The best presents are always those items you've had your eye on for a while but haven’t bought because you thought they were a tad self indulgent. So I was given Paul Jackson's Folding Techniques for Designers (Laurence King Publishers).
There’s a chapter on origami in my book The Gecko's Foot. That is origami as used in technical devices from space arrays to architecture, and also in nature. Paul Jackson’s book is a manual of the principles that allow you to create structures from paper that fold up in remarkable ways. The best knowing examples are lampshades, but readily deployable buildings can be made by the same processes.
In the past, I’ve made leaf-oris and Miura-ori maps but never the more complex patterns. A new challenge for the New Year.
There’s a chapter on origami in my book The Gecko's Foot. That is origami as used in technical devices from space arrays to architecture, and also in nature. Paul Jackson’s book is a manual of the principles that allow you to create structures from paper that fold up in remarkable ways. The best knowing examples are lampshades, but readily deployable buildings can be made by the same processes.
In the past, I’ve made leaf-oris and Miura-ori maps but never the more complex patterns. A new challenge for the New Year.
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