zou, we have a team composed of Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann and together they provided a rich and yet very creative quality of works. We are pretty sure that you will recognize the choice of colours within their installations. All Rights to Zim and Zou

Atype - Craft Typography

Continuing our focus on featuring craft projects we bring to you "Atype" - a beautiful project that mixes typography and paper craft. The project was done by Lobulo Design, a designer with more than 10 years experience in working for various graphic design and marketing studios in Barcelona. “Whatever you want to do, it's possible in paper”. Atype project was born to show the different ways to transform a simple flat letter in a 3D tactile model. I will teach how to make these 3D models on my next workshop called “Make it Bigger”.

Paper Craft Animations by Cris Wiegandt

We have been posting about paper craft artworks quite ofter here on Abduzeedo. Perhaps, these kind of work might bring us back childhood memories, who never created paper objects? The work that Cris Wiegandt does goes beyond that. The animations, the details and the cuteness on some of her work is simply awesome.

Amazing Paper-Artwork by Karen Bit Vejles

Karen Bit Vejles form of expression, psaligraphy, literally means the art of drawing or painting with scissors. Her magical cuttings in the travelling exhibition Scissors for a Brush, are rooted in a tradition that has known a long journey through history. But she has created a personal style and technique that are entirely her own. For more than 35 years she has been absorbed, fascinated, and deeply committed to this art form that developed from small, simple snowflakes to unusually large and highly complex image cuttings.

Astonishing Paper Illustration by Yulia Brodskaya

Yulia Brodskaya is an artist and illustrator born in 1983 in Moscow - Russia. She is very recognized for her astonishing, elegant and detailed paper illustrations. Currently based in the UK, where she went to continue her education in art at the University of Hertfordshire with a Master of Art in Graphics Communication degree in 2006. After getting her degree, Yulia continued to experiment and explore ways of bringing together all the things she likes most: typography, paper, and highly detailed hand-made craft objects.

25+ Super Useful Paper Textures

After working a while on a project that I need some textures, I remembered how important it is to have good resourcers at hand. I went looking for some paper textures, and it took me some time, so I thought it would be a good idea to make a selection of the best I found. It's amazing, but some of the greatest textures sites I know don't have paper textures, so I ended up going to DeviantART as usual... and geez, I wonder if there's something I can't actually find there... what a great resource! So here are the texture I found, and I really hope you enjoy them.

40 Cool Paper Toys Samples

Some call it paper craft, others, paper toys, but the fact is that this kind of art demands a talented, creative, very patient and I even would say 'detail freak' artist to achieve good results. Usually this kind of work is funny, intelligent, beautiful and unique. So here we will show a selection of paper toys for you to enjoy! Putting together paper, illustration, good ideas, great skills and humor you can get some pretty cool samples of paper toys... Hope you like them! :) Don't forget to click at the images to visit the artist's page.

Inspiration: Peter Callesen

After i wrote the article about Mark Khaisman i surfed around the internet and found a similiar artists. Peter Callesen is a master at working with paper. At most of his work i had to look several times to understand how it was done. Peter Callesen . com