My six-year-old son is obsessed with paper airplanes. There’s a giant pile of them on our dining room table. He varies the design, or makes them huge or so tiny he can hardly fold them. But he’s on to something.
Sipho Mabona folded paper planes from the age of five until he ran out of designs more than a decade later. After another decade, he was deep into origami—not just folding, but designing. Mabona then began making stop motion films of his work, and last year won an award for the extraordinary film he made for Asics.
The precision of his work, captured in digital graphics, is counterbalanced by its vitality; his insects and animals look almost real, and his stop-motion videos almost breathe with life. Images and videos after the jump, and more on Mobona’s flickr site.
THE MAKING OF AN ORIGAMI KOI from MABONA ORIGAMI on Vimeo.
Tony Williams: DREAMING OF YOUR LOVE (KOFT video contest WINNER!!!) from MABONA ORIGAMI on Vimeo.
Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection from MABONA ORIGAMI on Vimeo.
