Origami Chess: Cats vs. Dogs
This special project, Origami Chess: Cats vs. Dogs, 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 needs to create these amazing models. The Origami Aircraft models were designed by folding master Roman Diaz. 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, markings and tails and ears, 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, ears don’t end up on the hind end of of the Siamese cat!
Each of the kits also have a special feature. Origami Chess included a fold-out PLC (double-sided) chess board. The folding projects in this kit make Chess pieces suitable for play on the board.
The kit was constructed with a magnetically closed, over-sized, multi-part cigar box case.
