LaFosse & Alexander’s Essential Book of Origami: The Complete Guide for Everyone: Origami Book With 16 Lessons and Downloadable Instructional Video

372 Pages·2016·15.8 MB·English

by  Michael G. Lafosse, Richard L. Alexander

Contents
Origami as Expressive Art
The Global Origami Movement
An Inspirational “LaFossophy” of Origami
Folding Socially
It’s All About the Art
Practical Considerations
Choosing and Preparing Your Origami Paper
Origami Preservation
Showing Your Origami Pieces in Public
Selling Your Origami Art
Achieving Elegance in Your Folded Art
A Guide to Origami Diagrams and Symbols

The Projects
The Japanese Crane
Lessons from the Heart
Anne LaVin’s Squirrel
The Great White Shark
The Elegant - Simple Hummingbird
The Dim Sum Bun
Ambrose the Skunk
A Seahorse for Al Miyatake
Humuhumunukunukuapua‘a
Yellow Tang for Mariko
Foley (or FOALie) the Pony
The Happy Good-Luck Bat
The Alexander Aztec Swallowtail Butterfly
The Wedding Orchid
Enough of this Cat!
The Leatherback Sea Turtle
Acknowledgments
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Dedication
We lovingly dedicate this collection of origami lessons to our dear
friends and mentors, Mrs. Kyoko Kondo and Dr. Shigeo Kondo.
Kyoko has been a lifelong, enthusiastic, international ambassador
of origami, having served the national organization OrigamiUSA
in many capacities for decades. She and Shigeo have personally
nurtured countless folders and artists by attending their events
and purchasing their art and publications. This unwavering
support was essential to our becoming professional origami
designers, authors and teachers. As a former Suzuki Method
violin teacher, Kyoko knows well the importance and
effectiveness of guided practice in any art. We hope you enjoy
sharing these origami lessons with your students, just as Kyoko
and Shigeo have shared so much with so many for so long!
Origami as Expressive Art
FOREWORD BY ORIGAMIDO STUDIO COFOUNDER RICHARD
L. ALEXANDER
rigami as an expressive art form is relatively new, and in the
Olast few decades has been marked by astounding innovation.
This excitement is why Michael LaFosse and I founded Origamido
Studio in 1996. There, we have been able to share our joy of
designing and folding origami art through publishing, teaching
and hosting hand-paper making workshops with other folding
colleagues and artists. Michael named our studio “Origamido,”
which is Japanese for “fold – paper – school.” The “do” suffix
implies a long-term, dedicated study. Michael was familiar with
this because his father learned Judo in the US Air Force (and later
became an instructor himself), and Michael has also studied
Taekwondo for over forty years. Many of our paper-folding
students and customers share the “do” — that lifelong passion for
origami. To us, it is much more than a hobby, and we have
dozens of friends who use their annual vacation time to attend
folding conventions now held all around the world.
What is origami art, and why might you want to study it?
Although the invention of paper was documented in China about
two thousand years ago, paper folding as a pastime seems to be
only a few hundred years old. Until the last century, only a
handful of objects were realized. It was (and still is) often
dismissed as a trivial amusement for children. At best it was
considered a folk craft.
Only since about the middle of the twentieth century has
origami exploded in popularity, and there is now a class of paper
folding that clearly rises above the craft level. We define origami
art as folded paper that expresses the human spirit. So many
artists now express emotions so elegantly through folded paper
that major museums are booking origami masterworks presented