![]() ![]() While the structure of the triangle-shaped pieces and the way they are interlocked with each other makes the pieces relatively strong, paper, she notes, “can be crushed. “That was a whole iterative process,” she explains. The hardest part was how to package these dimensional, sort-of fragile, paper-made pieces. Her collections also bear Greek names, such as Themis, Nyx, and Gaia. Nyman’s company, Kaleidowall, takes its name from the Greek words kalos, which means beautiful, and eidos, which means wall. “I always wanted to be creative, and dreamed of having an Etsy shop,” she says, recalling how much fun she had as a youngster making everything from jewelry and key chains to cards and friendship bracelets, which she sold to classmates. Nyman’s creative soul was invigorated while planning her wedding, doing “all the DIY things,” including making a paper backdrop using varying sizes and types of paper. She worked in merchandising and marketing at several fashion stores, but found the work low paying and stressful, so transitioned to a small digital advertising agency. “I’m very practical and results driven, but I also love things to be beautiful.” ![]() “I was always business minded and entrepreneurial,” says the Pennsylvania native who now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. But she soon changed her major to design and merchandising, which gave her “a nice blend of business, marketing, and design classes.” Kelli Nyman’s modern take on origami encompasses clean, seemingly simple geometric forms that are dimensional, textural and offer a varying viewing experience depending on lighting, time of day, and viewing vantage.ĭespite an early interest in fashion and design, Nyman started college as a business major, because it was practical. “Even though I’m literally just fitting the (papers) into each other, I’m choosing which colors sit next to each other, creating different compositions that aren’t symmetrical and predictable.” “I’m almost painting with the paper, blending the colors together,” Nyman explains. “My goal was to blend that neat and orderly art form (into) something organic, imaginative something you haven’t seen before but is pleasing and harmonious a cross between loose and different, but also neat and straight.” Nyman uses various shades and textures of paper, including translucent vellum, layering them to create different effects. Her pieces are informed not just by shape and composition, which “is very geometric and sort of rigid,” but also her neutral color palette. This dynamic combination – more linear than traditional origami forms - helps set her work apart from other origami artists. The interlocked triangular, folded paper shapes in her creations form dimensional, textural pieces that offer a varying viewing experience depending on lighting, time of day, and viewing vantage point, while the soothing neutral color palettes present a sleek, clean aesthetic. ![]() It’s not surprising that she found her niche in a clean, modern, geometric form of modular origami and created Kaleidowall Paper Craft, selling unique paper wall art. Kelli Nyman dreamed of having a business, then searched for a product, something that embraced both her creative needs and her pragmatic business training. Some creatives make things and dream of having a business. ![]()
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