Origami Camp Puyuan 2025: D’nA in PRC
During 2021, Pan Hang, a Chinese events organiser and origami enthusiast, asked me teach at a Chinese on-line convention held that summer, and of course I accepted. During that virtual event I enjoyed teaching and talking with Chinese folders. Later, Pan Hang hinted at the chance for me to visit China in the future… Pan […]
Noah’s Ark touches dry land…
In the early days of my origami history, I enjoyed putting together collections of models to make scenes: I assembled a Fox Hunt, a Lion family, and St George at the Dragon, as well as others less successful. During a spring clean of my archives, I’ve discovered a box labelled Noah’s Ark, which I’d almost […]
Bull’s Head from La Luna di Carta
I’ve recently completed a full rework of this design, which emerged during a memorable time spent in Italy in 1987. Exhausted after helping to organise the 20th anniversary BOS convention in London, I was sorely in need of a holiday, and the prospect of time with origami pals in Padua proved irresistible. Also present at […]
Pseudodeca
After a very long fallow period, a flurry of ideas yesterday and today resulted in this six unit construction, which looks at first glance like a dodecahedron. I was working on an old piece called “Irrico” (meaning Irregular Icosahedron), and I found that I could easily turn the units inside out to produce a new […]
David Brill