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]]>For his book folding art, which sees turning book pages into 3D shapes and lettering, Yamaguchi uses second-hand books. These books have been usually left to collect dust somewhere, and the artist gives them a new purpose.
According to Yamaguchi, he was intrigued by origami since early childhood. He discovered book folding in 2013 thanks to the internet and believed it was a great way to improve his origami skills. Since then, book folding has become an important part of his practice and has brought him worldwide recognition.
Yamaguchi’s book folding works have been acquired by art collectors from all over the world, with more than 1,000 pieces finding a new home in 40 different countries. They are appreciated due to the artist’s meticulous dedication to the craft. He never cuts the paper and instead remains true to the original origami way of folding.
Besides the book folding, Yamaguchi also continued to work on more traditional origami. His works include creating complex paper sculptures without the use of glue or scissors.
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]]>Mayumi Fukuda hails from Japan, but she was originally born in São Paulo, Brazil, and currently resides in Leipzig, Germany. Life took her to many different places, and she actually discovered her love for origami jewelry while residing in Lisbon, Portugal.
Back in the day, Fukuda was working in cinema and television, after graduating in public relations, but her life turned upside down when she re-discovered her love for origami.
“Paper revealed itself as the main material and the artist explores in a unique direction its lightness and volume through different techniques… She manages to break with the tradition of the predominant use of metal in jewelry and faces paper as a truly precious material,” writes Fukuda on her Etsy page.
In addition to selling her jewelry on Etsy, she also filmed a course for Domestika where she shared the secrets of her craft, from teaching you the basics of the Modular origami technique to showing you how to apply a paper treatment that makes her jewelry water-resistant.
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]]>These days, modern-day origami artists take the art of paper to a whole other level. Case in point: origami artist Ross Symons. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, Ross is a fan of all things paper, but loves especially folding paper into animals (most commonly birds but also insects and mammals).
For Symons, the interest in this ancient practice arose with an Instagram challenge. “In 2014 I decided to do a 365-day Instagram project where I folded a different origami figure every day for a year,” he shared in an interview with Allesio La Rufa. “All I could fold before then was a crane and a rabbit. I did the project so I could get better at origami and track my progress.”
A year later, and Symons was fully hooked. In fact, he quit his full-time job as a website developer and launched a brand, White on Rice, that is wholly dedicated to paper art. With tens of thousands of followers on Instagram, Symons created quite a stir online. These days, his work mainly revolves around crafting original brand content that is focused around his paper creations. His work includes origami commissions, origami installations, and stop motion animation.
“Instagram is a platform that, if used correctly, you can connect with thousands of people around the world,” says Symons. “Without Instagram, I would not be able to do what I do for a living. I connected with many people who folded paper and then eventually with people that I did work with. It is now my main marketing channel.”
This just goes to show how far the 6th century-year-old craft evolved. You’d want to take note:
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]]>In order to make his samurais, archers, and all kind of different warriors, Könkkölä uses a combination of dry and wet origami techniques while avoiding ripping or cutting the paper. Some of the pieces can take up to 50 hours to create, while the whole process from planning and designing to execution can take months.
“There are several hundreds of steps to fold it from the square and there are probably thousands of individual folds,” the artist describes his creative process.
Maybe the most impressive thing about Könkkölä and his origami is that he never had a formal education. He is self-taught and has been perfecting his skills through books and video tutorials for the past 15 years.
Check out more of his works below.
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]]>She studied architecture but opted to become a 3D visualize and baker. Her main method in baking uses a 3D printer to make a silicon mold that could then be used to form a cake.
A few months ago, she found inspiration in the ancient art of origami. “I spent a great amount of time folding sheets of paper and learning methods and principles of origami. Inspired by the beauty of lines and patterns of folds, I created a few models using 3Ds max and printed them on a 3D printer,” the pastry chef writes on her Instagram.
“The first fold that I tried to make was the Miura-ori fold, an origami-based scheme devised in 1970 by Japanese astrophysicist Koryo Miura to store solar panels for deployment in space. Firstly, I tried to make a model for my mould out of paper – I tried making it of different sizes, tried out different folding variants, used different kinds of paper, and finished up with 3D modeling softwares.”
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]]>The post This Book Folding and Origami Art is Simply Amazing appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>For his book folding art, which sees turning book pages into 3D shapes and lettering, Yamaguchi uses second-hand books. These books have been usually left to collect dust somewhere, and the artist gives them a new purpose.
According to Yamaguchi, he was intrigued by origami since early childhood. He discovered book folding in 2013 thanks to the internet and believed it was a great way to improve his origami skills. Since then, book folding has become an important part of his practice and has brought him worldwide recognition.
Yamaguchi’s book folding works have been acquired by art collectors from all over the world, with more than 1,000 pieces finding a new home in 40 different countries. They are appreciated due to the artist’s meticulous dedication to the craft. He never cuts the paper and instead remains true to the original origami way of folding.
Besides the book folding, Yamaguchi also continued to work on more traditional origami. His works include creating complex paper sculptures without the use of glue or scissors.
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]]>The post Mayumi Fukuda is Using the Art of Origami to Craft Artisinal Paper Jewelry appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>Mayumi Fukuda hails from Japan, but she was originally born in São Paulo, Brazil, and currently resides in Leipzig, Germany. Life took her to many different places, and she actually discovered her love for origami jewelry while residing in Lisbon, Portugal.
Back in the day, Fukuda was working in cinema and television, after graduating in public relations, but her life turned upside down when she re-discovered her love for origami.
“Paper revealed itself as the main material and the artist explores in a unique direction its lightness and volume through different techniques… She manages to break with the tradition of the predominant use of metal in jewelry and faces paper as a truly precious material,” writes Fukuda on her Etsy page.
In addition to selling her jewelry on Etsy, she also filmed a course for Domestika where she shared the secrets of her craft, from teaching you the basics of the Modular origami technique to showing you how to apply a paper treatment that makes her jewelry water-resistant.
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]]>The post Ross Symons Reinvents the Ancient Art of Origami appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>These days, modern-day origami artists take the art of paper to a whole other level. Case in point: origami artist Ross Symons. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, Ross is a fan of all things paper, but loves especially folding paper into animals (most commonly birds but also insects and mammals).
For Symons, the interest in this ancient practice arose with an Instagram challenge. “In 2014 I decided to do a 365-day Instagram project where I folded a different origami figure every day for a year,” he shared in an interview with Allesio La Rufa. “All I could fold before then was a crane and a rabbit. I did the project so I could get better at origami and track my progress.”
A year later, and Symons was fully hooked. In fact, he quit his full-time job as a website developer and launched a brand, White on Rice, that is wholly dedicated to paper art. With tens of thousands of followers on Instagram, Symons created quite a stir online. These days, his work mainly revolves around crafting original brand content that is focused around his paper creations. His work includes origami commissions, origami installations, and stop motion animation.
“Instagram is a platform that, if used correctly, you can connect with thousands of people around the world,” says Symons. “Without Instagram, I would not be able to do what I do for a living. I connected with many people who folded paper and then eventually with people that I did work with. It is now my main marketing channel.”
This just goes to show how far the 6th century-year-old craft evolved. You’d want to take note:
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]]>The post Finnish Artist Creates Impressive Warrior Origami from a Single Sheet of Paper appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>In order to make his samurais, archers, and all kind of different warriors, Könkkölä uses a combination of dry and wet origami techniques while avoiding ripping or cutting the paper. Some of the pieces can take up to 50 hours to create, while the whole process from planning and designing to execution can take months.
“There are several hundreds of steps to fold it from the square and there are probably thousands of individual folds,” the artist describes his creative process.
Maybe the most impressive thing about Könkkölä and his origami is that he never had a formal education. He is self-taught and has been perfecting his skills through books and video tutorials for the past 15 years.
Check out more of his works below.
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]]>The post Baker Creates Amazing Origami-Inspired Cakes appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.
]]>She studied architecture but opted to become a 3D visualize and baker. Her main method in baking uses a 3D printer to make a silicon mold that could then be used to form a cake.
A few months ago, she found inspiration in the ancient art of origami. “I spent a great amount of time folding sheets of paper and learning methods and principles of origami. Inspired by the beauty of lines and patterns of folds, I created a few models using 3Ds max and printed them on a 3D printer,” the pastry chef writes on her Instagram.
“The first fold that I tried to make was the Miura-ori fold, an origami-based scheme devised in 1970 by Japanese astrophysicist Koryo Miura to store solar panels for deployment in space. Firstly, I tried to make a model for my mould out of paper – I tried making it of different sizes, tried out different folding variants, used different kinds of paper, and finished up with 3D modeling softwares.”
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