Trash Origami
Trash Origami: 25 Paper Folding Projects Reusing Everyday Materials
by Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander
Hardcover (8.5x11 inches, 96 pages) with DVD
Tuttle Publishing, October 2010
ISBN-13:
9780804841351
Don't dump your wastepaper into the garbage - it's time to fold! Famed origami artists and award-winning authors Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander show you the way with Trash Origami. Chock full of 25 fun and innovative origami projects from their renowned Origamido Studio as well as many of the world's most talented paper folding designers - including Nick Robinson, Herman Van Goubergen and Rona Gurkewitz, among others.
The origami models presented in Trash Origami include designs made from old calendar pages, candy wrappers, envelopes, newspaper, postcards, paper grocery bags and more. The accompanying DVD will make the folding process clearer and aid folders of all levels. Also provided is a guide to everyday materials that have the most folding potential - leaving readers inspired to design and display their very own trash origami!
The book and accompanying DVD contain instructions for folding:
- Crowns & Towers Game
- Jumping Frogs
- Scoopy Ball Game
- Flap Cube Cores & Paneled Cubes
- Photo Cubes
- Modular Chess & Checkerboard Sets
- Ali's Folded Dish
Nick Robinson (United Kingdom)
- Masu Boxes
- Star Box Lids
- Candy Wrapper Butterflies
- Interlocking Flower Petals
- Sailboat Envelopes
- Flapping Bird Envelopes
- Shuttle Darts
- Art-Deco Wings
- Snack Bag Wallets
- Bag Ballot Boxes
- Custom-Bound Books
- Rona Gurkewitz (USA)
- Calendar Wreaths
- Inspired by Paolo Bascetta (Italy) and Mette Pederson (USA)
- Curler Unit Balls
- Herman Van Goubergen (Belgium)
- Paper Hearts
- Based on a design by Florence Temko (USA)
- Crumpled Mushrooms
- Vincent Floderer (France)
- Pinwheel Envelopes
- Dave Brill's Origami Masu
- David Brill (United Kingdom)