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Masters of Paper Art and Paper Sculptures - Jeff Nishinaka
Los Angeles native Jeff Nishinaka is the world’s premier paper sculptor with a prolific career. He attended UCLA and graduated from prestigious Art Center College of Design, where he first experimented with paper and sculpture.
I began making paper sculptures more than 34 years ago. Since then, I’ve been endlessly experimenting and refining my drawing and technical skills, but everything I do to make a paper sculpture come to life, is still and always will be done completely by hand. My tools are very basic: a pencil, an X-Acto knife, Elmer’s Glue-All, triangles, an eraser, French curves, wood dowel and paper. Of course it is very labor intensive and time consuming, but with my hands, is the only way I think it could and should be done.
I try not to overwork or force paper into submission. I let paper do what it does naturally without forcing my will upon it. I feel that paper has energy and a life of its own and that I am only releasing or revealing what is already there. The beauty in paper is only seen when I let it speak for itself.
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Wands, wizards and Watson.
Ryan Anderson, dad and IBMer, has created a real-life Sorting Hat with his two daughters, Lucy and Julia. By telling it a little bit about yourself, the hat quickly determines how brave, loyal, creative or ambitious a wizard you are - and will sort you into the right Hogwarts’ house. The magical hat is connected to two Watson Developer Cloud APIs, one that understands muggle-speak to transform speech into text, and the other is a natural language classifier trained in wizard history, to make the hard decision. What Hogwarts House do you think Watson would sort you into?
Featured Packaging: Fort Point Beer Company
As San Francisco’s fastest growing craft brewery, Fort Point creates balanced, thoughtful beers that reference traditional styles, but are by no means bound to them.
The brewery resides in a historic Presidio building that was formerly used as an Army motor pool. Their iconic location—close to both the Golden Gate Bridge and the Fort Point National Historic Site—provided inspiration for a modular, illustrative brand identity. In packaging, the illustration incorporates elements of city landmarks and Bay Area culture to create a unique and authentic sense of place.
The result is a brand that locals can identify with and, as Fort Point grows and becomes available throughout the nation, can be regarded as the new San Francisco craft beer.
Love the infusion of 2D architecture into 3D packaging.
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