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New Year Baby

New Year Baby
(Origami Toddler Pop-up Card)
Designed by Jeremy Shafer
Folded by Michael Sanders
10" x 10" kami

Shafer's Bat Pop-Up Card

From Origami Pop-Ups to Amaze and Amuse:

Baby Pop-up Card

Japanese Paper Engineering

Description:

These three Japanese greeting cards date from the 1980s, and they are all the work of Masahiro Chatani. He was a Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and he is considered to be one of the founders if not the founder of a technique called Origamic Architecture.

The designs sometimes show architectural forms, or they can also demonstrate geometric patterns.

Initially he just gave his cards away to friends and family. But he went on to write over 50 books on the subject, and he felt that these designs helped people appreciate the complexity of three dimensional designs, and also inspire an interest in mathematics and art in young people.

Professor Masahiro Chatani died in 2008.

Magic Wallet Card

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”

-Marcel Proust

I've been looking at a bunch of arts & crafts card-making videos as of late (somehow I ended up here, when my trail began with pop-up polyhedra; which led me to flexagons; which led me back to pop-up and creative business cards; which led me to pop-up cards; and then on to cascading waterfall cards, sliding cards, flip cards, etc., etc.) I feel like such a girl and a geek right now.

Anyway, this cool card reminds me a lot of Yami's magic wallet:


Not the first time I've seen stuff like this; but I'm looking at all this through new eyes!  How far I've come from the days when I was drawn to only wanting to do single-sheet, supercomplex origami.

I suddenly have the urge to celebrate birthdays and occasions with fancy, creative, personalized cards!  (Decorated of course, with 2D origami).

Heart-shaped Pull Out Shadow Box Card?

Stumbling across this video, she referenced a more origami version of this.  Thankfully, she linked the video to her blogpost, which linked to the mentioned origami-version video & blog.








Valentine's Day is around the bend and I remember a couple of years ago doing a version of this where the two panel/handles were actually heart-shaped.  It was an easy model and I might be able to figure it out; or I probably have some buried somewhere.  But if anyone knows to what I am referring to, please provide me a model name and creator, so that I can track it down. 

I can't even remember how I had learned to make it; but remember making lots of them one year to give out at work, to the kids.

Pop-Up Geometry & More

In wake of polypopagon fun, Shafer's new pop-up book, and my continued search for a business card idea, it's led me to taking a bit of interest in stuff peripheral to origami:

Unknown Flip Book

So I've been going through my archives....



My OUSA roommate acquired this neat little flip book- a business advertisement.  It's not exactly a book and I had filmed it because I had planned to try and duplicate the process.  Does anyone know if there is a specific name for this sort of thing?  Any tutorial for it?





*UPDATE*


Hmmm....well, I Googled "How to make a flip card", and ended up finding this- a swing card.  Not what I'm looking for, but cool nonetheless and looks fun to make:


Her blogpost is here, for additional information.


These look fun, too:

How to make a pulley card
Peek-a-boo card 
Marvelous Magical Marquee Card Tutorial 
Sliding Pop Up Card tutorial 
How To Make A Twist Turn Card 
Secret Door Technique Card