Ronald Koh is a legend in our origami community. He has published so
many great models that every one of us has folded one of his models or
even discovered origami thanks to him.
Unfortunately, all his diagrams are scattered in the many convention
booklets published over the decades.
It has always been my wish to gather this life's work in a beautiful
book that would be the complete and definitive version of Ronald's
contribution to origami, and that would be the most beautiful display
for such a great artist.
That is why we imagined with Ronald created an anthology of his models.
We started with his fish. Easier because a first booklet already
existed, published in 1994 thanks to Origami USA.
The diagrams being old, drawn under the old Freehand, or even lost, it
is thus an almost archeological work that we had to carry out, by
calling upon the community and Origami USA, to find files usable with
the current technology.
From this, we rebooted the diagrams by coloring them and improving them
to make them compatible with a current printing and a high quality
printing, but while respecting the specific style of Ronald.
Then Ronald managed to find 3 diagrams of fishes that predate the book,
allowing the folders to discover how these fishes were born. Then Ronald
updated 3 other super complex diagrams that he had made after the first
booklet version.
So far, this reboot contains 14 fish diagrams and is the complete and
definitive version of Ronald's "poissson" period, in a high quality print.
This anthology will continue with a second volume on butterflies with
articles of Ronald about his personal life and his accident.
Then we will finish this great project with one or two volumes about his
animals.
To support this anthology project and consequently Ronald, I invit you
to buy his book here :
https://www.origami-shop.com/anthologyronaldkohornamentalgoldfish-xml-206_2649_208_2700-12565.html
Thanks for your help
Nicolas
