The paper prototyping is a fun and easy process. We dedicated one day to paper prototyping, in order to find the form of the flower. This process involved us, cutting, gluing, folding, and layering paper petals onto the Miura Ori paper form. Through this process, we learned that paper prototyping is more about doing and being hands-on than thinking about what to create, before making it. I believe the key is to just make something, it is a time of exploration. We can examine what aspects we like best after the process is done, so that we can produce many lovely variations to choose upon.
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| Paper Prototypes |
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| Final Flower Petal form. |
After paper prototyping, it became apparent that we wanted to stick with using paper as the material for the flower because it was light, versatile, and easy to work with. I remembered a specialty store that sold paper at Granville Island. I went to the store Paper-YA the next day and spent almost 2 hours there selecting paper for the flower. I was amazed by the different types of hand-craft paper there were with various textures and colours. I found a creme colour paper with natural organic fibers for the flower and a Japanese tissue paper (that was almost like fabric) for the leaves.
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| Organic & Natural Paper Selection |
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