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Creaselightning is now available as both a printed book or as an e-book. It can be purchased directly from Amazon; Creaselightning

More Origami Projects is now available as both a printed book and an e-book. Either version can be purchased from Amazon More Origami Projects

Origami Projects is now available from Amazon as a printed book or an ebook version. The book was my first collection of models first published in 1995. Available from Amazon now Origami Projects

The Creaselightning Youtube site has a large collection of online instructional videos initially developed for a project with Hewlett Packard. In the current international lockdown period of self isolation more videos will be released as Origami plays its part in getting us through. If you have any success why not post images to the Creaselightning...

Angel https://youtu.be/Yj8VGx_Jnl4 Father Christmas https://youtu.be/x1V0XO5wEbM

The Ghosts of the Old town is a collection of poems written for Halloween. It includes poems written by myself, my mother, Marion, my nephew Jack and friend David Jones. Marion drew the illustrations. Many of the poems in the book were performed on the Old Hatfield Halloween walk. It is now available from Amazon...

Delighted to attend the Structure and Materials in Origami (SAMIO) 2019 conference in Shanghai, China. The conference enabled a showcase of research into the applications of origami in Engineering, from folding structures to hinges for rigid folding problems. I gave a two hour workshop to about 150 delegates on Sunday 22 September at the Shanghai...

Creaselightning will be attending the Also festival for 2019 and delivering origami workshops throughout the programme. From lantern making on Friday night to more traditional folding sessions on the Saturday morning. Do join us at Cobden Verney https://www.also-festival.com/

27 to 28 June 2019 Delivered a two day origami workshop looking at how folding had been used in some of the core study areas for the University of Hertfordshire Masters students from the art school. Looking specifically at Origami in Fashion, Origami in illustration, Origami in Product Design, and Origami in Architecture. The two...

Honoured to be an invited speaker at the The History of Recreational Mathematics conference on Saturday May 18th. Lecture: Unfolding possibilities; Origami and Mathematics Origami and Paperfolding has had a long association with Mathematics, from exploring Mathematical ideas inherent in folding to developing Mathematics to explain the folding process. The talk will look at some...

Prof Jon Cooper and Julien Rebound have developed a folded-paper based Malaria diagnostic test and came to me to create some images and projects to help with the outreach. First off an Origami Mosquito model, that could be used for editorial support if the work was discussed, secondly a fold your own mosquito project to...

The 2018 Christmas lectures were presented by Prof Alice Roberts and focussed on the origins of life. Part of the structure of the lecture included a hanging mobile featuring origami creatures that represented various stages of evolution.  The mobile was lowered into the studio at relevant moments and creatures were added or discussed.  The lecture...