Surrounded by Hills and Valleys.

For the first quarter of my teaching career, that inconvenient mortgage paying distraction to total world creative domination, I taught mostly Graphics. Not graphic communication, nice posters and font appreciation, but graphic products....making stuff out of card and drawing it in 2 point perspective.

I wish Graphics had been an option subject when I was a student, because it's great.

Or was.

It's rather become extinct in comprehensive education because the youngsters enjoy themselves too much and their were too few mentions of imperial colonies. Possibly.

Technical drawing...isometric, orthographic and the like gave a structure to the creative responses and making objects from thin, pliant materials like paper and card meant you had to be accurate, but still produce quality stuff.

Why is this relevant?, I hear you mutter.....there's only ever 3 people in here, I can literally pick you out.

Well, here's a few examples of the card creations I have been playing with recently.

Each of them started as a sketch or doodle somewhere, as all the best ideas do of course. I then prototyped them roughly before moving into illustrator and producing the final digital images.

They slot together without glue for the most part, which means kids can make them, once they're lopped off a couple of digits cutting them out first.

Copies of many of these are available on the website - www.tameink.com

I hate the term card-crafting incidently, makes everything sound really middle-class and twee, perhaps created by that frightful Kirstie lady off the telly. Who made her queen of all thinks craft btw? The worst.

A lot of inspiration came from Desktop Gremlins - they used to have a website, but it doesn't appear to be around anymore....Google it. Genius.

If you have downloaded and made any of these, send me a picture, I'll post them.

Unless they're a bit shoddy, you people have no place here.

Pete.

P.s. - you get the hills and valley reference, right? Both are types of folds....

I know you knew that.

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