Another wonderful origami tessellation-inspired landscape work from Mélisande. I think the descriptive title is self-explanatory.
I really enjoy these works of hers, and I hope she continues with this very inspirational line of art!
See previous coverage of this genre here:
Origami Landscape: Stars and Clouds over the Mountains
Dreaming Spirals has this great photo howto on making a Concertina book. It’s two covers with a stack of preliminary bases, flipflopping back and forth in sets of two to make a nice, origami inspired book. the pages expand out and open while you’re reading it! A very cute and fun papercraft, I think.
Liz Plummer (the author of site) has done a great job showing all the steps; I encourage you to give it a look, and think about making someone YOU know a special little book for Christmas! If you’re an origami fanatic like me, I’m guessing you probably have a nice stash of paper squirreled away… now’s the time to break out the lokta, washi, unryu, or whatever and use it for this project.
here’s a few steps to whet your appetite:
UPDATE: Hey! the nice people over at Make: Magazine picked this up on their blog!
Mélisande posted this a while back, and I missed it due to the Thanksgiving holiday here in the States.
It’s a variation on her “cathedral floor patterns”, which has an interesting arrangement of large and small hexagons interspersed with trapezoids. a new and unique tiling, from my perspective.
don’t forget to check out the flip side, as well as the backlit version on her flickr photostream!
you can see her pre-folding sketches on her website, here:
Tokyoahead – Masters of Origami Exhibition, Hangar 7, Salzburg
I found a nice photo gallery of the exhibits from the Masters of Origami exhibition in Austra this year. Since the website for the event was practically unusable due to a horrendous flash design, I found this to be much more approachable.
I had a chance to see the book produced for this event last Sunday at our monthly Origami Minnesota meeting. (thanks Carol!) It’s quite well put together, although as always I would have preferred more images. Not sure it is worth the cost, but I’m more of a blueprint kind of guy, and less a coffee-table-book person.
Here’s a few images from the website:
edit: hotlinked photos don’t work. Sorry, Tokyoahead.com webmaster! my apologies.
Please proceed to the website directly to check out the photos. thanks!
Found this wonderful design via we-make-money-not-art. It’s a flexible, contracting pedestrian bridge by Thomas Heatherwick, which collapses upon itself to create an octagonal shape when not in use. It’s all hydraulics, and it looks fascinating.
He’s also currently working on an innovative Japanese buddhist temple design, based on folded/crumpled/draped fabric:
UPDATED: these additional photos from PingMag!
