Eye on Design

Touch—it’s one of the five senses that dictates how we perceive the world around us. It’s also one of the most important. Sappi’s groundbreaking book, written in collaboration with renowned neuroscientist Dr. David Eagleman, dives deeper into haptics, the science of touch. It explores why touch is such a crucial part of the sensory experience and how it influences emotion and decision making, establishing this sense as critical to any brand experience.

Brands that really know how to engage their customers are brands that have mastered the science of touch. They understand how to leverage haptics to create impactful marketing pieces that forge memorable and meaningful connections between brand and customer. This episode looks at why high-quality paper is the best medium to deliver memorable messaging.

Watch the video: https://www.sappi.com/neuroscience-video-6

Presented for the exhibition ‘Space in Ginza’ at METoA METoA in Tokyu Plaza Ginza, Moureaux's ‘I am here’ comprises the silhouettes of 18,000 women in 100 different colors. these paper pieces express the non-stop flow of pedestrians that occupy the bustling district of japan. seemingly lost within the vibrant mass of paper people are three silhouettes — two girls and one cat — encouraging visitors to seek them out within the many layers of the installation. Just like looking for the ‘lost’ silhouettes in the crowd, the installation serves a reminder for visitors to rethink where they belong.

https://www.designboom.com/art/emmanuelle-moureaux-18000-paper-silhouettes-100-colors-i-am-here-ginza-japan-09-07-2016/

Following a similar aesthetic style to the ornamental wigs of the baroque and rococo periods, paper artist Asya Kozina creates ornate headdresses that pay homage to one of the most outrageous luxuries and stylized trends in history. The artist began experimenting with these paper creations in her initial paper, costume series published in 2015. With this second edition, the artist adds an additional artistic flare by integrating symbols of modern industrialization and advancement into the towering paper compositions.

https://www.designboom.com/art/asya-kozina-baroque-wigs-paper-10-15-2017/

Never coming up flat is the work of Bea Szenfeld, a Polish-born, Stockholm-based artist whose medium is paper. Szenfeld worked as a ceramicist and sculptor before pursuing a fashion degree at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm. After graduating, she landed a job in the industry. Quickly realizing that working with commercial clothes was not her thing, she “jumped back to work with clothes in art.” Inspired by the experimental garments she made at school, Szenfeld chose to work again with paper.

Each garment is handmade in a process that might be described as analog, and is constructed using materials that can be found in any corner stationary or hardware store: scissors, tape, staples, bone folder, needle and thread, paper, sometimes a glue gun or drill. Some of Szenfeld’s pieces feature origami folds, others are accumulations of thousands of individual pieces, some separated by a small pearl.

Explore the collection here > https://www.vogue.com/article/swedish-artist-bea-szenfeld-paper-clothing

Since 2012, Wanda Barcelona has been the creative group behind the hyperreal paper flowers and plants at Dior exhibitions and events around the world. To boot, the trio (made up of Botero, Daniel Mancini, and Iris Joval) has also created installations for Hermès, Karl Lagerfeld, Comme des Garçons, Colette, Zara, and events at Cannes since they founded their company in 2007. But the latest project from the Barcelona-based group might just be the most stunning yet: gorgeous paper blooms that resemble wisteria and lily of the valley hanging over some of Dior’s most beautiful gowns of all time at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. The exhibition opened earlier this month, and to say Wanda Barcelona’s blooms are a main fixture of the exhibition would be an understatement. 

Visit the exhibition here > https://www.vogue.com/article/dior-les-arts-decoratifs-paper-flowers-artist

Inspired by the permanence of nature and by the “green” trend, the paper experts from Gmund have created a new landmark: the “Gmund Wood” collection. Color, sheen, texture and real wood grain are its incomparable characteristics.Wood is the epitome of naturalness and ecology. This authentic natural material served as the model for the new collection’s surface textures and patterns. This paper is unmistakable, as are its color variants. From Abura, through Limba to Tindalo, nine different colors are available. Each of the nine is named after a genuine wood variety from around the globe and each color closely resembles the natural hue of its namesake. 

Take a look here >  https://us.gmund.com/content/en/new-paper-collection-gmund-wood

Each season the team at the Pantone Color Institute creates the PANTONE Fashion Color Trend Report; a color overview highlighting the top colors fashion designers showing at NY Fashion Week will be featuring in their collections for the upcoming season. With color on the catwalk a key indicator of the color stories we can expect to see showing up across all areas of design, the PANTONE Fashion Color Trend Report is your easily accessible guide to the season’s most important color trends

See the color story for Spring 2018 here: http://www.pantone.com/fashion-color-trend-report-new-york-spring-2018

Japanese artist Ayumi Shibata uses traditional methods of Japanese paper cutting to create miniature cities inside of glass vessels. Her chosen materials reference the delicate relationship humans have with our environment and natural forces of our world, while also relating to the Japanese translation of “paper.” In Japanese, the word for “paper” is “Kami,” which can also mean “god,” “divinity,” or “spirit.” Kami are omnipresent in the Shinto religio, and reside in the sky, ground, trees, and rocks.

Explore more here: http://strictlypaper.com/blog/2017/03/paper-cities-enclosed-in-glass-by-ayumi-shibata/

These two paper craft window displays are for the opening of a new Hermès store in Dubai (Mall of the Emirates). Through this project, spectators have a sneak peek at the curious characters living inside this nature filled environment. One window has a motif of a mushroom village, while the other shows blooming flower huts. This microscopic point of view shows plants and other vegetal life reigning as masters, like a kind of picture, a flash, a precise instant in nature’s unrestrained run.

See more here: http://strictlypaper.com/blog/2017/01/zim-and-zou-dubai-window-display-for-hermes/

Designed by boutique perfumer Geza Schoen in close consultation with Gerhard Steidl and in collaboration with Wallpaper* magazine, the perfume expresses that peculiar mix of paper and ink which gives a book its unmistakable aroma, along with the fresh scent which a book opened for the first time releases.

Behold the smell of a freshly printed book: https://www.wallpaper.com/lifestyle/paper-passion-by-geza-schoen-steidl-wallpaper-and-karl-lagerfeld