Akira yoshizawa

Elephant, designed by Akira Yoshizawa and folded by Himanshu Agrawal (source: ) #origami #elephant

Akira Yoshizawa is noted as the grandfather of Origami for his drastic contribution to the art. Born in Kaminokawa, Japan on March 14th, 1911, Yoshizawa as a child loved teaching himself Origami. H…

A huge exhibition of 80 contemporary origami artists featuring 120 paper creations is planned to take place this summer at Cooper Union in New York. Cooper Union was the site of the first origami exhibition in the United States 55 years ago. Titled Surface to Structure , the event is curated by Uyen Nguyen whoContinue reading "Surface to Structure: An Origami Exhibition Featuring 80 Paper Artists at Cooper Union"

Sounds like an anomaly, right? When I was a kid folding frogs, my mother gave me origami paper that was most certainly dry. But the works below by Vietnamese-American artist Giang Dinh were folded with one *wet* piece of paper. It's a technique called "Wet-Folding", invented by the great Japanese origami master Akira Yushizawa (pictured right).

Self-Portrait (origami) by Akira Yoshizawa, 2011

Self portrait in origami by Grandmaster Akira Yoshizawa.

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Instead of just looking into paper sculpture design I have started to investigate the paper technique of origami. I came across the artist Akira Yoshizawa whose work you can see below, the Japanese artist is considered to be the grandmaster of origami. According to his estimations he has created over 50,000 models which have all been published in his 18 books. Yoshizawa uses a number of folding and bending techniques which include the 'wet folding' method. This technique is when the paper is…

Akira Yoshizawa origami rabbit