An origamist or an origamian is a person who is associated with the art of

origami ) is the Japanese art of paper folding. In modern usage, the word "origami" is often used as an inclusive term for all folding practices, regardless of their culture of origin. The goal is to transform a flat square sheet of paper into a f ...

. Some notable origamists / origamians are:

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* Jay Ansill – composer and folk musician who also wrote ''The Origami Sourcebook''

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Martin Demaine Martin L. (Marty) Demaine (born 1942) is an artist and mathematician, the Angelika and Barton Weller artist in residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Demaine attended Medford High School in Medford, Massachusetts. After st ...

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Erik Demaine Erik D. Demaine (born February 28, 1981) is a professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former child prodigy. Early life and education Demaine was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to artist sculptor Marti ...

– father-and-son team who manipulate flat paper into swirling forms.

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Peter Engel Peter Engel (born ) is an American television producer who is best known for his teen sitcoms that appeared on TNBC, a former Saturday morning block on NBC which featured all teenage-oriented programs for educational purposes. His most well kn ...

– author of several origami books including ''Origami from Angelfish to Zen'', ''10-Fold Origami: Fabulous Paperfolds You Can Make in Just 10 Steps!'', and ''Origami Odyssey''

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Tomoko Fuse Tomoko Fuse (, ''Fuse Tomoko'', born in Niigata, 1951) is a Japanese origami artist and author of numerous books on the subject of modular origami, and is by many considered as a renowned master in such discipline. Fuse first learned origami wh ...

(布施知子) – famous for boxes and unit origami

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* Ilan Garibi – Israeli origami artist and designer * Alice Gray – co-founder of the non-profit Friends of the Origami Center in New York

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Robert Harbin Robert Harbin (born Edward Richard Charles Williams; 12 February 1908 – 12 January 1978) was a British magician and author. He is noted as the inventor of a number of classic illusions, including the ''Zig Zag Girl''. He also became an author ...

– popularised origami in Britain; also presented a series of short programmes entitled ''Origami'', made by

Thames Television Thames Television, commonly simplified to just Thames, was a franchise holder for a region of the British ITV television network serving London and surrounding areas from 30 July 1968 until the night of 31 December 1992. Thames Television broa ...

for ITV * Jacob Hashimoto – created a large-scale paper mobile at

Mary Boone Gallery Mary Boone (born c. 1951/1952) is an American art dealer and collector. Life Boone moved to New York City at the age of 19 from Erie, Pennsylvania to a working class family of Egyptian immigrants. She studied Art History at Rhode Island School o ...

David A. Huffman David Albert Huffman (August 9, 1925 – October 7, 1999) was an American pioneer in computer science, known for his Huffman coding. He was also one of the pioneers in the field of mathematical origami. Education Huffman earned his bachelor's d ...

– American electrical engineer * Tom Hull – American mathematics professor * Humiaki Huzita – formulated the first six of the Huzita–Hatori axioms

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* Eric Joisel – French wet-folder renowned for his lifelike masks, including those of fellow origami enthusiasts

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* Satoshi Kamiya – one of the youngest geniuses of the origami field (born 1981) * Kunihiko Kasahara – devised a standardized method for creating many modular

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Toshikazu Kawasaki is a Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** J ...

– Japanese mathematician famous for his Iso-area folding theory and his many geometric folds, including Kawasaki's "Rose" * Marc Kirschenbaum – known for his instrumentalist designs

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* Robert J. Lang – author of many Origami books including the new benchmark Origami Design Secrets; formerly a laser physicist at

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before quitting in 2001 and committing to origami full-time * David Lister – founding member of the

British Origami Society The British Origami Society is a registered charity (no. 293039), devoted to the art of origami (paper folding). The Society has 700 members worldwide and publishes a bi-monthly magazine called "British Origami". They also have a library which is ...

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– Swiss and South African origami master who created a life-size elephant from a single piece of paper. * Jun Maekawa – software engineer, mathematician, and origami artist known for popularizing the method of utilizing crease patterns in designing origami models * Matthew T. Mason – American roboticist who developed the first origami folding robot, demonstrating advances in difficult manipulation tasks * Ligia Montoya – Argentine paper-folder who played a crucial role in establishing paper-folding as an international movement * John Montroll – probably the most prolific Western artist and author of over 40 books on origami * Jeannine Mosley – best known for her origami models created from business cards, including the

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. She has developed mathematical techniques for designing and analyzing curved origami models.

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Lillian Rose Vorhaus Kruskal Oppenheimer Lillian Rose Vorhaus Kruskal Oppenheimer (October 24, 1898 in New York City – July 24, 1992) was an American origami pioneer. She popularized origami in the West starting in the 1950s, and is credited with popularizing the Japanese term ''origami ...

– American

pioneer whose birthday (October 24) is one of the World Origami Days.

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* Samuel Randlett – helped design and popularize the Yoshizawa-Randlett diagramming system * Nick Robinson – professional origami artist and author of over one hundred books on origami

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* Jeremy Shafer – professional entertainer and

st based in

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* Florence Temko – pioneer in spreading origami in the United States * Norio Torimoto – Japanese origami artist based in Sweden since the 1970s

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Kōshō Uchiyama was a Sōtō priest, origami master, and abbot of Antai-ji near Kyoto, Japan. Uchiyama was author of more than twenty books on Zen Buddhism and origami, of which ''Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice'' is best kno ...

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priest, origami master, and abbot of

Antai-ji is a Buddhist temple that belongs to the Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism. It is located in the town of Shin'onsen, Mikata District, in northern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, where it sits on about 50 hectares of land in the mountains, close to a ...

near Kyoto, Japan, and author of more than twenty books on

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and origami *

Miguel de Unamuno Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca. His major philosophical essa ...

– Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher who devised many new models and popularized origami in Spain and South America.

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* Makoto Yamaguchi – Chairperson of Origami House *

Akira Yoshizawa Akira Yoshizawa (吉澤章 ''Yoshizawa Akira''; 14 March 1911 – 14 March 2005) was a Japanese origamist, considered to be the grandmaster of origami. He is credited with raising origami from a craft to a living art. According to his own es ...

– reinvented modern origami and created the modern repertoire of folding symbols

References

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