Violet Box

Violet Box

New packaging/gift box design! This violet card stock has a wonderful velvety feel and, engraves to a beautiful contrast.

Violet Box
Violet Box
Violet Box (bottom)
Violet Box (bottom)

Making of the Garden Lantern Electronic Pop Up Card

Garden Lantern Origamic Architecture / Kirigami with integrated electronics

The Garden Lantern Electronic Pop Up Card I made in 2017 was one of the first big projects where I shot video documenting the build. There was a lot of footage and, I wasn’t very comfortable with editing videos at that point. The raw video just sat in a folder for a few years. I have done a bunch of build videos since then and, it occurred to me that I could probably manage to pull the old video clips together into a build narrative. I have been slowly putting that together in the last few weeks and, it is finally done!

As I noted in my original post about this project, this was inspired by and based on work done by Jie Qi and Natalie Freed. The Chibitronics Circuit Stickers project made everything a lot easier.

Spirals Bookmark Redesign

Kirigrami bookmark with an interlocking pattern of organic Celtic spirals cut from a white pearlescent stock with a gold gauze ribbon tied to one end.

I designed a kirigami Spirals Bookmark last summer, mostly just taking what I did for one of my velvet embossing plates and, using that with minor changes. It was good but, there were a few spots where it was a little fragile – bits of connecting paper less than a millimeter wide.

More recently, I was inspired to redesign the spirals bookmark to make it a bit more robust. While I was at it, I made a few and, made a few of my Celtic key pattern design bookmarks and, put them all up in the new shop section. The designs are available individually, in three-packs and, in a variety pack with all three designs.

Kirigrami bookmark with an interlocking pattern of organic Celtic spirals cut from a white pearlescent stock with a gold gauze ribbon tied to one end.
Kirigami bookmark with a Celtic key pattern cut from cobalt blue stock with a yellow ribbon tied to one end.
Original Celtic key pattern kirigami bookmark.
Kirigami bookmark with a Celtic key pattern cut from copper-brown stock with a green ribbon tied to one end.
Original Celtic key pattern kirigami bookmark.
Kirigrami bookmark with an interlocking pattern of organic Celtic spirals cut from a white pearlescent stock with a gold gauze ribbon tied to one end.
Original Celtic spirals bookmark design.
Collection of three Celtic kirigami bookmarks: two different key pattern designs in cobalt blue and copper brown and a pattern of spirals in a white pearlescent stock.
Collection of three original Celtic kirigami bookmarks.

Hexagonal Box

Hexagonal Box (Top)
Hexagonal Box (Side)
Hexagonal Box (Side)
Hexagonal Box (Bottom)
Hexagonal Box (Bottom)
Hexagonal Box (Top)
Hexagonal Box (Top)

This is a quick box I designed to package one of my little drawstring bags.

You can download the plain version below to make your own hexagonal box.

Hexagonal Box Pattern

This file is for personal, non-commercial use only.  Note that, by referencing these, you are agreeing to release any variations you create under identical terms.

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Hexagonal Box Pattern (SVG)

180-Degree-Open Pop Up Snowflakes

180-Degree Snowflakes Pop Up Card (2020)

I played with several variations of this snowflake design back around 2002. There were a couple 180-degree-open card variants that I liked. They were both designed to be cut as four panels that folded together to produce a card with an integrated backing. I had some limited access to a laser cutter for a couple hours to produce the cards. I ended up going with the simpler of the two designs for the production run. That one was less sensitive to smoke deposition and, less fragile.

I always wanted to play with the other design a little more and, in 2020, I finally did a run of those on my own laser.

Smoke deposition was still a challenge, especially on a stock with a pearlescent finish and a little tooth. There is almost always some trade-off with that sort of thing and expedient production. I chose not to apply all of the full repertoire of techniques for these, opting to reduce wear and tear on expensive work-holding mats and, to make production faster.

180-Degree Snowflakes Pop Up Card (2020)
180-Degree Snowflakes Pop Up Card (2020)
180-Degree Snowflakes Pop Up Card (2020)
180-Degree Snowflakes Pop Up Card (2020)
180-Degree Snowflakes Pop Up Card (2020)
180-Degree Snowflakes Pop Up Card (2020)
180-Degree Snowflakes Pop Up Card (2020)
180-Degree Snowflakes Pop Up Card (2020)
180-Degree Snowflakes Pop Up Card (2020) (back)
180-Degree Snowflakes Pop Up Card (2020) (back)
180-Degree Snowflakes Pop Up Card (original prototype from 2002)
180-Degree Snowflakes Pop Up Card (original prototype from 2002)
Snowflake Pop Up Card (2002)
180-degree-open origamic architecture/kirigami Snowflake Pop Up Card from 2002
Snowflake Pop Up Card (2002)
180-degree-open origamic architecture/kirigami Snowflake Pop Up Card from 2002
 

I made a short production video featuring the jig-in-place technique, dry transfer adhesive and removing stray glue.