Trash Origami: 25 Paper Folding Projects Reusing Everyday Materials: Includes Origami Book & Downloadable Video Instructions
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Don't dump your wastepaper into the garbage--it's time to fold! World-renowned origami artists and award-winning authors Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander show you the way with Trash Origami. This origami book presents unique and fun projects from their Origamido Studio and from some of the world's best paper designers, including Nick Robinson, Herman Van Goubergen, and Rona Gurkewitz.
The origami models are presented for the reader who may have little or no previous folding experience, making it a great origami-for-kids book and an effective way to learn origami. However, experienced paper folders will also be intrigued by the novel nature of the folds and the unusual materials involved. The origami designs are made from old calendar pages, candy wrappers, envelopes, newspaper, postcards, paper grocery bags and more. The downloadable video tutorial will make the folding process clearer and aid folders of all skill levels. Also provided is a guide to everyday materials that have the most folding potential leaving readers inspired to design and display their very own "trash" origami.
This origami book features:
- Full-color, 95-page instructional book
- 25 unique origami projects
- Projects from top paper folding designers
- Clear, step-by-step directions
- Paper folding techniques and tips
- Accompanying downloadable or streamable instructional video
Origami projects include:
- Photo Cubes
- Candy Wrapper Butterflies
- Interlocking Flower Petals
- Custom-Bound Books
- And many more…
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Trash Origami - Michael G. LaFosse
DEDICATION
This book is lovingly dedicated to the memory of our dear friend Florence Temko, one of the true pioneers of paperfolding in the West. Her prolific career designing origami projects, books, and kits for Tuttle Publishing for so many years was an inspiration to us, and we cherish memories of meeting and folding with her at origami conventions. We fondly recall a laughter-filled lunch with her at the Red Lion Inn in West Stockbridge, when she visited Massachusetts one beautiful day.
Florence would certainly applaud the concept of creatively reusing found materials for origami. Her generation lived by the saying, It’s what you do with what you’ve got!
Turning trash into fun is magic, and origami has always been about making the whole much more than just the sum of its parts. Florence, we all miss you. Our hope is that your elegant designs continue to live on, inspiring and enlightening new generations of folders!
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First edition
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TUTTLE PUBLISHING® is a registered trademark of Tuttle Publishing, a division of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Raw Materials
Making Squares
Crowns & Towers Game
Jumping Frogs
Scoopy Ball Game
Flap Cube Cores & Paneled Cubes
Photo Cubes
Modular Chess & Checkerboard Sets
Ali's Folded Dish
Masu Boxes
Star Box Lids
Candy Wrapper Butterflies
Interlocking Flower Petals
Sailboat Envelopes
Flapping Bird Envelopes
Shuttle Darts
Art-Deco Wings
Snack Bag Wallets
Bag Ballot Boxes
Custom-Bound Books
Calendar Wreaths
Curler Unit Balls
Paper Hearts
Crumpled Mushrooms
Pinwheel Envelopes
Dave Brill's Origami Masu
Suggested Uses for Trash Origami
Acknowledgments
Resources
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INTRODUCTION
We all discard materials that could provide a rich bounty of possibilities to the origami artist, if given the chance. In fact, trash to most is free paper to the origami artist! Which pieces of trash
can be, or should be repurposed by folding? Which origami models are appropriate for the most typical types of discarded papers and packaging?
Origami artists and authors, Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander present 25 origami projects from the Origamido Studio, as well as some created by the world’s best paper folding designers. All of these projects are clearly demonstrated in the Bonus Material. Use pause,
play,
forward,
or back
controls to view or review any part of a lesson at your own pace. It’s like having private origami lessons from a master!
Some of these models were selected for the young folder who may have little or no previous folding experience. Others may appeal to the more experienced or sophisticated folder, making the book wonderful for family get-togethers, home schooling, and other, fun, sharing and teaching opportunities.
Sometimes people who appreciate origami purchase origami books or kits, but get too frustrated by the drawings before completing any of the models. Use the video instructions to better understand what the diagrams mean! In this way, this book and the Bonus Material will convert those other, unused origami books into newfound fun. So many of our origami video customers have thanked us for helping their dusty, older, unused or underused origami books and kits come alive.
Most schools have less money to purchase art supplies than they had in previous years, but there may be more to learn from reusing materials we would otherwise throw away without a second thought. Get ready to look at the contents of your wastebaskets and recycling bins with a different sensibility. There’s hours of fun and creative potential represented by FREE PAPER! Fold your trash into a treasure of pleasure!
RAW MATERIALS
Here we have listed a few of the things that come to mind, and we know you will soon find others. After folding a few of the projects in this book, you will soon be looking at these materials much differently. You will know where to trim the wrapper, photo or bag to correctly position a specific image, symbol, or color to appear in the desired place