Paper Olympics

Paper Olympics is a series of serial plane paper sculptures of athletes of a range of different olympic athletes. A project commissioned by stock image photographer Abel Mitjá. He first approached me early 2015 with the idea of creating a series of paper pieces to represent several disciplines of the Olympics. after a lot of sketching of different ideas of how to best represent each sport I decided to focus on serial planes and the movement of each athlete. The whole concept of this design was to express movement using paper. The added texture, light and volume that the technique provides reinforces the fluidity of the pieces. In order to digitalise each figure designed and achieve the correct posture I had in mind, I had to work hand in hand with Barbara García and Jordi Sosa, a talented Industrial designer and a 3D artist. The process was a challenge that required a huge team effort to get just the right positioning. Of course each section needed to be the exact shape to attain the look of the soft curves. Then came the cutting... I hand cut all of the pieces and used tiny 3mm separators to assemble them. It was a huge job as some of the figures have around 150 tiny pieces and up to 500 separators. The project required many, many hours of work, but the end result was very satisfying.