Origami Book
I made this for a contest posted on one of Jeff Vandermeer’s blogs. The contest instructions included a youtube video about how to make this. I had to fold it five or six times before I got the hang of it.
Each page has a sketch of a crow on it, and the cover says “Crow” in gold ink. The sheet of paper I used was six inches square, and the finished book is just over 1 1/4″ tall.
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June 27th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
[...] First, the origami. Last week, we ran a video on how to make an origami book, along with a contest. The winner would get the coolest tiny book in my house. Turns out it’s harder to make one of these things than you’d think. But we do have a winner: Catherine Cheek. Cheek is what you’d call multi-creative, as evidenced by the other cool stuff on her website. She’s also recently signed on with Kate Schaefer Testerman to represent her on her cool novel Alternate Susan–and she has short fiction forthcoming in several anthologies and magazines. Here’s her origami book, with more photos on her site. [...]
January 25th, 2009 at 1:40 am
nice!!!
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:47 am
cool except.. can you tell us how to make it and is it hard?
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:32 am
I remember it was hard. I had to try two or three times before I got a useable one.
This was a contest posted on http://www.jeffvandermeer.com and on omnivoracious to make an origami book and post pictures of it in the comments. Jeff announced that I won in June 2008, but I can’t find the original link that showed us how to make it.
Here’s a video, that I think may have been the one I used. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXLhjYgMZ68