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I'm looking for a good origami book. Is there anyone you would reccomend? Digrams that are easy to understand, because I am pretty new when it is about origami. I think diagrams are very hard to understand, so a simple and good explanation could be nice.

Is this book good?
http://www.origami-usa.org/thesource/ag ... id=B10_474

PS! I love to fold animals, birds and insects... Like Eric Joisel and Robert Langs (but their things are a little to diffucult)


Thank you, and sorry for the bad english! =)

Origami Design Secrets is an excellent book, but absolutely not for you at this time. Maybe next year if you apply yourself...
I would recommend this book
Just click on this link , this is an excellent starting book, then move up from there.
Good luck, & stay with it !

hei,
It depends of your language. Nick Robinson , in general, has very good books and excellent artwork of diagrams.
But if you are a french speaker, I will recommend Didier Boursin or Hirota Junko... check both amazon com,co.uk and fr..
Good luck.
Francoise B halvorsen

For a beginner "Origami Design Secrets" is one of the worst books possible. It will bring you lots of frustration. You should rather go for some John Montroll books. They are easy to understand have nice folding sequences and are very cheap. They are sure more enjoyable and better suited for beginners.

Kunihiko Kasahara also makes diagrams that are easy to understand.

origami_8 wrote:For a beginner "Origami Design Secrets" is one of the worst books possible. It will bring you lots of frustration. You should rather go for some John Montroll books. They are easy to understand have nice folding sequences and are very cheap. They are sure more enjoyable and better suited for beginners.

While I agree that Montroll's books, and many others that have been suggested are better for beginners, I do want to point out that "one of the worst books possible" is a little strong. I think it highly depends on the person starting out. It was one of the first few books I purchased and I have never regretted it.

For me, ODS was an wonderful starting book. Not because I could do all the models, I certainly couldn't. But the mathematical view of Origami, and the logical approach to design and examining the CPs was beyond fascinating to me. It really pulled me in to origami much more quickly than the Montroll style books ever had. I had dabbled with those books for years, but when I found ODS, it really grabbed my attention and sucked me in to the whole wide world of Origami.

So, for the mathematically inclined, this book may be a wonderful starting point. For people, like me, driven to master the difficult (that you didn't even know existed), ODS is a marvelous starting book.

But if math doesn't excite you, if reading a logical treatise on design techniques of something that you don't know how to do yourself seems off-putting, then this certainly isn't the book for you - yet. For me, and others I know like me (with an engineering/math background) this is a captivating book to have early on.

I should also state that I had this book to read, but several others to fold from, so that I could actually start practicing the things I knew I needed to be able to do in order to conquer the models in ODS. And I've found that I've come back to re-read it later and get much more out of it now than I did then. But it was certainly an important book for me to have back then since it captivated me so. It was exactly what I needed.

Kim

Origami design secrets brings to you a lot of frustration also if you are an excellent folder.

It's no question that "Origami Design Secrets" is a fantastic book, but I stay at my opinion that it isn't suitable for a beginner. As soon as someone has gained enough practice, it sure is worth having, but there are other books that should come first like for example the above mentioned Montroll books or Jeremy Shafer's "Origami to Astonish and Amuse".

Thank you for good advices! I have bought some easy books of John Montroll and Robert J. Lang. Think the books is somethings for me at this time. They have from easy to difficult diagrams, and I hope I can learn how to "interpret" the diagrams with help from them. I will remember the book by Hideaki Sakata you mentioned, gordigami..

I did not bought ODS, but if I keep on increasing my origami skills, I think I buy it later... I'm quite a young boy, and I don't think the mathematical things are something for me, for the present!

Again, thank you for helping! =) I have been a lot of clever of your answers!

(I'm a little proud of my self at the moment, making the rat by Eric Joisel, but it is surely just peanuts for you in here... )