Monthly Design Challenge October 2019
Posted: October 2nd, 2019, 3:56 am
Speak your heart out through your model! Did you watch the documentary Between the Folds? Well, do you remember a part in the film in which origami personalities were asked to decide between emotion and technique? Artists like Eric Joisel defended the importance of emotion over technique in the future generations of origamists.
That's what this challenge is about: "conceptual origami". Fold something that you feel very strongly about, but don't use something concrete as its subject. Instead of that, try to express the very idea through the model. And you can't explain what it is, not even through the model's name. Try to make people get what you feel strongly about just through the model.
Fernando Gilgado's Mortgaged and The Mass Production of Members of Society by me are great examples of what I'm talking about.
Please read carefully all the rules. Among other things, it's particularly important that you don't add any description along with the picture of your model. No "it's this or it represents that...". You know? You can add a title, but only if its cryptic (and poetic if you want as well). So no titles that say what you feel strongly about. Remember, the idea is that the very model says it for you. OK? It's also very important, that you follow these same rules (just during the challenge) in any other website where you post the model: Flickr, Facebook, Instagram, etc.
What’s allowed
-Any number of sheets.
-Squares, other rectangles, regular polygons, circles, and straight isosceles triangles.
-Very little cutting.
-Very little gluing.
-More than one model per origamist. Each model participates independently.
-A title for your model, but only if its cryptic (and poetic if you want as well).
-Writing on your fold, but the writing must be on your fold... nowhere else, and it must once again be cryptic. No digital addition of the words in the picture either.
What isn’t allowed
-Variations: Taking someone else’s model as base for yours
-Derivative works: Making an origami version of an existing work of art. It's still a derivative work if you change it a bit.
-Compositions: Folding more than one model and placing them like a scene
-Any type of description of what your model is or represents.
-Revealing what your model is anywhere on the Web: Flickr, Facebook, Instagram, anywhere. If you don't follow this rule, your model can be disqualified.
What’s mandatory
-Express the very idea you feel strongly about through the model, instead of using something concrete as the model's subject.
-State the details of the model along with the picture: Type of material? Number of sheets? Shape of each sheet? Size of each one and of the finished model? Cuts? Glue? This isn't the same as describing what it is or represents.
What you should know
-The judge can take into consideration the stated details in order to choose the winning model.
What’s recommended
-Assume the fold of your model as a work of art.
-Think carefully of the material used for folding (color, texture, type of material) in order to better express your idea.
-Take the best picture, or pictures, you’re able to of the fold.
I'll announce here who's the judge of the challenge as soon as one is chosen in the September challenge.
Sorry for the long message. Just have fun, express your sensibility, get out of your comfort zone, and make artist Joisel proud !
Edit: I added among the rules that, if you add words to your fold they must physically be on your fold. You can't add them by editing the picture you embed here.
That's what this challenge is about: "conceptual origami". Fold something that you feel very strongly about, but don't use something concrete as its subject. Instead of that, try to express the very idea through the model. And you can't explain what it is, not even through the model's name. Try to make people get what you feel strongly about just through the model.
Fernando Gilgado's Mortgaged and The Mass Production of Members of Society by me are great examples of what I'm talking about.
Please read carefully all the rules. Among other things, it's particularly important that you don't add any description along with the picture of your model. No "it's this or it represents that...". You know? You can add a title, but only if its cryptic (and poetic if you want as well). So no titles that say what you feel strongly about. Remember, the idea is that the very model says it for you. OK? It's also very important, that you follow these same rules (just during the challenge) in any other website where you post the model: Flickr, Facebook, Instagram, etc.
What’s allowed
-Any number of sheets.
-Squares, other rectangles, regular polygons, circles, and straight isosceles triangles.
-Very little cutting.
-Very little gluing.
-More than one model per origamist. Each model participates independently.
-A title for your model, but only if its cryptic (and poetic if you want as well).
-Writing on your fold, but the writing must be on your fold... nowhere else, and it must once again be cryptic. No digital addition of the words in the picture either.
What isn’t allowed
-Variations: Taking someone else’s model as base for yours
-Derivative works: Making an origami version of an existing work of art. It's still a derivative work if you change it a bit.
-Compositions: Folding more than one model and placing them like a scene
-Any type of description of what your model is or represents.
-Revealing what your model is anywhere on the Web: Flickr, Facebook, Instagram, anywhere. If you don't follow this rule, your model can be disqualified.
What’s mandatory
-Express the very idea you feel strongly about through the model, instead of using something concrete as the model's subject.
-State the details of the model along with the picture: Type of material? Number of sheets? Shape of each sheet? Size of each one and of the finished model? Cuts? Glue? This isn't the same as describing what it is or represents.
What you should know
-The judge can take into consideration the stated details in order to choose the winning model.
What’s recommended
-Assume the fold of your model as a work of art.
-Think carefully of the material used for folding (color, texture, type of material) in order to better express your idea.
-Take the best picture, or pictures, you’re able to of the fold.
I'll announce here who's the judge of the challenge as soon as one is chosen in the September challenge.
Sorry for the long message. Just have fun, express your sensibility, get out of your comfort zone, and make artist Joisel proud !
Edit: I added among the rules that, if you add words to your fold they must physically be on your fold. You can't add them by editing the picture you embed here.