The Sunday Paper #500
March 17, 2024
As we speak’s weblog submit is a bit totally different, as a result of we’re celebrating the five hundredth version of The Sunday Paper! Hold studying to seek out out a few giveaway and a few enjoyable info about this weblog.
However first, an invite:
I’m excited to be internet hosting a one-hour FREE Zoom workshop on Friday, March twenty ninth at midday MST (Denver). In honor of the photo voltaic eclipse (which can happen on April eighth) we’ll be creating this Interactive Eclipse Card. Be part of me and make your personal card, after which spin the wheel of the volvelle (one of many oldest types of moveables) and illuminate the moon phases (and the eclipse) together with your telephone or flashlight!
This workshop may also embody a short presentation about my Paper 12 months membership program, which will likely be open for registration March twenty ninth – April tenth.
Join this one-hour workshop and invite your folks.
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I wrote the primary version of The Sunday Paper on Might 3, 2014 and have been running a blog (virtually) weekly ever since.
An enormous THANK YOU to you, pricey readers – whether or not you’ve been studying since day one or that is your first subject – your shared enthusiasm for paper conjures up me.
In celebration of 500 posts, I’m doing a GIVEAWAY
If you realize me, you realize that I’ve spent my profession creating and discovering new papers, exploring methods for working with paper, and determining which paper is finest for a specific venture. All of these items come collectively in my newest guide, The Artwork of Papercraft, and I’m raffling off 5 free copies. In case you already personal a replica (and also you win), you’ll be able to pay it ahead by sending it to a buddy or donating it to your library.
Enter to win by telling me one factor you want most about The Sunday Paper.
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A little bit of Sunday Paper historical past:
Right here’s what I wrote within the first subject of The Sunday Paper, and it nonetheless rings true, 10 years later:
They hold saying that paper will turn into out of date, but artists, craftspeople, designers and creatives are retaining it alive and nicely. A wholesome variety of persons are even making paper by hand (in some cultures they’re nonetheless utilizing age-old traditions). How cool is that? The Sunday PAPER is a useful resource for concepts and inspiration, all having to do with this superb materials. Every Sunday, I’ll deliver you tales and examples of individuals doing thrilling, revolutionary, and exquisite issues with paper, in addition to hyperlinks to attention-grabbing paperfacts I’ve unearthed from across the globe. I hope you’ll take pleasure in studying this paper, Papier, papel, хартия, Papir,紙, Papper, פּאַפּיר… and don’t hesitate to go away your feedback and options beneath.
Listed here are some highlights from each one hundredth subject of The Sunday Paper.
Subject #100 featured a giveaway; a Paper of the Week (I’ve examined out numerous columns over time, and this was certainly one of them); the work of Paul Johnson; Paperhouse Studio in Toronto; some superb origami vessels that had been featured on Eric Gjerde’s web site; and an set up made up of 35,000 paper cubes. Learn Subject #100.
Subject #200 featured an early episode of my podcast, Paper Discuss (which remains to be going robust – I simply launched Episode #121); an armada of 180 boats created by Steve Messum; Paper/Print: American Hand Papermaking, an exhibition on the Worldwide Print Heart New York; a 3D paper set up of a Lexus; and a flexagon within the opening scene of the film A Wrinkle in Time. Learn Subject #200.
Subject #300 featured my Twelve Months of Paper Calendar (bear in mind these?); Ayumi Shibata’s paper reduce three-dimensional shapes through which paper expresses the yang, gentle, and the method to chop expresses the yin, shadow; a characteristic from my free Fb group, The Paper Studio; and a video about John Collins, who flies world document paper airplanes. Learn Subject #300.
Subject #400 featured the guide launch for The Artwork of Papercraft, the Kalamazoo E-book Arts Heart (KBAC)’s non-juried exhibition The Illustrated Accordion; Mahatma Gandhi’s swadeshi dream – the motion for nationwide independence in India boycotting overseas items and inspiring using home merchandise; and UCLA’s Hammer Museum and its affiliated Grunwald Heart for the Graphic Arts, which each gather works on paper. Learn Subject #400.
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The Sunday Paper is FREE, and I wish to just remember to know concerning the different free paper sources I supply:
- The Paper Advisor is a spot to seek out sources about paper, together with details about instruments and provides, how-to movies, and paper ideas – multi functional place!
- My Podcast, Paper Discuss is an ongoing collection of interviews (with me) that includes artists and professionals who’re working within the subject of hand papermaking and paper artwork.
- Youtube movies, that includes papermaking and papercraft tutorials.
- The Paper Studio is a Fb group, the place we share what we’re creating with paper each Friday.
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That’s all for immediately. Thanks a lot for following this weblog; hold sending options; and I’ll see you once more subsequent Sunday!
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