Street Art: Miniature Architecture

photo: EVOL

EVOL is a Berlin based street artist that transforms banal urban surfaces, into miniature architectural surfaces through pasting. Using pasted paper, EVOL transforms electric boxes, small planters and other geometric city forms, into miniature apartment buildings and other structures.


photo: EVOL


photo: EVOL

Each piece of paper is printed with a repetitive pattern of flat gray walls dotted with plain window frames. once applied to a surface, the paper transforms the form into small building that EVOL often adorns with small characters.


photo: EVOL


photo: EVOL

EVOL performs this process within different cities and has even been commissioned to do installations in galleries, where he was created entire blocks of miniature buildings.

Images: EVOL, article via WebDesign.com.

Street Art: Miniature Architecture

The Art of Quilling

Quilling has been around for hundreds of years, but it’s still as impressive and popular now as it was during the Renaissance.

The art of quilling first became popular during the Renaissance, when nuns and monks would use it to roll gold-gilded paper and decorate religious objects, as an alternative to the expensive gold filigree. Later, during the 18th and 19th centuries, it became a favorite pass-time of English ladies who created wonderful decorations for their furniture and candles, through quilling.

Basically, the quilling process consists of cutting strips of paper, and rolling them with a special tool. It sounds simple enough, but special skill is required to create more advanced shapes like marquises, arrowheads or holly leaves. All through the years, the art of quilling has remained almost unchanged, but new specialty supplies now allow quilling masters to create anything from detailed 3-D figures to wall-sized museum installations.

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The Art of Quilling

Paper Art

All images featured in this post are paper cutting art works by Peter Callesen. To view the gallery and for more information on his work visit his website.

Discovered this morning via Stumble Upon.

Paper Art

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Wonderful hats from the super-creative Etsy shop of madame alyn's bin. Alyn Carlson realizes ingenious thoughts in a range of media. She drinks Vo Vos, makes valentines from Marimekko scraps, herds chickens, and finds silver linings in places where most are too embarrassed to look. She is also an exquisite designer with a serious graphic design business and name cache up the yin yang.

Alyn's Favorite Art Materials

paper, air, moth dust, special magicalness, paint, pigments, figments and twine

Her graphic design and more fine art can be found at alyncarlson.com.

Happy New Year to all of you!!

party hats: happy new year