Paper Folding for Designers | Paper in Motion

The course sees the return to the Centro of Paul Jackson, a popular visitor in 2015 and 2016. Paul will take us through the basics of paper folding as a technique for designers, showing how a 2-D sheet can become a 3-D form or textured surface, by folding. He will cover many basic folding techniques, including pleats, cross-pleats, box making, simple tessellations, corrugations, crumpling and much more. He will also introduce ways in which a folded surface may be cut open. A special feature will be a section he calls 'Paper in Motion', which will show how small packets of folded paper can be dramatically opened to create a large 2-D surface or 3-D volume, with one simple pull. Paul will not teach 'origami'-type models of animals and flowers. Instead, he will teach open-ended techniques that can be applied creatively in paper and other sheet materials to many diverse design projects.