Finished book.

To make the book more connected to the theme, I used different things from home to use the origami. I usedthe Clare Champion newspaper for the seagull, Set Dancing News magazine for the house, a Willie Clancy Week brochure for the shell(which replaced the crab, as i could not find a good tutorial for the crab, for it to look good.), one of my old spelling books from Primary school for the fish, the handmade flower paper for the tulip(which I also used as the cover), and the Parish newsletter for the church. This is my finished book.

I am very happy with my book. There are things I could have done better, of course but i still think I did a good job. I'm happy with how it looks and how it makes me feel. It reminds me of home, which was the plan.

Beginning to make the book.

I made a few origami pieces for my book.

Measuring the paper.

 Midway through the process.

 Seagull, because theres always one in my garden.

 Fish and crab because I live beside the sea and my uncles are fishermen.

 Flower because I have a garden full of them.

 Church because I go to mass every week, and it's important to me.

 And home, the theme of my project.

Change of plan. Slightly.

I've decided to change the layout of the book. Imagining the way I was going to have it was boring me. I was trying to think if I was going to be viewing it it as an outsider, would I like it? No. So, I was browsing through different origami and found these.

At first I though it was cut out, but it's actually folded. I like how its jumping out from the book. I then got the idea for my book to be like a pop up book, having all of the pieces of origami on 2 pages, like its coming out of the book. Visually, this seems a better idea than before. I will make the origami and then figure out how I am making the book.

examples

There is a website which has a lot of different origami diagrams and tutorials. They have a wide variety of objects so I went through them and picked out what connects to home, and which I will be able to make.

Deciding on a theme.

So, we figured out that I didn't have a concrete theme to my book. I didn't want to change my idea because I still wanted to work with origami. So, I though of the thing that means the most to me - home.
I live beside the sea in a small village, so I decided to incorporate that into my book. A few ideas for the book are: boat, fish, cow, tulip, house, crab, church, music note. I intend to make these. My idea for the book is to have the name of the object in Japanese, English and Irish on one page, and have a drawing of the real life object on the opposite page. I would like for it to be interactive, where people can turn the pages and see which origami fits the page. The origami would be laid out around the book. I am more confident in what i'm doing now, and am happier with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXgm8XvBqL0 -boat tutorial.

Book project

We got a new project recently for contextual studies, a book project where we make a book with a certain theme, and which relates to our chosen discipline, mine being Print.
My theme for the book is origami. I'm very interested in origami and the process of making it. At first I had the idea of printing the diagram of the origami on one page and a print of the actual thing on the opposite page, with the name of it in Japanese and English underneath.

Today, we visited Galway City Museum, as there is an exhibition there on book art. Most of the work was 3D in some way, sculptural. A work there which I liked is called My Lovely Stones by Anna King.

 That made me think of actually making the origami, but I'm still not sure how I could make that work, would I have it so it's able to fold down(like a pop-up book) or I could lay out the book in a less traditional way. I'm still thinking about that one.

So after we got to look around, we started making a piece as a response to one of the pieces. I used the ones above, and this was what I made.