Oriland Balloon Ride : Fabulous Origami Hot Air Balloons

Oriland Balloon Ride will show you how to make fabulous origami hot air balloons of various shapes from the classic "inverted tear drop" balloons to the sophisticated round balloons à la Montgolfier!
Begin your origami balloon adventure! Do-It-Yourself - fold these fantastic volumetric designs, created by Yuri and Katrin Shumakov! There are one-piece balloon designs as well as multi-piece balloons, consisting of a balloon envelope and a basket, connected together without any glue, just using clever paper locks. Balloon envelopes differ by shapes, types of locks, quantity of pieces of paper (modular and one-piece) and quantity of sections. There are two types of baskets presented with these origami balloons - the Square Basket and the Round Basket. In the in-depth introduction to the book, the authors are shedding light on Oriland origami balloon designs, its different variations and gives practical advises, so that you will have all the insights to begin your origami balloon fiesta fun!
There are 530 detailed step-by-step colorful vector- and photo-diagrams with thorough written instructions and 100+ photos of examples of completed projects that will guide you through folding the 11 original origami designs. For every project, there are recommendations on paper type and size including an indication of the size of the completed model. The designs are intermediate and complex level of folding and are a good challenge for the novice folder as well as an enjoyable experience for the expert.
Fold these unique cheerful designs of hot air balloons! They can be a wonderful decoration and a treasured gift for your friends and family. Have a wonderful and fun time with this book creating a whole fleet of fabulous origami hot air balloons! Happy folding!

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The designs included into this book are: Hot Air Balloon (Modular Envelope, Outside Top Lock), Square Basket, 1-Piece Hot Air Balloon (Outside Top Lock), 1-Piece Tubby Balloon (Outside Top Lock), Hot Air Balloon (Modular Envelope, Inside Top Lock), the 1-Piece Hot Air Balloon (Inside Top Lock), 1-Piece Tubby Balloon (Inside Top Lock), Montgolfier Balloon (8-Module Envelope), Round Basket, Montgolfier Balloon (4-Module Envelope), Montgolfier Balloon (1-Piece Envelope).

Yuri and Katrin Shumakov - a stellar artist-duo, professional origami creators, who started their origami journey in France in 1989 and since then they unfold this art in a heretofore unseen way! They have created amazing paper world ORILAND with incredible fantasy Kingdoms that impress with rich detail of majestic castles, abundance of paper flora and busy life of little paper dwellers. Their newest kingdoms Toy-ronto and Albuquerque combine fantasy and reality together, presenting a whimsical artistic rendition of iconic sights of these cities. Another beautiful and elegant aspect of origami they brought to life is ORIBANA - a marriage of two Japanese arts: Origami and Ikebana. By combining these remarkable art-forms, in early 1990s Katrin and Yuri began to create paper flower arrangements in paper vases and thought up a distinctive name for it - Oribana. Since then they designed more than 50 charming oribana-compositions with a broad variety of origami flowers and vases. Being prolific origami authors they created more than a thousand of origami designs from simple forms and cute characters to complex dinosaurs' skeletons and architecture that all have a distinctive Oriland style. Psychologists by education, Katrin and Yuri have studied how origami helps children learn. Their Ph.D scientific work shows that by doing origami, children develop better use of both hands and that origami can improve creativity and intelligence in children ages 7 to 11. They believe that origami is "entertainment for the soul, gymnastics for the mind, and training for the hands." In 1999, Yuri and Katrin received the Silver Award in the ThinkQuest International Competition for their 'Travel to Oriland' website and it brought them and their team to Universal Studios Hollywood for the Award Ceremony! Their Oriland.com website became a winner of the Childnet Award that was given them in Paris, France. Both these projects were acknowledged as high quality creative, educational and fun websites for children and adults. Yuri and Katrin have written more than 30 origami books and instructional CDs, and their works have been exhibited in many countries including several venues in the United States, France, Spain and Canada. The Shumakovs also extend their artistic talents to the realm of photography and music. Katrin is a winner of the Toronto Photo Contest 2010. Yuri is enjoying music composing and sound design. They live in Toronto, Canada, love yoga and a healthy style of life.