Irving Harper: Works in Paper

Irving Harper: Works In Paper is a new book from Skira Rizzoli that collects the paper works of industrial designer Irving Harper. Harper worked as the director of design at George Nelson Associates during the 1960s and is known for designing the Marshmallow Sofa for Herman Miller (as well as the firms’ iconic logo) and the ball and sunburst clocks for Howard Miller. Privately the designer was also an artist and created numerous paper sculptures depicting animals, masks, and other figures.

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Anime Paper Child Art

Lowra creates light-hearted cut-out characters and then places them in the real world. The result is a pretty impressive collection of “paper children.”

Anatomical Cross-Sections in Paper by Lisa Nilsson

Artist Lisa Nilsson creates beautiful anatomical cross sections of the human body by rolling and shaping narrow strips of Japanese mulberry paper in a technique called paper filigree or quilling. Nilsson talks about her “Tissue Series” in an interview with All Things Paper.


















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