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Origami Book

June 21st, 2008 by admin

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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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One Response

  1. Friday Night Videos: Origami Book Winner Catherine Cheek–and Eoin Colfer Under the Bright Lights Says:
    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. […]

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