I’ve been working with David & Charles to produce some “mini box” kits, including paper and a booklet of instructions. Despite the obvious issues of scale, it’s working out quite well. Airplanes and Flowers are out, with Cats, Dogs and Christmas in preparation.
A model celebrating trumps latest fiasco. Check out the trumpigami page!
Delighted to have a relatively recent design in the online magazine of Origami USA. It’s a development of the ideas used with my “Sallas Bowl”. Here, I decided to try completing two opposite ends of a dish, resulting in an asymmetric form.
Fascinating Folded Paper Puzzles by Scott Sherman, Yossi Elran, Ann Schwartz Paperback / Language : English / Pages: : 314 / ISBN-10 : 1032553839 / Dimensions : 20.96 x 1.27 x 27.94 cm / published 2025 The flexagon is a folded paper strip of coloured triangles that […]
Do you love football and want to learn origami? Or love origami and want to learn about football? You do both with this new book from pickle press! Produced to celebrate the Sheffield Home Of Football charity, Footigami is a 54 page A5 booklet that introduces you to the delights of origami and shows how […]
Experience Simon Andersen’s insights and fantastic designs Paperback2024 by Hans Dybkjær “Birds in Origami” is a softback book models by Simon Andersen (1946-2013). Simon Andersen (1946-2013). Andersen was a creative and highly gifted artist who sought meaning from his life almost in isolation from the origami world. His origami was carefully thought out, artistic yet […]
Tarquin Group 2020 2nd Edition 96 pages The first edition of Mathematical Origami was published in 1997 and had 64 pages. This second edition has 144. Only six of the designs in the first edition are included in the second, so you need to invest in both editions! Both editions are primarily aimed at mathematics […]
Some titles I’ve yet to find in print…
Back in the mists of time, I had a semi-regular feature called “It’s Pants”, where I would lay into a low quality origami book. I’ve been inspired to do the same recently for an epic called “The Origami Book”, self-published on Amazon by Jennifer Hoffmann (“crocheter, crafter, Origami expert, wife, and busy mom of three”). […]
I’m generally a bit of a Grinch during this holiday, but here’s contribution for the festive period.
The Mad Magazine Those of a certain age will remember the American satirical MAD magazine and it’s star Alfred E Neuman. One of its popular features was the “Mad Fold-In”, written and drawn by Al Jaffee, who died recently at the ripe age of 102. A Mad Fold-In consists of a single drawing, with text underneath, […]
I taught an online class at the conference in Badalona yesterday – I couldn’t hear them, but thankfully they could hear (and see) me! The last time I went there I was swimming in the sea in November, yet here in Sheffield we have snow & freezing cold.
The Society has lost one of its most treasured and dedicated servants, Penny Groom. Although she was elderly, somewhat frail and had health issues, it was still a massive shock to hear that she had left us. I joined the BOS 40 years ago and have been in near constant contact with Penny since then, […]
Some of you may be aware I’m a keen musician and origami is an excellent recreational sport when waiting before a gig or on the tour bus. I’ve recently completed a tour of the UK with my band Das Rad, alongside the excellent This Celestial Engine. Their keyboard player, Roy Powell, said he tried origami […]
I’ve recently been scanning a collection of diagrams by the late Francis Ow for a project to make all his self-published collections available. No matter how good your scanner is, you will get “bleed through” from the other side of the page. In the past, I’ve used judicious adjustments of the “levels” control to reduce […]
Authors: Ilan Garibi and Dáša ŠeverováNumber of pages: 139Price: £15.90Available: Amazon As somebody who regularly teaches origami to students both young and old I’m always excited to check out new books on the subject, especially when the authors have a high reputation. In the introductory section Origami is listed as providing cognitive benefits including translating […]