[Origami] Joisel Award #3 Ceremony and Folding Legends: Neal Alias Tribute

[Ilan Garibi via Origami]

Dear origami friends,

We hope this email finds you well!

Origami & Beyond is thrilled to announce our coming free online event:

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   The 3rd Joisel Award Ceremony

We are celebrating the creative forces of 2023 by giving eight awards in
four categories. Join us to see the best works of the last year.


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   Folding Legends: Neal Alias 
   Tribute

Every year we wish to honor one of the great masters of the past, and this
year it's for the works of Neal Elias.


Our program includes a short introduction by Dave Venables and Robert
Lang,  presenting Neal Elias's biography and his contribution to the
origami world.

Next, we will conduct four free workshops teaching his models. Some will be
modern interpretations and some will be taught as they were created.



The virtual event is scheduled for November 25th from 15:00 to 19:45 (GMT 0).
You can add the event in your local time to your Google calendar by
clicking here

.

Please register here  to get the Zoom
Links Booklet. We will send it a day before the event.


We hope to see you with us,

Guy Loel

Ilan Garibi

Nicolas Terry

Re: [Origami] Celebrating Wensdy Whitehead and teacher request

[José Tomas Buitrago via Origami]

Hi Lisa,
I am not sure if it is so lete to propose my name to teach a Wensdy model,
via Zoom. She showed me her spinning tops and related stuff. I want to
show her dollar bill spinning top. That is a low intermediate action model
(a couple of squash folds at the beginning). Also, I can show how to get
the dollar bill proportion from any square (for the out of States folders).
Please confirm if I was selected.

>From Colombia

Jose Tomas Buitrago

Re: [Origami] Origami history, tangentially -- a media/design history of the cardboard box and the Container Corporation of America (CCA)

[Chila Caldera via Origami]

Wow! Thank you for this, Karen!  I've only skimmed thru part of it, but it
looks quite interesting. I'm also sending this to my brother, who is an
assemblage artist. I have also found the book on The Life of Groceries and
it's in my Amazon cart.

I also want to point out that I know for a fact that I am not the only
origamist or paper artist who has a collection of
interestingly designed and folded container boxes. I have been known to buy
a product (not too expensive of course!) just for the pretty or interesting
box it comes in. I have also been known to express more appreciation for
the box a gift came in than the gift itself.

... Best! from Chila /// --

Chilagami - I think, therefore I fold; I fold, therefore I am

Folding for Fun in Northern Arizona, USA

chilag...@gmail.com

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On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 11:52 AM Karen Reeds via Origami <
origami@lists.digitalorigami.com> wrote:

> 10/27/2023
>
> I just came across this thought-provoking essay by Justus Nieland,
> "Container Culture: Film, Packaging, and the Design of Corporate Humanism
> at the CCA." online open-access magazine, *Post45*, Issue 6: Midcentury
> Design Cultures, 02.12.21.anism at the CCA
> 
>
> https://post45.org/2021/02/container-culture-film-packaging-and-the-design-of-corporate-humanism-at-the-cca/
>
> The folded/cut paperboard containers that surround us usually get taken
> for granted. Origami folks are also likely to see them as raw material for
> our own paperfolding. This fascinating essay reveals the connections
> between World War II packaging innovations,  modernist Bauhaus designers
> (eg Moholy-Nagy, Kepes), and changes in corporate culture in late 20th C
> America.
> Includes Video clips from the industrial films by Rhodes Patterson, The
> Packaging System (1963) and others, and lots of fascinating illustrations,
> with occasional glimpses of folded/cut paper designs.
>
> By chance I also had just read the equally interesting few pages on the
> history of corrugated cardboard and cardstock boxes in *The Secret
> History of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of American Supermarkets*, by
> Benjamin Lorr  (2020), pp 26-28.
>
> Karen
> Karen Reeds
> Princeton Public Library Origami Group [on pandemic hiatus]
> Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/
>
> from Karen Reeds
> karenmre...@gmail.com
>

[Origami] Origami history, tangentially -- a media/design history of the cardboard box and the Container Corporation of America (CCA)

[Karen Reeds via Origami]

10/27/2023

I just came across this thought-provoking essay by Justus Nieland,
"Container Culture: Film, Packaging, and the Design of Corporate Humanism
at the CCA." online open-access magazine, *Post45*, Issue 6: Midcentury
Design Cultures, 02.12.21.anism at the CCA

https://post45.org/2021/02/container-culture-film-packaging-and-the-design-of-corporate-humanism-at-the-cca/

The folded/cut paperboard containers that surround us usually get taken for
granted. Origami folks are also likely to see them as raw material for our
own paperfolding. This fascinating essay reveals the connections between
World War II packaging innovations,  modernist Bauhaus designers (eg
Moholy-Nagy, Kepes), and changes in corporate culture in late 20th C
America.
Includes Video clips from the industrial films by Rhodes Patterson, The
Packaging System (1963) and others, and lots of fascinating illustrations,
with occasional glimpses of folded/cut paper designs.

By chance I also had just read the equally interesting few pages on the
history of corrugated cardboard and cardstock boxes in *The Secret History
of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of American Supermarkets*, by Benjamin Lorr
(2020), pp 26-28.

Karen
Karen Reeds
Princeton Public Library Origami Group [on pandemic hiatus]
Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/

from Karen Reeds
karenmre...@gmail.com