Nick Robinson's Blog, page 4
May 22, 2017
A book for the British Museum: Origami, Poems and Pictures
My latest book, written for the British Museum, is called Origami, Poems and Pictures and is available now from all quality book shops ;)
May 15, 2017
Das Trumpigami
My “Mexican Wall” has been published in the excellent magazine of Origami Deutschland, Der Falter #67.
I have a near complete set of these magazines, which were started by my old friend Paulo Mulatinho.
May 10, 2017
Leaf video
Always nice when someone makes a fine video of your work and asks beforehand – many thanks
Kuba Krajewski
April 20, 2017
more trumpigami
The latest tribute to the potus is now available for download and sharing. Here is the end result!
April 14, 2017
Easter Bunny
I don’t have much time for these ceremonies, but go on then, Happy Easter
April 10, 2017
Top of the Pops
Apparently, this blog has been rated the 16th best ori-blog in the world and I’m now entitled to display a badge of honour. I’ll be passing on this rare honour, being essentially an old curmudgeon.
March 28, 2017
Oh no you didn’t!
Just as I was getting over my dismay over Tuttle’s massively inappropriate re-branding of my “Intriguing Origami” book as “Beginning Origami Kit”, I somehow ended up perusing their official web page for the project, also referred to there as “Beginner Origami Kit“. Here I learn that you can create:
“fun and adorable origami projects in a few minutes in this easy origami kit!”
Adorable? Few minutes? These are models aimed at serious folders and some are relatively challenging.
A tiny reptilian dinosaur that is actually cute!
Hey – a reptilian dinosaur!
Two charming Snails in Love who snuggle
Snuggle? They are getting down and dirty!
and much more!
This ubiquitous phrase is surely past it’s sell-by date…
Tuttle are to be congratulated for producing some magnificent origami books, but clearly, when push comes to shove, the marketing people have the deciding vote and sad to say they clearly have no clue about the actual contents of an origami book (to be fair, they are not alone in this).
I did my best to retain the original title but to no avail. I’m sorry to bite the hand that feeds me and I realise these are “just products”, but my cat Pickle (seen right admiring a Lang design) told my I had to let off steam. Just call me Ed Reardon…..
March 23, 2017
Caterpillar
A design of mine for my forthcoming “Butterfly Origami” book. Nothing revolutionary, but it seems to capture the “squidginess” of the real thing…
March 17, 2017
Solveig’s song
Solveig Greig has published some nice posts about my books ;)
https://multiplie.noblogs.org/post/2017/03/16/more-models-by-nick-robinson/
March 15, 2017
Butterfly photos
I’ve been taking photos of the models for my forthcoming “Butterfly Origami” book. I’m delighted to say that Michael LaFosse has contributed both an article on the development of the subject in origami, and a brand new design. It also features a Yoshizawa butterfly, approved by his estate ;) #butterflygami
