Spiral Towers
Tomoko Fuse, Japan 2012, Takeo Mermaid Ripple paper (Photo by Herbert Bungartz, Freising. Published in SPIRAL: ORIGAMI | ART | DESIGN by Tomoko Fuse, Viereck Verlag)
Front book jacket Floating Fire
Erik and Martin Demaine, Canada/USA 2013, Canson Mi-Teintes watercolor paper (Photo by the artists)
Frog on a Leaf
Bernie Peyton, USA, 2007 leaf paper: one rectangular sheet of Fabriano backed with mango paper; frog: one square sheet of back-coated Shikibu Gampi Shi; armature: wood, acrylic, nylon thread, magnets (Photo by Robert Bloomberg)
Dreamer
Giang Dinh, Vietnam/USA Designed 2010, folded 2014, watercolor paper (Photo by the artist)
Stars and Stripes,Opus 500
Robert J. Lang, USA, 2007 one uncut square of Wyndstone Marble paper (Photo by the artist)
White Elephant (artist and model)
Sipho Mabona, South Africa/Switzerland, 2014, paper (Photo by Philipp Schmidli)
Untitled (Seed)
Richard Sweeney, UK, 2011 watercolor paper, adhesive (Photo by the artist)
Cyclomatus metallifer, Opus 562
Robert J. Lang, USA 2010, one uncut square of Korean hanji paper (Photo by the artist)
Taichi
Giang Dinh, Vietnam/USA 2007, watercolor paper (Photo by the artist)
Duet
Paul Jackson, UK 2010–11, watercolor paper (Photo by the artist)
Wave (detail)
Yuko Nishimura, Japan 2013, paper (Photo by Yousuke Otomo)
Blue Coral
Vincent Floderer, France 2005, Japanese Tengujoshi paper (Photo by Romain Chevrier)
Cyrus
Joel Cooper, USA 2010, paper, metallic pigment, craquelure glaze, shellac (Photo by the artist)
Hedgehog
Beth Johnson, USA 2011, elephant hide paper (Photo by Dave Brenner)
CONTENTS
ERIK DEMAINE AND MARTIN DEMAINE
MICHAEL G. LAFOSSE AND RICHARD L. ALEXANDER
ORIGAMI CONNECTIONS
Photo by Miri Golan
No other art combines the severity of constraint with an extravagance of expression like origami. So just what, exactly, is origami? Narrowly defined, it is the folding of brightly colored squares of paper into simple birds, fish and flowers. Broadly defined, it is a sculptural art in which the primary means of creating the form is folding. I and my