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"Enthralled with origami from a young age, master designer Michael LaFosse has used those skills to design and perfect paper airplanes for decades. In Planes for Brains, LaFosse presents 28 original models that incorporate innovative functional and aesthetic details--like faceted flaps, ailerons, canards and spoilers that really work. The sense of proportion and balance, and an ingenious nose and fuselage locking system, define these signature models,...
2) More-igami
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Joey loves things that fold: maps, bed, accordions, you name it. When a classmate's mother turns a plain piece of paper into a beautiful origami crane, his eyes pop. Maybe he can learn origami, too. But it's going to take practice - on his homework, the newspaper, the thirty-eight dollars in his mother's purse . . Enough! No more folding! How can Joey become an origami master if he can't practice? Happily, he finds a way - and perhaps a chance to...
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They float! They fly! They zoom! They spin! They even land on their feet! Origami Rockets: Spinners, Zoomers, Floaters, and More presents how to create inflatable paper folding projects that actually take flight. From a few basic designs, this how to do orgami book offers more than fifty unique paper toy rocket creations including:
-Sweptwing rockets
-Landers
-Gliders
-Shortnosed spinner
-And even a lunar lander
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"Fold an ocean full of sea stars, whales, turtles, and more! Simple instructions and step-by-step images make origami easy while fun facts throughout share more information about the real-life versions of your fancy folded friends. Additional materials explore even more about ocean biomes. Fold your way to fun with a world of origami"--
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This covetable collection of perfectly mindful origami includes 25 inventive paper projects for all signs of the zodiac, both eastern and western. From an elegant dragon and a complex scorpion to a stylised monkey and a classic rooster, each project is superbly designed and clearly explained with fully illustrated step-by-step instructions. Also included are 30 sheets of origami paper to get you started on a relaxing and creative activity for your...
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Make your own origami jewelry! In this new paper craft book from world renowned origami artists, Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander, you'll be delighted to discover how quick, fun and inexpensive it is to make durable DIY jewelry that you'll actually be able to wear! LaFosse & Alexander's Origami Jewelry will show you how to create 3D designs to go with your hair, skin, and wardrobe by customizing the components to your own personal fashion....
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Pop, fold and fly sturdy paper airplanes with this easy origami eBook. Origami author Andrew Dewar rediscovered his childhood love of paper airplanes in Japan working with Yasuaki Ninomiya (creator of the famous White Wings planes). His designs are incredibly easy to assemble and his book not only explains how to make the origami planes, but how to tune them for better performance. He also gives tips on designing your own paper airplane models. All...
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Forget the giftwrap-these unique boxes are perfect for gift-giving. In fact, they're handmade gifts all by themselves! Choose your own paper, and make a keepsake treasure-or make dozens! Step-by-step diagrams make it easy to create a work of art. A well-known British origami expert, Rick Beech is the author of several books. These unusual and imaginative designs appeal to paperfolders at every level of experience. This book features fifteen different...
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Award winning artists show how to fold their most remarkable creations in Extraordinary Origami. This book features 20 outstanding showpieces from contemporary American Grand Masters, including Neal Elias, Peter Engel, Michael LaFosse, Robert J. Lang, Jeremy Shafer, and more. Intermediate and advanced origami practitioners will discover how to create impressive paper folding sculptures ranging from frogs, bees, butterflies, and blackbirds to a giant...
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Fold stunning geometric sculptures. From the Origamido Studio and word renowned origami artists Michael G. LaFosse and Richard H. Alexander, comes the paper craft eBook Modular Origami Paper Pack. In this modern form of amazing 3D origami design, modular origami is the art and technique of folding multiple sheets of paper and then combining and interlocking them to create a larger composite geometric model the results are truly astounding!
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Explore the link between paperfolding and mathematics with this unique, well-illustrated guide to creating a world of multifaceted wonders that draws on elements of crystallography. Photographs, diagrams, and charts show how to apply mathematical principles to the origami waterbomb base to create geodesic forms. Detailed instructions, clear diagrams.
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This collection teaches you how to fold 37 original origami stars, each from a single square sheet of paper. Great care has been, taken to keep each folding sequence elegant. The models are amazing and striking, are enjoyable to fold, and can be used as awards and decorations, and on festive, occasions.
This second edition is in full color. Several stars use both sides of the paper to highlight interesting color patterns. Duo origami paper, which...
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Fun and Simple Origami teaches you how to fold a large collection of easy models. This edition in full color adds life to this amazing art. Many models are traditional and a few are, created by John Montroll. Clear step-by-step instructions show how to fold 101 models in chapters of birds, fish, animals, boats, boxes, hats, and more. Models include a Flying Bird, Chinese Fishing Boat, Pagoda, Fancy Box, Kimonos, King's Crown, and many other favorites.
Each...
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"One man's trash is another man's treasure" was never truer! With this remarkable book, you can recycle throwaways into origami art. Twenty-nine well-illustrated projects explain how to make an autumn leaf from a lotto ticket, a 3-D heart from aluminum foil, a flower from a tea bag wrapper, and other unusual keepsakes and charming gifts. Each item includes a brief introduction with suggestions for the paper's color and texture, and every step of...
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With its host of haunting creatures, this festive compilation of original models will add spice to any paperfolder's holiday. More than twenty projects, illustrated with photos and two-color diagrams, range from easy to fiendishly challenging. Fold a couple of black cats for your Halloween decorations, and make company for them in the forms of a bat, ghost, and vampire. You'll find witches galore among these figures, as well as a cauldron and a tombstone,...
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Delightful treasury of unusual and inventive projects created by talented Argentinian magician and gifted origamist. Easy-to-follow instructions, specially designed for newcomers to the art of origami, show how to construct a camel, rooster, jaguar, and butterfly as well as such unusual figures as a bullfighter, magician, and many other intriguing subjects.
20) Modern Origami
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Clear instructions, diagrams, drawings, and photographs help you complete over 60 fascinating projects - from the relatively simple four-point star, water lily, and sitting crane to the more complex ballet dancer, Egyptian cat, and dachshund. Challenging subjects for intermediate and advanced paperfolders. Over 500 black-and-white illustrations. New Preface by author.