Kirigami: the art of folding and cutting paper

Matt Linderman wrote this on Feb 20 2008 3 comments

Virtual Gallery of Origamic Architecture features 3-D pop-ups and paper sculptures hand-cut using an X-acto knife and a ruler.

MOO.com takes a look at Kirigami, the art of folding and cutting paper.

And here’s a photoset on Flickr of snowflake-like Kirigami.

Matt Linderman wrote this on Feb 20 2008 There are 3 comments.

Alejandro Moreno

on 20 Feb 08

Like most art, if you have a chance to see this kind of thing in person, go for it. It’s amazing.

/gradster(1)/

on 21 Feb 08

This is fine for those who find origami too hard but I would encourage anybody to delve more into origami rather than kirigami – being a purist (starting from a square and using only folding to create pieces) is much more satisfying and is also much more amazing when you display it.

/gradster(1)/ – origami purist (Jeremy Shafer is my god)

Colin

on 23 Feb 08

Beautiful art, like :

http://www.fubiz.net/blog/index.php?2007/08/08/1231-magazine-illusions

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