Beautiful Cut Paper Animal Masks by Flurry & Salk.

above: cut paper Ram mask designed for Hermes.

Meet Nikki Salk and Amy Flurry. Nikki is an artist and fashion blogger, Amy is a freelance writer, editor and stylist. In January, 2010 the two women founded the Paper-Cut-Project, a company that conceives art direction and highly crafted installations in paper for window installations, runway, catalog and advertising campaigns.



Flurry and Salk describe their custom made paper art installations as "fueled by a love of fashion and an appreciation of the grace and nuance of this humble material"

They have designed installations and window displays for chic stores like Jeffrey New York and Atlanta and an exclusive collection of animals for Hermes.


Owl (for Hermes):

Bear (for Hermes):

Horse 1 (for Hermes):

Horse 2 (for Hermes):

Horse 3 (for Hermes):

Lion (for Hermes):

Cockatiel (for Hermes):


The above masks were designed exclusively for French luxury boutique Hermes, while the masks below are part of their Animalia series.

Owl:

Cockatiel:

Lion:

Hare:


The Paper Cut Project
Nikki Salk's fashion blog
Amy Flurry's website

A Big Loss To the Creative Community: Nagi Noda. Her Work Will Always Be Remembered.

Above: Nagi Noda (1973-2008)

The creative world lost a great talent last week. Sadly, Nagi Noda, the Japanese artist/designer/art director, (and most recently fashion designer) as well as the creator of hanpanda, passed away on Sunday, September 7. She was only 35. Noda had experienced ongoing complications related to a bad car accident last year that resulted in chronic pain. The exact cause of death was not specified.


Above: Hanpanda

Sheila Stepanek, CEO/EP Partizan US, who represented Noda, says that Noda passed "in her Mark Ryden dress, Chanel boots, perfect make-up with Viktor & Rolf lace black eye lashes."

Noda was best known in the ad industry for her fantastic "Sentimental Journey" clip for Japanese pop star Yuki, which featured multiple "analog" clones of the singer and was featured in Saatchi's 2006 New Directors Showcase.



However, her recent fashion collaboration with artist Mark Ryden and her 'hair hats' are what I will always remember and if you never saw either of them, I'd like to share them with you here.




Shot by photographer Kenneth Cappello this past April (shown seated below on the far right), her hair hats are hair shaped into various animals.











Her foray into fashion with Mark Ryden gave us some fabulous clothes and some unforgettable branding:



Most recently she collaborated with ultra popular artist Mark Ryden to come out with a clothing label named Broken Label, sold at Colette in Paris. Below are some of the pieces from their line:








And some ads for the brand (note the meat on the floor on the ads - very Mark Ryden):






And here are some pics from her own online diary that break my heart:






Bio:
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See more of her work here. And her music videos here.
May she rest in peace.