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Brightly Colored Origami Works by Mademoiselle Maurice

Known internationally for her paper crafted street art, always in a kaleidoscope of colors, Mademoiselle Maurice’s installations are inevitably temporary, and that makes them all the more appealing.

She adopted her unique style after living in Japan for a year, discovering the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. Today, her rainbow, origami artworks – made up of thousands of colorful shapes – can be found everywhere from San Francisco to Sweden, from Italy to Montreal. Discover more on her website.

Sketches Khoa Vu

Khoa Vu is a left-handed architect and graphic designer based in San Francisco, California who recently graduated with high honors from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently pursuing his Master in Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design. 

Khoa grew up in Vietnam where he started his architectural journey at Saigon Architecture University before moving to California in 2010. He picked up his studies in Orange County and shortly after, transferred to UC Berkeley where he receipted the 2015 Eisner Prize for highest achievement in the creative art. His love for design and creation has grown and evolved through these experiences. Khoa is passionate about systematic approach in architectural design, the marriage between art and science and finding a harmonious balance between the two worlds. 

“barcode room is a concept studio apartment composed of product furniture-walls which move freely from side to side, permitting the resident to customize the size of space to fit a variety of uses.  Placing functional elements such as storage and furniture into these walls, only to be pulled out when in use, also allows for more of the floor area to be used by the inhabitant and guests, thus creating a space where one is able to both comfortably live and entertain a different number of guests easily.”