Anne's Origami Blog

What: Penguins
By: Makoto Yamaguchi
From: "Origami Dictionary" (origami jiten) ISBN 4791606485 [in Japanese]

Why: I belong to an "amateur press alliance" 'zine called imagiro, and the members volunteer each issue to make a cover. Scott Cramer had come up with an idea to do a wintry-themed cover, even though it was March - both he and I live up in New Hampshire, and it's been very cold, even for March. He suggested Polar Bears and Penguins, so I folded a whole bunch of the Penguins.

Since they were going to be mounted on a cover, they had to be flat, and stay put, so I used glue to keep the bodies together, hence the binder clip assembly line in the photo.

Here's a detail:

And, yes, after we'd already made the covers, we remembered that Penguins and Polar Bears are from opposite ends of the planet, so it was silly to have both there at the same time. Heh. It was still a cool cover.