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| Adaptations
are those designs where I have taken an existing design -
usually a traditional design, a playground fold or a
classic modern design - and tweaked it slightly to create
something different, or, perhaps just occasionally,
something better. I very much like this way of designing. It
makes me feel connected to those, often unknown and
unremembered, paperfolders who first pioneered the
exploration of what folding paper can do.
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Name: Basketball
Hoop with Stabiliser - adaptation of a
modern design of unknown origin by the addition
of a spring loaded stabiliser. Paper shape / type:
2 sheets of A4 or similar rectangular paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2005.
Reference:
072
Diagrams:
Office Origami - Adam Russ - Universe Publishing
- ISBN 0-7893-1313-8 // Online diagrams can be
found on the Designs of unknown
origin page of this site.
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Name: Blow-up
Long-eared Owl - adaptation of the
traditional Waterbomb. Paper shape / type:
Square paper of any kind.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2014
Reference:
359
Diagrams:
Diagrams not yet available.
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Name: Bric-a-brac
- ultimate simplification of the traditional
Chinese Junk design. Paper shape / type:
Square paper of any kind.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2001
Reference:
228
Diagrams:
Origami - Barnes and Noble - ISBN 0-7607-3331-7
// Quadrato Magico 75/76 Autumn 2004 // On-line
diagrams are available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Coy
Carp - alternative fish from the
traditional Kabuto using the same cut as used for
the traditional Goldfish. Paper shape / type:
Square homogeneous / dyed paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2001
Reference:
230
Diagrams:
Origami - Barnes and Noble - ISBN 0-7607-3331-7 -
attributed to Oliver Zachary // Complete Origami
- Collins and Brown - David Mitchell - ISBN
978-1-84340-397-5 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Fantail
Secret Chicken - adaptation of a
possibly traditional design. Paper shape / type:
Square homogeneous / dyed paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2006
Reference:
302
Diagrams:
Origami Animals - Greenwich Editions - David
Mitchell - ISBN 1-86288-770-4 // On-line diagrams
are available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Flick
Flack - a version of Seiryo Takekawa's
Tarumpty Tum Tum (aka Tumbler) which has
roll-back ability. Paper shape / type: A4 paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2002
Reference:
243
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Frog
Eat Frog - cut and fold design.
Adaptation of a Paul Jackson design (which was
itself an adaptation of a Robert E Neale
original). Frog Eat Frog Eat Frog is also
possible. Paper shape / type: A4 or similar
rectangle.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2005
Reference:
278
Diagrams:
Office Origami - Adam Russ - Universe Publishing
- ISBN 0-7893-1313-8 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Infinity
Envelope - adaptation of a possibly
traditional design. Paper shape / type:
Square paper of any type.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2005
Reference:
281
Diagrams:
Diagrams not yet available.
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Name: Kamikaze
- adaptation of the business card
jumping frog design so that it works from
ordinary square origami paper. Paper shape / type:
Square paper of any type.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2012
Reference:
340
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Knotfish
- adaptation of the traditional Lover's
Knot. Paper shape / type: Square
homogeneous / dyed paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1996
Reference:
127
Diagrams:
BOM 185 August 1997 // Complete Origami - Collins
and Brown - David Mitchell - ISBN
978-1-84340-397-5 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: New
Mystery Box - simplification of possibly
traditional Japanese design. Paper shape / type:
6 identical modules from 4x1 rectangles.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1996
Reference:
128
Diagrams:
Synergy 1 - Water Trade // On-line diagrams are
available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
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Name: Noah's
Ark - development of the traditional
Paper Boat. Paper shape / type: Square paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2009
Reference:
327
Diagrams:
Diagrams not yet available.
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Name: Cocotte
in Flight / Pajarita in Flight -
adaptation of the traditional design. Paper type / shape:
Square / Any kind of paper
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1997.
Reference:
570
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Octagonal
Masu - variation of a traditional
design. Paper type / shape: A4 / Homogeneous
paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2007
Reference:
317
Diagrams:
Diagrams not yet available.
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Name: Pocket
Tetrahedron - a pure origami version of
the traditional pop-up tetrahedron from an
envelope. Paper shape / type: A4 or similar
rectangle.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1994
Reference:
113
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Snap
Dragon - variation of a jumping design
by Dorothy Engleman. Paper shape / type:
File card
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2005
Reference:
294
Diagrams:
Office Origami - Adam Russ - Universe Publishing
- ISBN 0-7893-1313-8
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Name: Strengtheners
for the Magazine Box Paper shape / type:
A4 or similar rectangle.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2005
Reference:
073
Diagrams:
As Boredom Box in Office Origami - Adam Russ -
Universe Publishing - ISBN 0-7893-1313-8 //
Online diagrams can be found on the Designs of unknown origin page of this site.
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Name: Super
Rooster - accessorised version of
possibly traditional Rooster design. Paper shape / type:
Squares and 2x1 rectangle
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2006
Reference:
310
Diagrams:
Origami Animals - Greenwich Editions - David
Mitchell - ISBN 1-86288-770-4 // On-line diagrams
are available on the Multiple Sheet
Designs page of this site.
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Name: Turkey
- adaptation of a possibly traditional
design. Paper shape / type: Square paper of
any kind.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2006
Reference:
311
Diagrams:
Origami Animals - Greenwich Editions - David
Mitchell - ISBN 1-86288-770-4
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Name: Waterbomb
Variation Paper shape / type: Square paper of
any kind.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2014
Reference:
521
Diagrams:
Diagrams not yet available
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Name: Woodpecker
- simple active play paperfold -
adaptation of Paul Jackson's fold of the same
name to provide a hole for the beak to peck into. Paper shape / type:
Square paper of any type.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1988
Reference:
033
Diagrams:
BOS Convention Pack Spring 1989 // Origami
Animals - Greenwich Editions - David Mitchell -
ISBN 1-86288-770-4.
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