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theknow-how:

These are three origami maple leaves that I made while exploring the use of collaging and found type and how it can be used to create interest and multiple planes. This was also the final project for one of my graphic design classes.

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clagil:

Simply incredible! Golden cape made out of gossamer.  

A handmade scarf – 4 metres long – is the costliest and best of its kind worldwide, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London explains. It will be shown in London end of January 2012. 

Over 5 years about 80 workers collected the gossamer of about more than one Million spiders, named “Golden Orb”, in Madagaskar. The female spiders were collected in the morning and brung back outdoors in the evening. 

Inspired by drawings (illustrations of the art of weaving of long forgotten times from the 19th century) the Englishman Simon Peers and American Nicholas Godley created this awesome pieces.

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one of the many astounding collages by Meg Hitchock made by cutting letters from various books, including the Koran and Rushdie’s “Satanic Verses”. Highly recommend checking the rest of the collection on her site, where you can also see the detailed versions of each piece.

In my text drawings I deconstruct the word of God by cutting letters from sacred writings and rearranging them to form a passage from another holy book. I may cut letters from the Bible and reassemble them as a passage from the Koran, or use letters cut from the Torah to recreate an ancient Tantric text. The individual letters are glued to the paper in a continuous line of type, without spaces or punctuation, in order to discourage a literal reading of the text. 

(Source: svdp)

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