Help with finding Origami book

General discussion about Origami, Papers, Diagramming, ...
Post Reply
annabel
Newbie
Posts: 3
Joined: May 7th, 2007, 5:22 am

Help with finding Origami book

Post by annabel »

I remember reading a book about Origami a while ago and am dying to find it again but cannot remember the title at all. It mentions wet folding and in the few pages of beautiful color pages in the center, had lions and a family of dogs. All of the folding in the photos were very real, and i think wet folded because none of them had stiff angles or corners. It was sort of a showcase of the best work of different artists, but also had diagrams for a few of the animals in the photos in the center. The whole book was designed and printed very nicely. Does this description by any chance remind anybody of a certain book?

More specifically, I'm looking for the mouse that was in the book, and it looked very much like this one:

http://www.giladorigami.com/P_Mouse_Mizuno.JPG

If anybody knows where i can find the diagram for this mouse that woudl be great too. Thank you sooo much everybody!! :)
User avatar
Cupcake
Buddha
Posts: 1989
Joined: July 1st, 2006, 1:59 pm
Location: Canada
Contact:

Post by Cupcake »

Was it possibly one of Akira Yoshizawa's books?
Ryan MacDonell
My Designs
User avatar
Brimstone
Buddha
Posts: 1729
Joined: November 23rd, 2004, 3:59 am
Location: Colombia, South America
Contact:

Post by Brimstone »

It might be what Cupcake just said I do not recognise the model so I could not assure it. What I can tell you is that the picture you showed is from Gilad's home page.

You could go to http://www.giladorigami.com/ and search for his email address and ask him, he'll surely know. I could search the address for you but I don't like posting email addresses on public forums
Last edited by Brimstone on May 8th, 2007, 7:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.
User avatar
Cupcake
Buddha
Posts: 1989
Joined: July 1st, 2006, 1:59 pm
Location: Canada
Contact:

Post by Cupcake »

Well, heres a link to the bopok review of where Yoshizawa's mouse was published:
http://www.giladorigami.com/BO_Yoshizawa_Exn.html
Ryan MacDonell
My Designs
User avatar
xaoslord
Junior Member
Posts: 90
Joined: January 12th, 2007, 8:41 pm
Location: Grayson, Kentucky

Post by xaoslord »

It sounds like the book you are referring to is "ORIGAMIDO: Masterworks of Paper Folding" by Michael Lafosse. It wasn't meant to as a how-to book (although there are a few diagrams) but to showcase origami as an art.

http://store.origamido.com/ormaofpafo.html

You can get it directly from Origamido Studios, and even comes signed by Michael Lafosse. I hope this helps.
-Ray My Flickr Album
"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers." -Elric
Post Reply