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Picture of the
month September:


Joan Sallas
preparing his
exhibition

"Folded Beauty"


for exhibition info
look just below

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Serviettenausstellung Wien 2010

Folded Beauty - Masterworks of Serviette Folding
Exhibition by Joan Sallas
8th Sept. 2010 - 23th Jan. 2011
Hofmobiliendepot - Möbel Museum Wien (Vienna)
http://www.hofmobiliendepot.at
Invitation-Flyer

   
Eurogami-Buch

Eurogami
Geldgeschenke
by Andreas Bauer
Christophorus-Verlag - ISBN 978-3838832227
Description (pdf)

   
book by Langnickel

Origami-Story-Craft-Book
"Der Tintenfisch" - Witzige Meeresbewohner aus Papier falten
by Bianka Langnickel + Monika Ehrhardt-Lakomy
Description (pdf - in German)

   

German Origami Convention 2010
is over...
Photos here

   

Origami Deutschland e.V. at the trade fair KREATIV- & BASTELWELT 2010
18 - 21 November 2010 in Stuttgart (Germany)
Origami Deutschland will be self-displayed with a booth
at the KREATIV- & BASTELWELT trade fair in Stuttgart.

   

Exhibition: Falten - Flechten - Prickeln
Paper works after Friedrich Fröbel
30. Mai - 29. Aug. 2010
LVR-Industriemuseum, Schauplatz Bergisch Gladbach, Alte Dombach, Bergisch Gladbach
http://www.industriemuseum.lvr.de
Exhibition-Flyer
Article from Newspaper
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Exhibition - Cartoons and Origami
"Titelblätter & Blütenblätter"
Jens-Helge Dahmen
6 June - 25 July 2010
Galerie Café Bachmann (near of the "Gärten der Welt" in Berlin-Marzahn
http://www.galerie-cafe-bachmann.de
Invitation (pdf) to the opening, 6th of June, 11:00 h

   

Origami-Geschichten
The new origami book by Klaus-Dieter Ennen + Carola Munzert.
Published by epubli - ISBN 978-3-86931-3-470-9
Publisher: http://www.epubli.de
New: Content and book review by Heide Karst

   

Origami Deutschland e.V. at the CREATIVA 2010 trade fair
17 - 21 March 2010 in Dortmund (Germany)
Origami Deutschland has been self-displayed with a booth
at the CREATIVA trade fair in Dortmund.
See photos here

   

Origami Kinderspiele
First origami book by Gabriele Blobelt.
Published by Q-Verlag Berlin - ISBN 978-3-938127-12-4
http://www.q-verlag-berlin.de

   

Calendar "Pentagon" - English Version 2011
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Diagram: Matthias Eichel, Stefan Delecat
Download: Large english version (pdf) - smaller english version (pdf)

   
 

Society for the Promotion of Paperfolding, Inc.

Ori - Gami Sign

 Origami is the art of paperfolding. Two skilful hands and a little practice are all you need to make artistically folded objects from a simple sheet of paper: objects decorative, practical and/or imaginative. Scissors and glue are generally taboo. Some models, formed by only a few folds, live on minimalism; others achieve brilliance through their wealth of details formed by the many, many, frequently highly difficult folds.

 Origami (ori = folding, kami = paper), a term for a traditional Japanese art, has developed above all since the middle of the 20th century into an art form of many facets with interdisciplinary potentials. Used as a teaching aid already by the founder of the kindergarten, Friedrich Fröbel (1782-1852), it is today not only a means of recreation and artistic expression but also a helper for science and technology. In his article "The History of Paperfolding - A German Perspective" (pdf-file) David Lister gives a historical survey of origami in German speaking countries.

Miura Fold

 Origami helps to illustrate geometrical facts in mathematics, mineralogy and architecture. It is able to answer questions in chemistry and biology: How do leaves and blossoms unfold from buds?. On which structures do macromolecules base? Meanwhile, road maps, air bags in cars or solar panels of satellites are folded according to clever crease patterns found with origami. Origami even has therapeutic uses, for instance after an operation on the hand.

Origami Devil

 To experience paperfolding in an origami society is to be astounded by phantastic paper models, to win new friends, to immerse oneself in an unknown world which seems to have no limits. Numerous national and international meetings offer you fun and the opportunity to exchange ideas. The authors of origami models show you their newest creations conceived in many sleepless nights. Under the guidance of experts or with the help of detailed diagrams in origami books, convention booklets or the internet models are presented and copyfolded.

 Origami Deutschland offers its members a regularly published society magazine "der falter" and an annual convention in Germany with participants from all over the world. In addition, there are local meetings of smaller groups of origami enthusiasts throughout the year. This homepage will point to the activities of the society and also report on international origami meetings, exhibitions etc, but especially those in the German speaking countries.

Stefan Delecat