Origami Design Secrets

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1. CiceroCiceronisAug 2021
   Good to see origami on the front page.

   For those who are interested in the field - whether as art, for the fun of folding or the various potential practical applications - the best book on the subject by far is Robert Lang’s Origami Design Secrets[1], which is a fantastic read and covers all of these and more. Lang is a mathematician at heart but also a consummate artist. I certainly can’t recommend origami enough as a hobby.

   [1] https://www.langorigami.com/publication/origami-design-secre...

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2. nocut12Dec 2019
   If you want to learn more about this stuff, the guy in the video wrote a great book called Origami Design Secrets (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1568814364/). It's certainly still the book about origami design.

   For something that still touches on some of this stuff but is more beginner/child friendly, I'd recommend Jun Maekawa's book Genuine Origami (https://www.amazon.com/dp/4889962514)

   There's also the OSME books (http://osme.info/) which collect origami related papers.

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3. mcphageApr 2019
   His previous book "Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art" (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1568814364) was also really, really interesting.
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4. eagletuskMar 2017
   Robert Lang's tome Origami Design Secrets was my first non school related introduction into mathematics. I remember looking in awe at the equations in the back of the book, then I started taking math courses ... For awhile there I was almost able to follow what he was talking about, now 8 years out of uni, I can once again look in the back of that book in awe.
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5. poppingtonicMar 2017
   I love this quote from the book "Origami Design Secrets":

     If you are a beginning designer, you should realize that no design is sacred. To learn to design, you must disregard reverence for another’s model, and be willing to pull it apart, fold it differently, change it and see the effects of your changes.
   
     Small ideas lead to big ideas; the concepts of design build upon one another.

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6. amitzurMar 2016
   Oh there are so many good ones. Robert Lang's "Origami Design Secrets" is sort of a bible. Also, there are 2 publishers worth checking out: Origami house and Origami Shop (http://www.origami-shop.com/m_index.php)
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