Shuzo fujimoto biography examples
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This one is a straight re-post of my favourite folded star. These make lovely solo decorations, or they can be strung together into garlands. Warning: I found folding these to be a bit addictive. The final tuck, when everything snaps into place producing a tiny star in the middle, is extremely satisfying!
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The folding pattern for this origami star was designed by Shuzo Fujimoto in the s, but I only discovered it a few years ago after finding an image on Pinterest.
I saved the image to my collection of stars and promptly forgot about it.
I was reminded of it again recently when Paula Beardell Kreig wrote a blog post about discovering an instruction video for the stars. Paula got quite excited about the first part of the video which shows how to create a pentagon from a square —it is pretty clever— and did her own set of drawings for the steps.
She even drew a map of the fold pattern. If you are the kind of person who does origami from fold patterns, you can download a pdf of her map here, or go to her post to get it. If, like me, you prefer to work from step-by-step instructions, you can find them on the site where I first found the image: Homemade Gifts Made Easy. The post includes the video that Paula discovered.
I made the three stars shown at the beginning
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Shuzo Fujimoto — First Origami Engineer?
Twenty twenty-two marks the th anniversary of Shuzo Fujimoto’s birth. This Japanese creator had a huge impact upon the development of geometric origami, and yet surprisingly little has been known about his life and work.
I became aware of Shuzo Fujimoto in , when, while attending my first origami convention, I developed an interest in tessellations. His Clover Folding and Hydrangea were among the earliest tessellations I folded. Fujimoto died that year, and this sad news certainly contributed to more online mention of his work. Shortly thereafter, when I started designing my own tessellations, I was made aware of the fact that some of my models, such as Stars and Squares, had actually been designed by Fujimoto decades earlier.
Interestingly, while both the physical origami exhibitions at conventions and the image collections on the internet were full of Hydrangea and Clover Folding variants, very few other models designed by Fujimoto were to be seen. I’m not sure I would have been able to name even a dozen of his designs at that time. Fujimoto was widely considered importa
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Model: origami Bunting / Knowledge / Flower
Design: Shuzo Fujimoto
Diagrams in description book "Origami Project F - Interweave Folds" unused Shuzo Fujimoto.