Like others who replied to JC Nolan's question, I've been using and teaching the simple, 1-cut pamphlet for so long that I have no idea where I first learned it, let alone who created this brilliant model.
For a children's book festival in 2009, I made hand-drawn diagrams for the booklet and turned them into a fold-and-cut "Make Your Own Book" 8.5 x 11 inch handout. (I'd be happy to send a PDF.) When I teach the booklet, I always urge folders to try using it in other ways, e. g., as a module for building. 2 more riffs on the theme: https://bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/how-to-make-an-origami-pamphlet/ Paula Beardell Krieg's Book Arts comment on her (lovely ) diagrams pushes the date back to a book she saw in the 1960s. http://www.philobiblon.com/gbwarticle/hutchins2.PDF Ed Hutchins, Mystery of the Magic Box (1996) https://www.academia.edu/310386/Book_Dynamics_Ed_Hutchins_Turns_Twists_and_Topples_Tradition review in The Bonefolder, by Miriam Schaer. I just spotted this diagram for a much more elaborate book in a box by the book-arts genius, Ed Hutchins. I haven't tried it (or seen his Book Dynamics!) but it looks like a lot of fun. Karen 12/15/2014 Karen Reeds, co-ringleader, Princeton Public Library Origami Group. Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/ We usually meet 2nd Wednesday of the month, 6:30-8pm, 3rd floor. Free! We provide paper! All welcome! (Kids under 8, please bring a grown-up.) Princeton Public Library info: 609.924.9529 Next meeting, Wed., Jan. 14, 2015 -- Laura Kruskal will teach a sampler of her Multiform models. > >
