Video Find: Extreme Origami – Artist Creates Paper Model of Audi A7

Video Find: Extreme Origami – Artist Creates Paper Model of Audi A7 

 It’s amazing what some people can make out of paper. Giant robots, World War II-era planes, life-size house pets—you name it; the odds are somebody’s made a papercraft of it. This model of an Audi A7, commissioned by Audi of America, is a great example of just what you can do with a few hundred sheets of paper and a good deal of patience.

Known for his elaborately detailed paper models, graphic designer, Taras Lesko, printed 285 pages of card stock in order to bring the A7 to life. Contained in those pages were 750 laser-printed parts, each digitally rendered by Lesko beforehand.  In the video, Lesko makes piecing the Audi together look like child’s play, but the project actually took a total of 245 hours to complete.
Since most people would probably lose their mind sitting through a 245-hour-long video, the footage is time-lapsed and edited to speed up the more tedious parts of the creative process. Cutting, folding and gluing each piece by hand, the artist takes his time putting the wheels together first. As soon as the wheels look almost good enough to be bolted onto a real Audi, he then moves on to forming the A7’s body. Slowly but surely, the A7’s characteristic shape starts to materialize.
Taking just as much care in assembling the interior, Lesko massages the card stock into front and rear seats, a center console and a dashboard. Now it’s just a matter of putting all the pieces together, which the artist seems to do with relative ease. The finished product looks pretty close to the real thing. Although they detract from the model’s realism, the angular folds lend to its coolness factor, since they let you know the model has been constructed by hand. To turn 750 two-dimensional parts into one authentic-looking three-dimensional object is worthy of some serious street cred. So if you’ve got an eye for design, a surplus of card stock and a lot of extra time on your hands, you can try building your own papercraft Audi.

Audi A7

Audi A7