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| Minimalist
Representational Designs |
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| Minimalist representational origami is a
form of origami that seeks to capture the essence of a
subject in the smallest possible number of folds ... or,
at least, a very small number. Such designs may be made
using either single sheets or multiple sheets. More information about
minimalist representational origami can be found here.
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| Single
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| Using 1 Active Fold |
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Name: 1-fold
Elephant Description: Pictorial minimalist
representational design.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1993. Created in response
to Paul Jackson's 'An Elephantine Challenge'.
Reference:
094
Diagrams:
BOM 161 August 1993 // Origami Designs Secrets -
A K Peters Ltd - Robert J Lang - ISBN
1-56881-194-2 // Sticky Note Origami - Collins
& Brown - David Mitchell - ISBN 1-84340-227-0
// Complete Origami - Collins and Brown - David
Mitchell - ISBN 978-1-84340-397-5 // Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Squarehead Description:
Pictorial minimalist representational design.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2014. Simplified from a
design by Nick Robinson.
Reference:
369
Diagrams:
You cannot be serious?
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Name: Waiting
for the Ferry Description:
Pictorial minimalist representational design.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999.
Reference:
195
Diagrams: Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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| Using 2 Active Folds |
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Name: 2-fold
Arrow Description: Pictorial minimalist
representational design made using 2 active
folds..
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2017. Created while
attempting to reconstruct Tung Ken Lam's Arrow
from memory.
Reference:
555
Diagrams:
You cannot be serious?
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Name: Easter
Islander Description: Pictorial minimalist
representational design.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1993.
Reference:
098
Diagrams: Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Minimalist
Fred Description: 2-fold pictorial
minimalist representational design.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999.
Reference:
178
Diagrams:
Origami Alfresco - Water Trade - ISBN
0-9534774-3-6 // Sticky Note Origami - Collins
& Brown - David Mitchell - ISBN 1-84340-227-0
// Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3
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| Using 3 Active Folds |
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Name: 3-fold
Elephant Description: Pictorial minimalist
representational design.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1993.
Reference:
094
Diagrams:
BOM 161 August 1993 // Super Quick Origami
Animals - Nick Robinson - ISBN 1-85605-728-3
contains diagrams for Paul Jackson's bi-colour
variation of the 3-fold Elephant (here called
Dollar Bill Elephant - though it is not folded
from a dollar bill) // Sticky Note Origami -
Collins & Brown - David Mitchell - ISBN
1-84340-227-0 // Complete Origami - Collins and
Brown - David Mitchell - ISBN 978-1-84340-397-5
// Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Faith Description:
Pictorial minimalist visual illusion / conceptual
origami design.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2000
Reference:
202
Diagrams:
Origami Alfresco - Water Trade - ISBN
0-9534774-3-6 // Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Penguin
- minimalist drawing with paper
pictorial design. Paper type / shape: Square /
Irogami.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2008.
Reference:
414
Diagrams: Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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| Using 4 Active Folds |
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Name: Bull's
Head Description: Pictorial minimalist
representational design.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1995.
Reference:
120
Diagrams:
Origami Alfresco - Water Trade - ISBN
0-9534774-3-6 //2, BOM 174 October 1995 - 4-fold
bull (see article 'A Bavarian Interlude' for
explanation of origin) // Origami Animals -
Greenwich Editions - David Mitchell - ISBN
1-86288-770-4 // Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Folio Description:
Pictorial minimalist representational design.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1995.
Reference:
204
Diagrams:
Origami Alfresco - Water Trade - ISBN
0-9534774-3-6 // Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Handy
Box Description: Pictorial simple solid
minimalist representational design. Many
variations possible.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2000.
Reference:
211
Diagrams:
Origami Alfresco - Water Trade - ISBN
0-9534774-3-6 // Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Hotel
Room / Swimming Pool Description:
Minimalist double image pictorial design.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999.
Reference:
181
Diagrams:
Origami Alfresco - Water Trade - ISBN
0-9534774-3-6 // Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Impossible
Object Description: Pictorial simple solid
minimalist representational visual illusion
design.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2000.
Reference:
211
Diagrams:
Origami Alfresco - Water Trade - ISBN
0-9534774-3-6 // On-line diagrams are available
on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Kite Description:
Pictorial minimalist representational design.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2014.
Reference:
365
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Llyn
Dhu - minimalist landscape. Paper shape / type:
Square / Irogami.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2002
Reference:
250
Diagrams:
Designed for 2002 Xmas Card (attributed to Oliver
Zachary) and originally title Sea Amid the Winter
Snow - picture in NOA magazine 2003/4. Title
refers to first line of traditional carol // As
Llyn Dhu in Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Nefertiti Description:
Pictorial minimalist representational design.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2011.
Reference:
098
Diagrams: Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Paradozical
Object Description: Pictorial simple solid
minimalist representational visual illusion
design.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2008.
Reference:
225
Diagrams:
Origami Alfresco - Water Trade - ISBN
0-9534774-3-6 // Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3
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| Using 5 Active Folds |
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Name: Banana
Boat Description: 5-fold pictorial
minimalist representational design. There are
only four creases but I include the curve in the
hull, which allows the design to stand upright on
a flat surface, in the fold count.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1991. Named by Wayne Brown
because of the curve in the hull.
Reference:
074
Diagrams:
Origami Alfresco - Water Trade - ISBN
0-9534774-3-6 // Quadrato Magico 75/76 Autumn
2004 // Complete Origami - Collins and Brown -
David Mitchell - ISBN 978-1-84340-397-5 // Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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Name: Desert
Searchlight - minimalist pictorial
landscape design. Paper shape / type: Square /
Irogami.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2018.
Reference:
561
Diagrams:
Diagrams not yet available.
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Name: Fred aka
Sophisticated Fred Description: 5-fold
pictorial minimalist representational design.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999.
Reference:
178
Diagrams:
Origami Alfresco - Water Trade - ISBN
0-9534774-3-6 // Sticky Note Origami - Collins
& Brown - David Mitchell - ISBN 1-84340-227-0
// Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3
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Name: Peacock Description: 5-fold
three-dimensional style minimalist
representational design.
Designer /
Date: David mitchell, 2013.
Reference:
352
Diagrams:
Diagrams not yet available.
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Name: 5-fold
Swan Description: Three-dimensional
minimalist representational design made using 5
active folds.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2017.
Reference:
554
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site
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Name: Swannet
Description: 5 fold pictorial
minimalist representational design which can be
three-dimensionalised with an extra sixth fold
(as pictured here).
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2017.
Reference:
553
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
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| Multiple
Sheet Minimalist Representational Designs |
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Name: B-Bear Description: 2-part
naive minimalist representational design. Two
squares, three active folds in total.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1992
Reference:
084
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Multiple Sheet
Designs page of this site.
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Name: Flapping
Butterfly Description: 2-part naive minimalist
representational action design. Two squares, four
active folds in each.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1992.
Reference:
552
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Flatmates Description: 2-part
minimalist representational design. Two squares,
one active fold in each. Both folds made at the
same time.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2015.
Reference:
276
Diagrams: Origami Alfresco 2nd Edition - ISBN
978-0-9534774-6-3 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Multiple Sheet
Designs page of this site.
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Name: Naive
Turtle Description: 3-part naive minimalist
representational design.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2013.
Reference:
356
Diagrams:
Diagrams not yet available.
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Name: Penguin
Cottage Description: 2-part pictorial
minimalist representational double image design.
Two squares, two active folds in each.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2015
Reference:
378
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Multiple Sheet
Designs page of this site.
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Name: Sea
Monster Description: Three-dimensional
representational minimalist design. Infinitely
extendible.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2009
Reference:
329
Diagrams:
Kid-O-Gami - Sandy Creek - David Mitchell - ISBN
978-1-4351-2338-0 // On-line diagrams are
available on the Multiple Sheet
Designs page of this site.
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Name: Wolf
Cub Description: 2-part naive minimalist
representational design. Body 2 active folds,
head 5 active folds.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2005
Reference:
299
Diagrams:
Origami Animals - Greenwich Editions - David
Mitchell - ISBN 1-86288-770-4 // On-line diagrams
are also available on the Multiple Sheet
Designs page of this site.
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