Michael LaFosse's Origami Airplanes: 28 Easy-to-Fold Paper Airplanes from America's Top Origami Designer!: Includes Paper Airplane Book, 28 Projects and DVD
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Michael LaFosse's Origami Airplanes: 28 Easy-to-Fold Paper Airplanes from America's Top Origami Designer!: Includes Paper Airplane Book, 28 Projects and DVD Details
Review "LaFosse and Alexander have built up an enviable reputation for producing top quality origami products, carefully and expertly crafted for folders of all levels. Their work is an inspiration to fellow authors like myself and Planes For Brains is no exception—page after page of exemplary origami planes, beautifully explained and illustrated." —Nick Robinson, author or Origami For Dummies and World's Best Origami"…if origami is your thing, try Michael LaFosse's Origami Airplanes. It includes a DVD and instructions for 28 origami paper airplane projects." —All Done Monkey blog"Michael is the Wayne Gretzky of origami." —Guy Kawasaki, author of Enchantment and former Chief Evangelist of Apple"This is a marvelous collection of designs that are fun to fold and easy to fly, clearly explained by one of the great modern masters of the origami art." —Robert J. Lang, author of Origami Design Secrets"…there are twenty-eight instructions to make fun and unique airplanes. The instructions have pictures as well as words. They are pretty easy to follow. It is a fun book." —Crafty Mom's Share"There are so many cute plane ideas that can be created…The directions are simple, step by step. The photos are easy to follow…" —Test Try Results blog"Fly faster and farther with some of the best-looking and most-ingenious paper airplanes ever designed! LaFosse and Alexander's unique fuselage lock is origami magic, and they are a pleasure to fold." —Jeffrey Rutzky, author of Awesome Paper Planes Read more About the Author Michael G. LaFosse decided he would be an origami artist in 1971, after reading (and re-reading) a Readers' Digest article by Leland Stowe, about the amazing folded art of Japanese Master Akira Yoshizawa. Michael's uncle Norman had folded paper airplanes with him when Michael was a toddler, and his dad, Jerry LaFosse, was a photographer in the US Air Force. LaFosse burst onto the paper airplane scene in 1984 with his self-published pamphlet, "Aero-gami: F-14 Tomcat Fighter." A biologist by training, he went on to become one of the most celebrated natural history origami artists, making his own handmade papers and creating hundreds of designs now seen in exceptional exhibitions and published in dozens of books, kits, and videos.Richard L. Alexander was caught up in the ultralight aviation craze in the mid-1980s and built a fiberglass / foam / graphite / Kevlar composite, retractable gear, amphibious, canard airplane from a kit (the XTC Hydrolight, designed by Dan Diehl, of Jenks, OK). He met LaFosse in 1988, and together they have produced exhibitions and publications about paper art and origami. Alexander has worked with LaFosse full time since 2003, and since then has made all of the Origamido handmade paper. Alexander also teaches and designs origami, while being responsible for photography, videography, commercial projects and managing the Origamido Studio gallery spaces and exhibitions. Read more
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Many years ago, after my 7 and 4-year-old sons and I took a paper plane workshop with Michael LaFosse during the first Charlotte, NC Origami Festival, I bought all of his VHS paper airplaine instructionals, at $25 EACH. We have had SO MUCH quality time/family fun with these planes over the years, and we haven't grown out of them! Here are all 3 of them combined into one DVD - best visual origami instruction EVER - for an unbelievably low price! The planes are the best ever - fly fantastically! - I've wasted my time and money investigating many other paper airplane books, and have never found the level of success or satisfaction with any others. The video makes it failproof. I collect origami books, and have come to appreciate good instruction - folds aren't always presented in learner-friendly ways. This book/dvd set is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED if you love origami and value clear, easy-to-follow diagrams, but Michael's video tutorials take these to the next fabulous level of origami instruction.
