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Who are the Most Prolific Origami Designers by Country?

I am seeking your assistance to make a list of the most “Prolific” designers associated with different countries. I’m not looking for quality of design – just the number created.
Please list yourself or others if you have created or know of someone who has created 10 (original designs only) or more ORIGINAL origami designs and which countries you are associated with. If the designer has dual citizenship or lives or has lived as a student or worker in another country – please list all countries.
Example:
Designer: Charles Santee (AKA Firstfold), Country: USA, Estimated number of Designs: over 300 (many more not shown on internet), Basis of Estimate: Internet count (Flickr, Youtube, Deviant Art, Facebook, Twitter, etc.).

For France I think Gachepapier is very prolific. I did not make a count but it is at least 2 models each month since one year and very nice ones http://gachepapier.blogspot.fr/

I jmust looked again at Robert Lang's site. According to his own last published count, he has made over 480 models. I guessing by now that this count is over 500.

I'm not just looking for the very highest score but a larger list of many of the prolific folders from each of the various countries. Include all who have produced at least 10 models!

Anyone want to estimate how many models Jeremy Shafer and Robert Montroll have created?

Argil wrote:For France I think Gachepapier is very prolific. I did not make a count but it is at least 2 models each month since one year and very nice ones http://gachepapier.blogspot.fr/

Thank you, Argil

To answer accurately, according to my blogspot stats, Snoopy is my 80th model. FWIW, you can associate this data with France, Germany and Belgium.

I'm not quite sure of the usefulness of such statistics though - anyone could doodle a model in ten minutes and call it his creation, whereas somebody like Robert Lang has hundreds of complex models to look back on. What counts ? And why does it matter ? I would agree that the anecdotic evidence is fun, mind you ...

i would add sebastien limet for the french list and artur biernacki for the polish.

I forget his name, but last year I met a german folder who had a good claim to something like a thousand (IIRC) published designs, maybe someone knows of him ? He was selling booklets in Freising - probably somebody from the german list knows him too.

gachepapier wrote:I forget his name, ... german folder... thousand (IIRC) published designs ...

you probably mean Klaus-Dieter Ennen

http://origamist.de wrote:In the meantime I created more than 1000 models.

For the Russians, you have Victoria Serova and Vladimir Serov, Andrey Ermakov, Andrey Luknyakov I believe, and probably more.

Sorry for any misspellings.

From Spain there are Manuel Sirgo and Fernando Gilgado, and some of the oldies like Ánibal Voyer

jeko wrote:

gachepapier wrote:I forget his name, ... german folder... thousand (IIRC) published designs ...

you probably mean Klaus-Dieter Ennen

http://origamist.de wrote:In the meantime I created more than 1000 models.

Yes, that's the one ! Thank you, I knew I hadn't dreamt him up

for the german list i'd like to add stephan weber (http://www.origami-live.de) and jens-helge dahmen (http://www.freewebs.com/faltkunst). the most popular austrian folders alive are probably anna kastlunger and gerwin sturm (http://www.origamiaustria.at).
a quite talented and active czech folder is petr stuchly (http://www.flickr.com/photos/petr-stuchly/) and for the hungarian list i have to mention jozsef zsebe (http://zsebeorigami.atw.hu/).

akugami wrote:i would add sebastien limet for the french list and artur biernacki for the polish.

thanks

I'm a "young" designer , started creation one years ago and few months ... And I have only about 80 models I think

no wrong modesty, sebastien! firstfold asked for designers with 10 or more own models - so it doesn't really matter if you're a young or an old designer - and to me it was a need to recommend you.

Mexico: Sebastian Arellano
Uruguay: Roman Diaz
Colombia: Daniel Naranjo
Chile: Nicolas Gajardo
Ecuador: Sebastian Landeta
Peru: Roberto Romero
Switzerland: Christiane Bettens and Sipho Mabona

Over 100 models each one.

canada: joseph wu and quentin trollip
england: david brill, edwin corrie and nick robinson