This special project, Origami Aircraft, for Thunder Bay Press (by way of The Book Shop, Ltd.) is part of a trio of Origami kits published and produced in 2015. As the centerpiece to these kits, I designed the 112-page instruction book for every step needed to create these amazing models. The Origami Aircraft models were designed by folding masters Seth Friedman, Marc Kirschenbaum, Jason Ku, and Dan Robinson. Step diagrams illustrated by Marcio Noguchi. These hugely wonderful kids include origami paper that I had the pleasure of designing. This is an insanely fun process. Here’s how it goes. The Origami Artist will fold the models in plain white paper. Then I take the handoff. I draw the features (in this case, windshields, rivets, plane numbers, and such) on the models. then…shutter….I unfold and flatten these beautiful folded works of art. This serves as my map for art placement. It ensures that, in the final folded model, taillights don’t end up on the side of the Cessna 150! Each of the kits also have a special feature. Origami Aircraft included stickers as the finishing touches on the origami-folded planes. These stickers included flight numbers, windshields, plane names and more decorative elements. The kit was constructed with a magnetically closed, over-sized, multi-part cigar box case.