Practigami - Tapa blanda

In 2012, 31 origamists from all over the world created the 57 models that competed in the Inter-forum Useful Model Challenge. PRACTIGAMI is the fruit of that project. Here you’ll find 22 of the origami models for you to fold, each one with a practical purpose, and organized depending on the context of use, for example: origami for going out, for the house, and for dining. With this book you’ll be able to fold origami models as original as garden labels, fireplace bellows, and condiment shakers. Practigami was an independent project, made with love and dedication (instead of money) from all of us. Although I'm not a real editor I accepted the challenge and this is the result; it's not a competitive commercial book, it's just the humble creation we wanted to share with the origami community. That's why its base cost is solely from its materials and production. We hope you appreciate it and enjoy it as much as we did working in it. http://neorigami.com

My name is Gerardo Gacharná Ramírez, I’m from Colombia, South America. Since 2010 I've dedicated a great amount of time to origami. During this years I've created around 60 original models, elaborated the collaborative blog Neorigami (http://neorigami.com), and helped in the electronic fanzine Mini Neo. I also organized the Inter-forum Useful Model Challenge and edited this book. As an origamist, I have been particularly interested in models with practical uses as well as in making folded models a lot more durable–by folding them in metal, plastic, or fabric or by applying resins to paper models. At a theoretical level, I've also been interested in the relationship between origami and art as well as origami and intellectual property.