An origamist or an origamian is a person who is associated with the art of origami. Some notable origamists / origamians are:
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- Jay Ansill – composer and folk musician who also wrote The Origami Sourcebook
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- Martin Demaine and Erik Demaine – father-and-son team who manipulate flat paper into swirling forms.[1]
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- Peter Engel – author of several origami books including Origami from Angelfish to Zen, 10-Fold Origami: Fabulous Paperfolds You Can Make in Just 10 Steps!, and Origami Odyssey
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- Tomoko Fuse (布施 知子) – famous for boxes and unit origami[2]
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- Ilan Garibi – Israeli origami artist and designer
- Alice Gray – co-founder of the non-profit Friends of the Origami Center in New York
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- Robert Harbin – popularised origami in Britain; also presented a series of short programmes entitled Origami, made by Thames Television for ITV
- Jacob Hashimoto – created a large-scale paper mobile at Mary Boone Gallery[3]
- David A. Huffman – American electrical engineer[2]
- Tom Hull – American mathematics professor[2]
- Humiaki Huzita – formulated the first six of the Huzita–Hatori axioms
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- Eric Joisel – French wet-folder renowned for his lifelike masks, including those of fellow origami enthusiasts[2]
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- Satoshi Kamiya – one of the youngest geniuses of the origami field (born 1981)[2]
- Kunihiko Kasahara – devised a standardized method for creating many modular polyhedra
- Toshikazu Kawasaki – Japanese mathematician famous for his Iso-area folding theory and his many geometric folds, including Kawasaki's "Rose"
- Marc Kirschenbaum – known for his instrumentalist designs
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- Robert J. Lang – author of many Origami books including the new benchmark Origami Design Secrets; formerly a laser physicist at NASA before quitting in 2001 and committing to origami full-time[1][3][4][2][5]
- David Lister – founding member of the British Origami Society
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- Sipho Mabona – Swiss and South African origami master[1][6] who created a life-size elephant from a single piece of paper.[3]
- Jun Maekawa – software engineer, mathematician, and origami artist known for popularizing the method of utilizing crease patterns in designing origami models
- Matthew T. Mason – American roboticist who developed the first origami folding robot, demonstrating advances in difficult manipulation tasks
- Ligia Montoya – Argentine paper-folder who played a crucial role in establishing paper-folding as an international movement
- John Montroll – probably the most prolific Western artist and author of over 40 books on origami
- Jeannine Mosley – best known for her origami models created from business cards,[7] including the Menger Sponge.[1] She has developed mathematical techniques for designing and analyzing curved origami models.[7]
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- Lillian Rose Vorhaus Kruskal Oppenheimer – American origami pioneer whose birthday (October 24) is one of the World Origami Days. [8]
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- Samuel Randlett – helped design and popularize the Yoshizawa-Randlett diagramming system
- Nick Robinson – professional origami artist and author of over one hundred books on origami
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- James Sakoda – author of Modern Origami
- Jeremy Shafer – professional entertainer and origamist based in Berkeley, California
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- Florence Temko – pioneer in spreading origami in the United States
- Norio Torimoto – Japanese origami artist based in Sweden since the 1970s
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- Kōshō Uchiyama – Sōtō priest, origami master, and abbot of Antai-ji near Kyoto, Japan, and author of more than twenty books on Zen Buddhism and origami
- Miguel de Unamuno – Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher who devised many new models and popularized origami in Spain and South America.
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- Makoto Yamaguchi – Chairperson of Origami House[2]
- Akira Yoshizawa – reinvented modern origami and created the modern repertoire of folding symbols[2]
References
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- 1 2 3 4 "11 Cutting-Edge Origami Artists Who Are Masters of Paper Folding". My Modern Met. 2017-04-05. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "artists | Folding Paper | Japanese American National Museum". www.janm.org. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
- 1 2 3 Callahan, Sophia (2014-10-16). "8 Artists Pushing Origami To The Extreme". Vice. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
- ↑ "An Origami Artist Shows How to Fold Ultra-Realistic Creatures". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
- ↑ TASON. "Robert J. Lang Origami". Robert J. Lang Origami. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
- ↑ "www.mabonaorigami.com: startseite". www.mabonaorigami.com. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
- 1 2 "Math Unfolded: A series of presentations on the mathematics of origami – National Museum of Mathematics". Retrieved 2020-03-27.
- ↑ "World Origami Days". Origami USA | World Origami Days. 2012-02-01. Retrieved 2020-12-11.
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