Dear Nicholas. As a very old member of the BOS to whom you kindly gave a copy of your first publication, I have long admired the work you have been doing in preserving the best origami of the past. Often I have felt guilty that I have not bought more books nut have spent spare cash on travelling! Keep up the good work. Many Best Wishes Joan Homewood
On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 at 11:56, Nicolas TERRY <n.te...@free.fr> wrote: > > Ronald Koh is a legend in our origami community. He has published so > many great models that every one of us has folded one of his models or > even discovered origami thanks to him. > > Unfortunately, all his diagrams are scattered in the many convention > booklets published over the decades. > > It has always been my wish to gather this life's work in a beautiful > book that would be the complete and definitive version of Ronald's > contribution to origami, and that would be the most beautiful display > for such a great artist. > > That is why we imagined with Ronald created an anthology of his models. > > We started with his fish. Easier because a first booklet already > existed, published in 1994 thanks to Origami USA. > The diagrams being old, drawn under the old Freehand, or even lost, it > is thus an almost archeological work that we had to carry out, by > calling upon the community and Origami USA, to find files usable with > the current technology. > From this, we rebooted the diagrams by coloring them and improving them > to make them compatible with a current printing and a high quality > printing, but while respecting the specific style of Ronald. > > Then Ronald managed to find 3 diagrams of fishes that predate the book, > allowing the folders to discover how these fishes were born. Then Ronald > updated 3 other super complex diagrams that he had made after the first > booklet version. > > So far, this reboot contains 14 fish diagrams and is the complete and > definitive version of Ronald's "poissson" period, in a high quality print. > > This anthology will continue with a second volume on butterflies with > articles of Ronald about his personal life and his accident. > > Then we will finish this great project with one or two volumes about his > animals. > > To support this anthology project and consequently Ronald, I invit you > to buy his book here : > > https://www.origami-shop.com/anthologyronaldkohornamentalgoldfish-xml-206_2649_208_2700-12565.html > > Thanks for your help > > Nicolas >
