The greatest characteristic of Art Clay Silver is to become metal. The new certification program is to pursue a good combination of wearable strength as jewellery and folding expression of 3D ORIGAMI Art. Other than just folding, you can learn more techniques like new way of adding gold accent, texturing, bezel making, and finding attachment. Surprisingly, finished works with structural design are much lighter than they look.
Bellows Pattern Ring
Beautiful folding pattern like paper is unified with solid ring as one piece.
Pyramid Link Pendant
Process of making a piece of paper into beautiful 3D art work cannot be easily done with Clay type Art Clay Silver or metalsmithing process. Enjoy one of the highlight of ORIGAMI JEWELLERY.
Leaf Pendant
Beautiful twisted texture is captured in flexible leaf. Stone bezel made with Paper Type gives extra eye catch.
Beehive Pendant
Enjoy natural beauty of Hexagonal honeycomb design in Jewellery. New technique of "Gold" accent is another exciting part of this project.
Squeezed Texture Ring
Enjoy natural beauty of Hexagonal honeycomb design in Jewellery. New technique of "Gold" accent is another exciting part of this project.
Cherry Blossom Pearl Brooch
Adding a technique to cut away folded part gives fresh new impression.
My study have been focusing on creating geometric Origami Art from one piece of paper by folding in patterns sometimes curve pattern with technolody of computer science. With a combination of the technique of my reserch and Art Clay Silver, totally new type of silver accessories has been developed. I am very pleased if many people will enjoy great hermony of beauty of shiny silver and limitless patterns of ORIGAMI which is one of the wonderful Japanese traditional handicraft.
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1975 | Born in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan |
| 2004 | PhD in Engineering, The University of Tokyo |
| 2008 | Councilor of Japan Origami Academic Society |
| 2005 | Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba. |
| 2018 | Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba. |
ORIGAMI is Japanese word for paper folding. "Ori" means fold and "Gami" means paper. ORIGAMI is well known in the world as Japanese traditional craft and it has been played by many different generations and coutries. History of ORIGAMI as hobby has started from Edo era. Even before, people in Japan had used papers to wrap important things such as Kimono clothes, gift or money for special occasion. ORIGAMI is really rooted in Japanese tradition. Modern ORIGAMI was appeard after the world war and ORIGAMI art works have been sophiscated to artistic level from hobby. Now, the modern ORIGAMI has been evolved as "3D ORIGAMI" by research and technology of limitless folding patterns. The combination of the modern ORIGAMI and technique of Art Clay Silver makes brand new "ORIGAMI JEWELLERY".
Art Clay Silver Paper Type Plus is approx.2.5 times thicker than Art Clay Silver regular Paper Type. This feature gives sharp and beautiful edges for 3D folding structure. You can enjoy unique expression which is quite difficult to do with regular Paper Type or metalsmithing techniques.
