Origami - Booklist of Matthias Gutfeldt in Berne, Switzerland

Index

General

Author: Kunihiko Kasahara
Title: Creative Origami
ISBN: 0-87040-411-3
Publisher:
Example: Astronaut and Rocket
Comments: My first book by Kasahara, and he even autographed it for me! I bought it at the 9. OD- Convention in Würzburg, where Kasahara was an invited speaker (teacher? folder?), and it was very exciting to meet the author in person, and learn some models that weren't published anywhere.
The book contains a good range of simple to moderately complex designs, from traditional swans to his Mask of Pan. There is also an interesting article about his approach to creating origami models.

Author: Kunihiko Kasahara
Title: Origami Omnibus
ISBN: 4-8170-9001-4
Publisher:
Example: Cubeoctahedron
Comments: LOTS of models! A must-have, esp. since it has been republished just recently.

Author: Peter Engel
Title: Origami from Angelfish to Zen
ISBN: 0-486-28138-8
Publisher:
Example: Hummingbird
Comments: Yet another must-have. It's the only Origami book Peter Engel has ever written. It contains a very interesting overview of the history of origami, and characterizations of important creators like Akira Yoshizawa and Saburo Kase. Peter Engel also explores the connections between origami and a number of arts and sciences. The designs in this book are quite complex, but still manageable.

Author: Paulo Mulatinho
Title: Spiel und Spass mit Origami
ISBN: 3-419-53526-0
Publisher: Christophorus Verlag, 1993
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Comments: My second origami book, and still one of my favourites. It contains simple action models like the talking crow by Makoto Yemaguchi and the rude devil by Nick Robinson

Author: Paulo Mulatinho
Title: Pfiffiges Origami
ISBN: 3-8043-0368-4
Publisher: Augustus Verlag, 1993
Example: Modular Cube (A4-Paper) by Tomoko Fuse
Comments: My third origami book (I lost track of the numbers shortly after...). Very clear diagrams, beautifully presented models. I bought it in November 1996, and since it contains a few christmas models, you can imagine what our tree looked like. Also introduced me to modular origami.

Author: Paulo Mulatinho
Title: Origami Neue Ideen
ISBN: 3-8043-0411-7
Publisher: Augustus Verlag, 1998
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Comments: So far the last book by Paulo, it contains another great collection of nicely presented, easy to fold models.

Author: Everdien Tiggelaar
Title: Origami Die Kunst des Faltens
ISBN: 3-7724-1199-1
Publisher: frech verlag, 1988
Example:
Comments: My very first origami book. I bought it because it had a crane in it, and I thought since this is a bird, it would fly well.

Author: Keiji Kitamura
Title: Die Origami- Schatztruhe
ISBN: 3-7724-1551-2
Publisher: frech verlag, 1992
Example:
Comments: This very colourful book contains many traditional models such as the starbox, frog, helmet, hina dolls, etc., and some original designs.

Author: Pham Dinh Tuyen
Title: Klassisches Origami
ISBN: 3-8068-1454-6
Publisher: Falken Verlag, 1994
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Comments: The first German book by Pham Dinh Tuyen contains original designs, sorted by starting base. The models are in a very distinct, geometric style, and sometimes difficult to fold.

Author: Pham Dinh Tuyen
Title: Origami Neue Figuren für Fortgeschrittene
ISBN: 3-8068-1685-9
Publisher: Falken Verlag, 1996
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Comments: The second German book by Pham Dinh Tuyen, with more original desings, and most of them intermediate to complex. I bought this book still in my first months of origami, and some models were just too difficult for me. Since the models have a very strict, precise geometry, accurate folding is very important. The clear diagrams, concise and logical folding sequences, and the usually quite pleasing results definitely helped my folding skills.

Author: John Montroll
Title: Origami Sculptures
ISBN: 0-486-26587-0
Publisher: Dover Publications, 1991 (second edition) Example:
Comments: The usual Montroll quality diagrams, a range of excellent models, and an introduction to basic folds. There's also a brief history of origami.

Author: John Montroll
Title: Mythological Creatures and the Chinese Zodiac in Origami
ISBN: 1-877656-11-9
Publisher: Antroll Publishing, 1996
Example:
Comments: My very first Montroll book, bought at my very first Origami Deutschland Convention in Würzburg in June 1997. It's one of those books I keep coming back to.

Author: John Montroll
Title: Teach Yourself Origami
ISBN: 0-486-40141-3
Publisher: Dover Publications, 1998
Example:
Comments: I bought this book for one of my origami classes. It has a range of traditional and original models, all clearly diagrammed as usual, and with some nice little anecdotes.

Author: Robert J. Lang
Title: Origami Insects and Their Kin
ISBN: 0-486-28602-9
Publisher: Dover Publications, 1995
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Comments: Just like the Montroll book above, I bought this in 1997 at my first Origami Deutschland Convention. What was I thinking? This was way out of my league. I got so frustrated that I've never tried to fold another one of these critters.

Author: Robert J. Lang
Title: Origami Animals
ISBN: 0-517-07320-X
Publisher: Crescent Books, 1992
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Comments: A gift by the Master himself, I received this book in June 1999, when Robert was in Switzerland for a TV interview which appeared on Swiss TV (the video is part of a series about paper and can be ordered at NZZ online). It contains a range of comparatively easy models, from the American meadow to the African savanne. What's more, it has a great introduction to origami symbols, terms, and folding techniques.

Author: Robert J. Lang
Title: Origami in Action - Paper toys that fly, flap, gobble, and inflate!
ISBN: 0-312-15618-9
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 1997
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Comments: A range of simple to complex action models. Not for the faint of heart!

Author: David Brill
Title: Brilliant Origami
ISBN: 0-87040-896-8
Publisher: Japan Publications, 1996
Example:
Comments: With some beautiful color pictures, and b/w pictures of every finished model, this book shows a great variety of designs, from modular origami to wet-folded animals.

Author: Tomoko Fuse
Title: Origami
ISBN: 3-280-02002-6
Publisher: Orell Füssli Verlag, 1990
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Comments: This book by Tomoko Fuse contains many beautiful modular boxes.

Author: Tomoko Fuse
Title: The Mask
ISBN:
Publisher: Origami House, 1997
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Comments: A range of intermediate to complex masks. Very scary! Some images of the masks, folded by Evelyne Cavalière from Geneva, are here.

Author: René Lucio, Ursel Geisler, Jan Spütz
Title: Verzaubertes Papier
ISBN: 3-7698-1034-1
Publisher: Don Bosco Verlag, 1997
Example:
Comments: One of my airplanes won this book as a prize at an Origami München airplane contest in June, 1997. I wasn't there myself; I had taught this plane to a lady I had met at the Origami Deutschland Convention just a week earlier, and obviously she knew how to throw it.
Oh, you wanted to know what's in the book? Mostly cute finger puppets of witches, princesses, faeries and sorcerors. Just the kind of origami that kids love.

Author: René Lucio, Jan Spütz
Title: Das grosse Origamibuch
ISBN: 3-473-42567-2
Publisher: Ravensburger Buchverlag, 1997
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Comments: This is a very nice book by two leading people of Origami München. It contains a brief history of Origami, a nice overview about different kinds of origami, and a nice range of both traditional and original designs. Unfortunately quite a few designs that are clearly not by the authors don't have any attributions. But otherwise it's a very interesting and beautiful book.

Author: Zülal Aytüre- Scheele
Title: Origami Papierfalten für gross und klein
ISBN: 3-8094-0657-0
Publisher: bassermann, 1998
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Comments: Yet another book with no author attributions. Aytüre- Scheele is notorious for not giving credit; there are monkeys and the Mask of Pan (here called devil's mask) by Kunihiko Kasahara, a large range of traditional models, and a few that might be her own creations. The models are shown as photos instead of diagrams, with diagramming symbols added later. All finished models are shown in colour photos, too.

Author: Thoki Yenn
Title: 13 Thoki Yenn Orikata
ISBN: none
Publisher: Thok85
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Comments: This wonderful booklet contains a few very exciting geometric and modular designs; my favourite is the silver rectangle pyramid. The diagrams are drawn in the well-known, typical Thoki Yenn style, with Kalmon explaining some of the finer points. On the very last page, you learn how to cube our money!

Airplanes

Author: Gilbert Obermair
Title: Die schönsten Papierflieger
ISBN: 3-8118-5858-0
Publisher: Neff, 1994
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Comment: This book started it all! In 1996, I was folding airplanes for my daughter Lea (cough, cough), and my wife bought this little book for me. It has a short introduction into aerodynamics for paper airplanes, history, and some very nice but simple airplanes.

Author: Nick Robinson
Title: Papierflieger die wirklich fliegen
ISBN: 3-8043-0277-7
Publisher: Augustus Verlag, 1994
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Comment: The German translation of the 1991 "Paper Airplanes" (Quintet Publishing) has an awesome range of airplanes by creators such as John Smith, Kunihiko Karahara, Didier Boursin, and of course Nick Robinson himself. My second airplane book, and still one of my favourites. It inspired me to create my own designs.

Author: Eiji Nakamura
Title: Flying Origami
ISBN: 0-87040-023-1
Publisher: Japan Publications, 1972 (sixteenth printing in 1990)
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Comment: In this book Nakamura explores all the possibilities of an A4-ratio paper. With minimal cutting and glue, he creates the craziest flying things.

Author: Ken Blackburn, Jeff Lammers
Title: Papierflieger für Kids
ISBN: 3-8290-2766-4
Publisher: Könemann, 1999
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Comment: This colourful book by Blackburn is geared towards the younger folder; among others, it contains his World Record Airplane. At the end of the book are colourful prints, with the diagrams printed on them, for easy folding.

Author: Jack Botermans
Title: Flieger aus Papier
ISBN: 3-88034-188-5
Publisher: Hugendubel, 1996 (ninth printing)
Example:
Comment: A nice collection of folding-only and cut-and-paste airplanes.

Convention books

Every self-respecting Origami Convention publishes a Convention book, with diagrams of designs created by its attendants. It's usually a wild mix of every variety and level of complexity, and some of these books are sought after because they contain diagrams for well known, yet often previously unpublished models. Below is my small collection, mainly consisting of Origami Deutschland Convention books.

Author: John Smith (Editor)
Title: COET '91 Conference of Origami in Education and Therapy
ISBN: none
Publisher: British Origami Society, 1992
Example:
Comments: The Proceedings of the COET '91 aren't really a book with origami designs, but rather a book about origami itself. It contains many interesting articles, e.g. by Gay Merrill Gross, John Smith, Florence Temko, Saburo Kase to name just a few.

Author: authors
Title: Origami Tanteidan 1st Convention
ISBN: none
Publisher: Origami Tanteidan, 1995
Example: Winged Demon by Jun Maekawa
Comments: I bought this convention book at the Origami Deutschland Convention in W¨rzburg, 1998. Without the help of Sebastian Kirsch I would never have finished that demon. The book contains quite a few rather complex models (plus a few simpler ones), and the fact that I can't read Japanese doesn't help.

Author: Steffi Gratzl, Lilo Thalhammer (Editors)
Title: Tagungsband 9. Internationales Treffen von Origami Deutschland in Würzburg
ISBN: none
Publisher: Origami Deutschland, 1997
Example:
Comments: It was my very first OD Convention, and seeing so many origami diagrams in one book almost made me dizzy. The book contains 51 models by a large number of authors, among them Herman van Gouberghen (Reading the Paper), Edwin Corrie (Alsatian), Vincente Palacios (Cofre), and many others. It also contains 17 models by Klaus-Dieter Ennen, probably the most productive German creator.

Author: Thoki Yenn, Heinz Strobl, Diane Strobl, Paulo Mulatinho, Andrea Thanner, Raphaella Mulatinho (Editors)
Title: Tagungsband 10. Internationales Treffen von Origami Deutschland in Freising
ISBN: none
Publisher: Origami Deutschland, 1998
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Comments: Some 52 models, again by an international authorship, among them Thoki Yenn with his Silver Rectangle Pyramid, John Montroll with the Coyote (now also published in his latest book), Helmut Gembitzki with two of his growing collection of stars, and many others.

Author: various (no editors mentioned)
Title: Tagungsband 11. Internationales Treffen von Origami Deutschland in Hildesheim
ISBN: none
Publisher: Origami Deutschland, 1999
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Comments: With again more than 50 models, this book is yet another great collection of many previously unpublished designs .

Not quite origami

Like many other origami enthusiast, I also like other paper crafts and arts, be it kirigami, paper mâche modeling, pop-ups, etc. Therefore I also include some paper craft books I have in my collection.

Author: Clive Stevens
Title: Kreatives Basteln mit Papier
ISBN: 3-8290-0329-3
Publisher: Könemann, 1998
Example:
Comments: This is the German version of the 1996 "Papercraft school", published by Quarto. It has an introduction into paper and paper arts, and gives an overview of many paper arts such as origami, paper sculptures, pop-ups, collages, and even papermaking. Of course it doesn't cover any of these subjects in any depth, so it serves mainly as an inspiration for your own experiments.

Author: Ramin Razani
Title: Phantastische Papierarbeiten
ISBN: 3-8043-0236-X
Publisher: Augustus Verlag, 1993
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Comments: Originally published in French, this is a German translation of Razani's wonderful book about origami architecture / pop-ups / folding cards / whatever-you-want-to-call-it. It takes a very sharp knife and a good eye to create these geometric pop-ups.

Author: Paul Jackson
Title: Pop-up
ISBN: 3-7667-1199-7
Publisher: Callwey
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Comments: A jack-of-all-paper-crafts, Paul Jackson has delivered a wonderful book about pop-ups. It explains all the techniques necessary to create your own, from geometric folds like Razani, to cartoon-like creatures, and detailled bulldozers.