Nick Robinson's Blog, page 14
January 10, 2016
Mindfullnessigami
Interesting article in the Telegraph recently, written by Laura Freeman – she rang me up and we spoke for some time about how origami seems to be “on trend” at the moment.
January 6, 2016
New projects
I’m working on two books devoted to “flexagons” and “containers” – if you have an original design you’d like considering, please send me images.
Below a flexagon (or more correctly, a “flipper”?) I’ve discovered, please let me know if you’ve seen it before?
December 13, 2015
Lanesfield School December 2015
John Farrell has been doing amazing work for the past few years with his students at Lanesfield School in Wolverhampton. He has started an origami club and the work they are producing is amazing! I ran some classes for them recently. He writes:
I invited Nick Robinson down to our school to do some folding with the children. The book he donated to the class is very popular – one child takes it home for a night, then another the next day and so on. Baljit – my little expert with her own display area, was the first one to take it and she came in the next day with 3 models from the book. Another of the girls in my lunchtime group told me on Tuesday that she was only asking her parents for origami related things for Christmas. Another of the girls came in on Friday last with 3 Jackson cubes that she had made at home. Finally, I followed up on Nick’s suggestion about contacting Maria Sinayskaya and she replied! She said she was delighted to hear what we were doing with her star, and she sent me a diagram for another of her stars for the children to fold.
December 1, 2015
Fishy bizness
Somewhat crazily, I’m obliged to make & photograph examples of all designs from a published book, because a US publisher feels the paper should match the free patterned paper. However, I’m a professional and it’s also an opportunity to focus on pattern as well as form. Here’s a shot of my 60 degree geometry Flexi Fish Form, so named by Robert Neale, who has produced a story sequence for it ;)
November 26, 2015
When you wish upon a (Death) Star
Working on ideas for a possible Star Wars origami book – if you have any elegant designs (multi-piece OK) that havenot been commercially published, please get in touch. For the main characters, I need full body figures, not just masks…
November 23, 2015
Idiots Guide – geometric origami
The contributors copies of this book have gone out. Francesco Guarnieri wrote: “I received today, my copy of the book, Thanks Nick!“
Delighted to present your beautiful work to the world Francesco!
November 17, 2015
Historical paper planes
Nathalie Mornu told me about a fascinating article on old paper planes, appropriate since I’m working on the final stages of the Idiots Guide to Paper Planes (keep your jokes to yourself please)
http://www.newyorker.com/project/portfolio/the-paper-airplane-collector
Here’s a project that I couldn’t sell to anyone ;)
November 10, 2015
November 4, 2015
Focal Plane
just finished the photography for my forthcoming book “Idiots Guide to Paper Planes. Curious how I’ve been singled out to write both Dummies and Idiots guides ;)
