Shear Beauty. Cut Paper Art By Lorraine Nam.

above: Rice Husband

Like Peter Callesen, Helen Musselwhite, Yuken Teruya, and Yulia Brodskaya, here's yet another artist who's very talented with a pair of sharp shears. An illustration graduate from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Lorraine Nam paints, illustrates and hand-cuts paper like no one's business. The results are Asian-influenced storytelling with highly detailed cut paper silhouettes.

These three stunning and intricate pieces are crafted from a single piece of mulberry paper that measures approximately 22" x 30".

Rice Husband, detail:


Rice Husband, detail:


Rice Husband on black:


Asphyxiation:


Asphyxiation on black:


Asphyxiation, detail:


Asphyxiation as a cover for a RISD publication:


Gender Role, cut from one sheet of Mulberry paper:


Gender Role, detail:


Other examples of her hand-cut paper art:

Joy Luck:


Joy Luck, details:



Starling:


Starling, detail:


Self-portrait:



Be sure to see Lorraine's other work, such as her illustrations and paintings, like the bird and green eyed boy shown below.



Lorraine Nam

The Santa Elena House by Antonio Sofan

Located in Santa Elena of Antioquia, Colombia, this single family residence by architect Antonio Sofan is a 1000 sf vacation home built with green and local materials.



The unusual home is accessed through the wood deck that is open to the landscape:





The facade follows a rhythm dictated by the different functions inside, providing different variations of the landscape. Two bedrooms, one on each end, each with its own bathroom, the meditation room and the kitchen all face the wonderful scenery.







The Santa Elana home was completed in 2009, sits on a 5,000 square meter lot and cost approximately $200k USD.

about the architect:

Antonio Sofán got his architectural degree from Javeriana University in Bogota Colombia in 1989. A year later he moved to New York where he completed his graduate studies at Pratt Institute. In 1993 he returned to Colombia to design his first important commission, the headquarters for a local newspaper “el Meridiano” located in the city of Monteria. At his own practice studio in Bogota he designed Colegiatura Colombiana, a university campus located in the city of Medellin, and several other important residential projects including some single family homes and the interiors of high end apartments. His determination to understand architectural context and its relation to the end user has brought him to explore new aesthetic options much more engaged to sustainability and the environment.

In 2001 he designed Clinica Monteria which up until now has been his most important project. Through the design of this clinic he experimented with color and human anatomy. So the relationship between interior and exterior are analogous to the one between the body and soul. In 2001 he is back in the United States to join several firms like Kling, Peter Marino, Daroff Design and WRT Design in Philadelphia. Today, he is a Registered Architect in the States of New York and Pennsylvania and LEED accredited Professional

photos by carlos tobon
special thanks to Muuuz and Architizer for info and photos.

X-Ray Pin-Up Calendar Sells Medical Monitors to Physicians.

This one's for my Dad, Larry, and his brother, my Uncle Bob.

This imaginative calendar for high resolution medical imaging monitors has been making the rounds on design and marketing blogs. Given that I am the daughter and niece of retired Radiologists, there was no way I was not going to blog about this.

Released just this month, the hilarious yet ingeniously appropriate promotional calendar targeting physicians was created by Berlin-based ad agency Butter for Eizo of Germany, a company that supplies high-end monitors for the observation and subsequent diagnosis, of radiographs (x-rays).


above: Radiforce monitors by Eizo.

X-rays of women posed seductively are featured for each month of the calendar year, playing off the tradition of Pin-up calendars.


January:

February:

March:

April:

May:

June:

July:

August:

September:

October:

November:

December:

Back Cover:




Credits:
Advertising Agency: Butter, Berlin/Duesseldorf, Germany

Creative Director: Matthias Eickmeyer

Art Director: Nadine Schlichte

Illustrator/CGI: Carsten Mainz

Copywriter: Reinhard Henke

The promotional piece has already earned awards, amongst them a Gold at the ADC in Frankfurt, a Gold at the New York One Show and a Silver from the New York Festival.

Now, how do I get one for my father and uncle?