ORIGAMI BLOG

The View from The Bay hosts kindly invited me to their afternoon show to do a segment on Girligami and  promote the Lunar New Year event at the Oakland Museum of California!

Many thanks to Julie Just of the New York Times for a sweet review of Girligami.

GIRLIGAMI – A Fresh, Fun, Fashionable Spin on Origami. By Cindy Ng.
Watson-Guptill. $16.95. (Ages 10 and up) In clear chapters, Ng describes the enticing items that can be made with origami: miniature shoes, purses, hearts, animals. (Practice may be required to make the fashionable high heels on the striking cover.) Packaged with bright papers to tear out and fold.

Click on over to origamibijou.com for Girligami. It’s only $10.95. Included are 3 free origami kits, value at $30.00 with your very own autographed copy of the book. If you love the Girligami look, click on over to fingermagic.com for deep discounts on origami kits, cards, and more!!! enjoy the shopping!

Photos are the best of 2008 Girligami photos. top left: Author with Girl Scouts. top right: Japanese American National Museum. bottom left: fans at Flintridge Bookstore. bottom right: fans at Capitola Books

Another major bonus for being an author is that you get a free book from the book store you visit. Many thanks to Books Inc, A Great Good Place for Books, and Clayton Books for the wonderful gift of knowledge. Also extra thanks to the Japanese American National Museum for a very special invitation to visit their museum!!!

Join us for more Girligami fun, laughs, and folding at the following locations!

Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009
Time: 12-5PM
Museum: Oakland Museum of California
Address: 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, California 94607
Event Desciption: Girligami projects and book signing with Cindy Ng during the Lunar Festival.

Date: Saturday, February 14, 2009
Time: 3:00PM
Museum: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Address: 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005
Event Desciption: Girligami projects and book signing with Cindy Ng

Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009
Time: 1:30PM
Bookstore: Copperfield’s Books
Address: 140 Kentucky St, Petaluma, CA 94952
Event Desciption: Girligami projects and book signing with Cindy Ng

Anyone who spends hours and hours folding, like Yuko Nishimura deserves an audience.

Check out the feature of Girligami by Cindy Ng on Jennifer Sbranti’s Hostess with the Mostess. Many thanks to my best friend Mel for the nice write up!

Currently you cannot send your eager child to origami school, fold for hours and produce a world renowned origami master. There are origami clubs, but not a curriculum dedicated to teaching origami. However there are design schools who might offer assignments that encourage origami inspired thinking!

Daniel Schipper who is a graduate from the Design Academy in Eindhoven (south of the Netherlands) discovered origami when he was assigned a class project to create a homeless shelter. When one is homeless, easy transport becomes a key design element. If you are lucky, you might have a sleeping bag; otherwise maybe you might consider Mr. Schipper’s shelter made from misprinted milk packaging.

Here’s a fun and entertaining way to use your leftover Netflix. Click here for more projects and instructions.

Vanessa Gould’s highly anticipated Between the Folds film is set to debut this Friday at the Temecula International Film Festival and again on Sunday. Here’s a sneak peek of the film.

Raymond Queneau was a French poet and novelist who told the same story 99 different ways and Exercices de Style is a lab that makes a bold attempt to apply the same idea, but in fashion design. A recent project called Walking City was a study on modular structures of a garment and seeks out how fashion arts and technology are to be intertwined.