Origami, the famous
art of paper folding, was used for making traditional crafts for centuries
until one man finally raised the art form into a living art. Japan's AkiraYoshizawa (born on March 14, 1911; died on March 14, 2005) is credited for
making origami an international rage.
Today Google
celebrates what would have been Akira Yoshizawa's 101st birthday by posting a
paper folding doodle on its
homepage. Today's doodle features the six letters of Google logo, designed in
origami style. The doodle also has paper butterflies, which are said to be
folded from Yoshizawa's earliest but iconic designs. The innovative doodle was
created with the help of Robert J. Lang, who is also a popular origamist.
The combination of
simplicity and depth is part of the essence of origami, and is key to
Yoshizawa's work and legacy,” says Lang,
a 50-something former laser physicist who left behind NASA and Silicon Valley
jobs to give full time to the art of origami.
Over the course of
his life, Yoshizawa created thousands of origami works and pioneered many of
the artistic techniques used by modern-day origami artists including the
popular technique of wet-folding. Yoshizawa is also referred as the grandmaster
of origami art. Yoshizawa served as a cultural ambassador of Japan for a number
of years and was eventually conferred with Japan's Order of the Rising Sun honor in 1983.
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