by Elsa Mora | Aug 23, 2018
Friends, Today I’m excited to announce that The Art of the Fold by Hedi Kyle and Ulla Warchol is already available for pre-order! You can purchase it wherever books are sold and at: www.laurenceking.com www.indiebound.org and other independent bookstores Book...
by Elsa Mora | Dec 22, 2014
* Today I’m excited to share a fun book by PAPERMADE™ with you. Paper Robots. 20 Easy-to-Make Robots. My original idea was to save our copy for the Winter break, so we could build 4 or 5 robots a day with the kids, but they couldn’t wait. We...
by Elsa Mora | May 30, 2014
I was able to create this cool paper piece that you see below thanks to Helen Hiebert’s new book, which provided me with the pattern. This GIF animation demonstrates how the mechanism works when you move the little tab with the arrows up and down. The...
by Elsa Mora | Apr 10, 2014
* UPDATE: The winner of this giveaway is Goldie Goldbloom. Congratulations, Goldie! Artist Emmanuel Jose created Clipped Wings, a bird-themed deck of cards cut entirely by hand. The Clipped Wings deck is now available to order for $11 through his Kickstarter campaign....
by Elsa Mora | Mar 26, 2014
* Marek Cina is an artist from Bratislava-mesto, Slovakia. I love the cleverness of this pop-up book that he created. It is black humor at its finest. 🙂 To see more projects by Marek, you can visit his Behance portfolio. MAREK CINA – POP-UP BOOK from enrik...
by Elsa Mora | Nov 8, 2013
* Illustrator Sarah Dennis has launched a delightful new paper-cut book of the classic Brother’s Grimm children’s tale Cinderella – just in time for Christmas. Between each double page spread a delicate paper-cut page has been painstakingly designed to interact and...
by Elsa Mora | Nov 7, 2013
I was thrilled when Dean Blackwood from Revenant Records invited me to be part of an extraordinary project this year. Revenant is a Grammy-winning record label based in Austin, Texas, formed in 1996 by John Fahey and Dean Blackwood. One of Revenant’s...
by Elsa Mora | Dec 3, 2012
This week I’m honored to host this exciting giveaway. It consists on 2 new books illustrated by Kevin Stanton. These books are a special edition of Shakespeare’s volumes Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet. Published by Sterling Signature. What you...
by Elsa Mora | May 31, 2012
Today I’m hosting an exciting giveaway. It is for two luxurious books beautifully illustrated by my fellow paper cutter Kevin Stanton. (Sterling Signature). We’re talking about Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. He did such a fine job. Each book contains...
by Elsa Mora | Mar 15, 2011
COMING SOON. AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER AT AMAZON. In this post I promised to let you know about the progress of the books that I was designing covers for. Today I am extremely excited to announce the birth of one of them titled: PAPER CUTTING. Contemporary...
by Elsa Mora | Oct 19, 2010
h h I’ve been lucky to be involved in the design of two different book covers: One of the books is a special edition of Eva luna by Isabel Allende. (Penguin Books) The other one is about contemporary paper artists (by Chronicle Books) I’m extremely honored...
by Elsa Mora | Jun 23, 2009
Paper: Tear, Fold, Rip, Crease, Cut is a wonderful new book that I was sooo happy to receive recently! Nothing makes me more excited than a new book about paper and this one is really special. Paper: Tear, Fold, Rip, Crease, Cut focuses on all aspects of paper...