While perusing Design*Sponge the other day, I was introduced to the work of Maria Berrio. Immediately, I was struck by her collage style—the intoxicating collision of color and texture paired with alluring figures in curious environments. Driven by her “native South…
If you’re still feeling down about recent events (I know I am), Grace Chin offers a beautiful pick-me-up with her empowering floral wreaths. Combining paper craft with text, she creates delicate faux flowers and arranges them onto a circular form.…
Creating typography, in general, is challenging, but it’s even more so when done by hand. Lavanya Naidoo has excelled at producing clean, bold text, and she did it entirely out of paper. Her beautiful piece A Thorn in My Side…
Plants! Shrimp! Kabobs! Everything is made better with paper, don’t you think? Los Mercados de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria or translated, Markets Las Palmas features a bevy of delicious foods and beautiful blooms. They have a exquisite sense of craftsmanship and color, made even…
Illustrator Malin Koort creates charming characters out of cut paper. Her work features elements of 2D and 3D design—most notably, she’ll fold paper and casts its shadows onto the composition. This produces the illusion that they’re really sitting. Surface patterns—on clothing, in hair, etc—are otherwise drawn onto…
If you follow me on Pinterest, you’ve probably noticed that I pin a lot of paper flower DIYs. I’m attracted to their bright colors and the sheer novelty of recreating living things out of inanimate objects. Illustrator Kim Sielbeck does just…
Historical wigs—especially those from the Baroque era—have always fascinated paper artist Asya Kozina. “This is art for art’s sake aesthetics for aesthetics,” she writes, “no practical sense. But they are beautiful.” To celebrate this, she constructed a series of wigs…
Morgana Wallace crafts fantastical female heroines with cut-paper collage. Her colorful creations feature capes, crowns, crows, and more, exciting the imagination with intricate details—each piece has multiple layers and textures that produce a three-dimensional effect. To create these gorgeous illustrations, Morgana works with…
Mlle Hipolyte is one of my favorite cut-paper artists working today. I love the meticulousness of her sculptures and the mask-like appearance that they all have. Their exaggerated colors and features give Mlle’s pieces a cartoonish quality, injecting some whimsy into her…
“I have always loved flowers,” Hanna Nyman said on Instagram. “My grandmother was a florist and I remember visiting her in the flower shop as a child sitting on the counter just taking all the beauty and scent in!” This long-held adoration…