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It's always a bit of a suprise to see your work in an unexpected place - these image of Ant and Dec with an Origami Bird I folded from some household bills ended up...

I've wanted to do this for ages - get a bunch of videos online for both my marketing and and also so that people can learn some simple models from standard good old A4 paper (or Letter in the US!).

Most of my commercial work stems from a need, a brief or a problem that needs to be solved; a client has an event which needs X kind of workshop, or there is a shop window that needs to be decorated with paper to tell Y story.

I was invited to be part of Bupa's campaign, "Make the Elephant Run", a four-week-long digital event to celebrate Bupa’s achievements at the midway point of their 3x6 company strategy, & to energise all employees to keep going.

I love the challenge of trying to design a few origami model to brief, and for this project there was the extra added twist – it had to be a model I could teach virtually to over 100 beginners in only 30 minutes for an event entitled “Rise Up!”, quite the challenge!!

As part of my daily work life during Lockdown I am trying to regularly fold a new model from one of my favourite designers – I will write another post on this, but I find that simply making a model from diagrams (not YouTube!) is one the most calming things I can do for my own mental wellbeing.

It’s that time of year again when everything suddenly begins to take on a purply-green hue and things get a little more spoookkkyy! (cue scary music!), so here’s introducing our Halloween Origami Workshops – Horror-gami!

I have been running Online Origami Workshops now for over 2 years and have been so surprised and satisfied to see how effective they are at bringing teams together virtually from all over the world. Here are 5 things I often hear from participants as to why they work so well—some of them might surprise you!

These strawberries and apples were a lot of fun to teach – they are classic models, but then with the addition of the leaf and a few other tweaks, they felt very fresh and a lot of fun in our live workshop with Sainsburys

I love to keep my Online Origami Workshops fresh and up to date, and really like to personalise them where I can, so I designed some super fun Origami rings for Pride Month 2021! Here’s my favourite one, folded from 8 pieces of paper.