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Happy New Year 2012!

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Yury and Katrin

Happy New Year 2012!
Oriland Authors and all the Orilanders sincerely wish you a Happy New Year 2012!
Click on the image to get to the Musical Greetings from Oriland and give a hug to the cute miniature snowman in origami garments :-)
http://www.oriland.com/myoriland/cards/postcards/greetings2012.asp

ORILAND Calendars 2012!
Keep up with the times with ORILAND Calendar Box 2012! It’s easy, free and fun and can be a good present! Just print and fold :-)

Check out the great collections of ORILAND Calendars at
http://www.oriland.com/myoriland/calendars/main.asp

Happy folding! Enjoy!

ORILAND MAGIC STAR!
The hit of the season is the new eBook “Oriland Magic Star” filled with fantastic, mesmerizing action models! Folds are rather challenging, but oh how satisfying! We got many emails from Oriland friends on how they enjoyed folding Magic Stars and they were great presents!
Not tried your hands yet in these models?
Experience the mystery of Oriland Magic Star firsthand! http://www.oriland.com/store/ebooks/oriland_magic_star/main.asp

Happy Holiday Season to all and happy folding!

Origami-ly yours,
Katrin and Yuri
Oriland Creators

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Yuri and Katrin Shumakov
Origami Artists
http://www.oriland.com/portfolio/main.asp
ORILAND – What Origami Can Be!
http://www.oriland.com

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Oriland Calendars and Magic Stars!

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Yury and Katrin

ORILAND Calendars 2012 are ready!
Check them out! New editions with pictures of Oriland Magic Star are among 14 designs to choose from! Just print on an A4 or Letter-size paper and fold your ORILAND Calendar Box! It’s free! The Calendar box can be a great holiday gift to your friends and family! And it’s quite useful for storing pencils too!

The calendar themes include also Castles, Ships, Cheerful Skeletons, Aquatic Life, Kusidama Garden, and even fancy Toy-ronto Planets from Katrin and Julian Ray Music from Yuri :-) You are welcome to choose your fave design, print it out and fold into a practical calendar box!

The patterns are in PDF format and available for both A4 and Letter format.

Enjoy the great collections of ORILAND Calendars at
http://www.oriland.com/myoriland/calendars/main.asp

ORIBANA Calendars 2012 with 8 designs to choose from can be found here
http://www.oribana.com/atelier/calendars/main.asp

The diagrams of folding the Calendar Box are available here

The diagrams of Magic Stars, pictured on the image above can be found in our new eBook “Oriland Magic Star”.

Check it out – the full web-presentation of the book with more info, screenshots and video! You can buy this eBook for just $8.95 and download instantly!
http://www.oriland.com/store/ebooks/oriland_magic_star/main.asp

Happy folding! Enjoy!

Origami-ly yours,
Katrin and Yuri
Oriland Creators

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Yuri and Katrin Shumakov
Origami Artists
http://www.oriland.com/portfolio/main.asp
ORILAND – What Origami Can Be!
http://www.oriland.com

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Bring Origami Magic to Holiday Season!

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Yury and Katrin

Cast Origami magic with Oriland upon this Holiday Season!
Get ready for Christmas Fun – it’s time to put your holiday ori-mittens on :-)

The diagrams of the mittens are in the Christmas Treats for Christmas Trees book, and if you are in possession of this book already, then don’t forget to download a free appendix to it – an ebook with special printable patterns for mittens, scarf and hat!

Check out the Christmas books from Oriland, filled with whimsical ornaments and decorations – stars, icicles, kusudama, lanterns and of course these cute mittens!

Ah, and the new eBook “Oriland Magic Star”can come in handy for Christmas season too! Just imagine what a mesmerizing gift the Oriland Magic Star can be! It certainly requires time to make it, but it will be surely unique!

Check them out – you can buy them and download instantly at
http://www.oriland.com/store/ebooks/main.asp

Check also Oriland Studio out for some free diagrams on decorations theme
http://www.oriland.com/studio/gallery.asp?ID=Decorations

Happy Holiday Season to all and happy folding!

Origami-ly yours,
Katrin and Yuri
Oriland Creators

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Yuri and Katrin Shumakov
Origami Artists
http://www.oriland.com/portfolio/main.asp

ORILAND – What Origami Can Be!
http://www.oriland.com

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Unfolding E V O L U T I O N !

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Yury and Katrin

Hello Oriland Friends!

We are happy to share a great news form our Music Studio!
Julian Ray (aka Yury Shumakov) has released his fantastic album EVOLUTION!

The album is his creative music vision of the way that humanity went through from emerging as seeds of life brought to the earth from deep cosmos to thriving of mankind with passion for knowledge, resourcefulness, compassion and then returning back to the stars to start a new cycle of the Evolution.
The album is bringing its idea through melodic and powerful compositions with elements of jazz, rock, electronic, ambient and cosmic music.

Julian produced a great video-demo with all the songs previews – you are welcome to listen & watch

You are also welcome to visit Julian’s site for more info:
http://www.julianraymusic.com/albums/evolution/main.asp

By the way, one of the compositions, “Stars Are Calling” is indirectly connected with our recently released Oriland Magic Star book :-)

Go EVOLUTION ! :-)

Yours,
Katrin and Yuri
Oriland Creators

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Yuri and Katrin Shumakov
Origami Artists
http://www.oriland.com/portfolio/main.asp
ORILAND – What Origami Can Be!
http://www.oriland.com

Posted in Music To Fold By, Videos | Tagged Canada, Cosmic, Electronic, Evolution, Jazz, Julian Ray, Julian Ray Music, Music, New Age, Ontario, Origami, Oriland Magic Star, Star, Stars Are Calling, Toronto, Yuri and Katrin Shumakov | Leave a comment

Oriland Magic Stars Are Calling!

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Yury and Katrin

Dear Friend of Oriland,

We are happy to share the great news from the Oriland World!

ORLAND MAGIC STAR eBook is released!!! :-)
This highly anticipated book opens Action Origami Series by Oriland authors and will teach you how to create mesmerizing action models – fabulous variations of the one and only Oriland Magic Star!

The Magic Star is a star-like shaped polyhedral torus that can be rotated, so its approximated torus surface constantly transforms with sections squeezing in the centre and straightening at the ‘equator’, while you do see the changing pattern of folds and colours that has a mesmerizing effect!!

Experience the mystery of Oriland Magic Star firsthand! Do-It-Yourself – fold these fantastic action models, originally designed by Yuri and Katrin Shumakov – 7-Point Magic Star (6 Strips, 2:8), Magic Star (6 Strips, 2:8), Magic Star (6 Strips, 2:9), Magic Star (12 Strips, 2:5), Magic Star (48 Squares) and One-Piece Magic Star.

As a good addition this book offers authors’ article ‘Mystery of Oriland Magic Star’, which will introduce you a story of this starry model with all its different variations and give practical advises as well. There are 360 detailed step-by-step colorful diagrams with extensive comments, placed on 89 pages that will guide you through folding the 6 original origami designs of the Oriland style. The ‘Photo Gallery’ section shows you pictures of all the designs presented in the book. The ‘Origami Symbols’ section is explaining international origami symbols to help you to read diagrams for folding. In each article, there are recommendations on paper size and indication to the model size resulting from the size of starting paper. The models are intermediate and complex level of folding as shown by stars in the book and are a good challenge for the experienced folder and the expert alike.

Check it out – the full web-presentation of the book with more info, screenshots and video! You can buy this eBook for just $8.95 and download instantly!
http://www.oriland.com/store/ebooks/oriland_magic_star/main.asp

Hope you will enjoy this book with all the presented techniques, shown in every detail through vector and photo-diagrams, making these mesmerizing models & getting the insight into the mystery of Oriland Magic Star!

Happy folding!

Origami-ly yours,
Katrin and Yuri
Oriland Creators

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Yuri and Katrin Shumakov
Origami Artists
http://www.oriland.com/portfolio/main.asp
ORILAND – What Origami Can Be!
http://www.oriland.com

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Remembrance Day Origami Poppy

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Yury and Katrin

Lest We Forget!
…in memory of those who sacrificed their lives in military service.

The origami poppy design is folded from one red square backed by black paper.
It is quite an old design of ours, we have put it aside for long time, because we tend to more 3D designs, but on Remembrance Day we remembered of it and think it fits just perfect into the theme.

Origami-ly yours,
Katrin and Yuri
Oriland Creators

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Yuri and Katrin Shumakov
Origami Artists
http://www.oriland.com/portfolio/main.asp

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Oriland Magic Star in Stereo Mode (Crossing method)

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Yury and Katrin

We are working on our new eBook “ORILAND MAGIC STAR” presently here, drawing diagrams and folding many samples to work out every aspect of it etc…. We did a stereo photo-session with these stars and wanted to share some stereo pairs with you :-)

It’s a stereo pair for crossing method of viewing!
To see stereo here: look directly at the stereo pair, slightly de-focus and smoothly cross your eyes without any tension (your right eye sees the left image and vice versa) keep crossing very relaxingly and you will see 3 pics with the stable 3-D image in the middle…
It is really fun and actually a good exercise for ocular muscles! :-)
*If you cannot see in stereo… then just enjoy the pics or see it in action at the video mode below

And here are more of stereo pairs for crossing method of viewing…
Here is the side view of the star…

And here is a quadriptych of the front and back side. You see that there are different patterns on front and back side – one is star-like, the other more like a flower.

This amazing action origami model was created by Yuri in far 90s and we just came around to publishing it… such things happen when you have the whole Oriland on your hands – we still have lots of our origami designs in line to be published :-)
The star can be rotated and while you do so the changing pattern of the folds and colours has mesmerizing effect! We do have a video of this Oriland Magic Star in action. Take a look if you’d like.

We put away all other origami projects for a while to work on Magic Star diagrams now, so the book will be coming soon – Stay tuned! / Bientot a l’ecran! :-)

UPDATE!!! ORLAND MAGIC STAR eBook is released!!! :-)
Check it out – the full web-presentation of the book with more info, screenshots and video! You can buy this eBook for just $8.95 and download instantly! http://www.oriland.com/store/ebooks/oriland_magic_star/main.asp

Happy folding!

Origami-ly yours,
Katrin and Yuri
Oriland Creators

* * *
Yuri and Katrin Shumakov
Origami Artists
http://www.oriland.com/portfolio/main.asp
ORILAND – What Origami Can Be!
http://www.oriland.com

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Spanish Branch of Oriland Mini Library is Open :-)

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Yury and Katrin

Hello Oriland Friends!

We are happy to share the great news that Oriland Mini Library now has its branch in Spain!!! Muchas Gracias to one of Oriland’s big fans from Spain, Olga de Pedro Garcia!

Olga did a fantastic work on this library! Just look at all these tiny books and adorable bookcases! Extraordinary cute folding and great scene composed by Olga!

We are glad that she enjoyed the recent Oriland aBook so much.
Want to join the library fun? Fold your very own origami miniature library too!

Check the web-presentation of the book with pictures and video!
http://www.oriland.com/store/ebooks/origami_mini_library/main.asp

Happy folding!

Origami-ly yours,
Katrin and Yuri
Oriland Creators

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Yuri and Katrin Shumakov
Origami Artists
http://www.oriland.com/portfolio/main.asp
ORILAND – What Origami Can Be!
http://www.oriland.com

Posted in Exhibitions, Origami Designs, Oriland Publications, Oriland eBooks | Tagged Bookbinding, Books, Diagrams, DIY, Download, eBooks, How-to, Mini Books, Mini Library, Olga de Pedro Garcia, Origami, Origami Artists, Origami Books, Origami Models, Oriland, Oriland Fun, Oriland Publications, Paper, Paper Art, Paper Design, Paperfolding, Spain, Yuri and Katrin Shumakov, おりがみ, 折り紙 | 4 Comments

ORIGAMI MINI LIBRARY – Now On The Big Screen! :-)

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Yury and Katrin

ORIGAMI MINI LIBRARY – Now On The Big Screen! :-)
Actually in High Definition mode now you can watch the video presentation of the “Origami Mini Library” eBook from Oriland Authors!

We are showing all the designs from this eBook and setting up Oriland Origami Mini Library – join the fun! Note, Oriland Goblin-Librarian is not included into the eBook :-)

Visit the eBook presentation page with pictures and screenshots here:
http://www.oriland.com/store/ebooks/origami_mini_library/main.asp

Fold your very own origami miniature library!

Happy folding!

Origami-ly yours,
Katrin and Yuri
Oriland Creators

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Yuri and Katrin Shumakov
Origami Artists
http://www.oriland.com/portfolio/main.asp
ORILAND – What Origami Can Be!
http://www.oriland.com

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Fold a Charming Origami Petit Bouquet

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Yury and Katrin

Hello Oriland friends! We’re working on a new Oriland Gallery on the website with extended artworks and though we would share with you one of them from Bellflower’s page http://www.oriland.com/gallery/flora/bellflower/main.asp at the gallery.
This is a little origami bouquet we did a while ago.

Flowers are our Jasmines and Bellflowers. Bells folded form Japanese Sukashi paper, Jasmines – from Moriki Kozo and greens – from copy paper… But be careful with copy paper – some kinds of it are loosing colour fast!

Diagrams of both flowers are published at ORIBANA DELIGHT collection http://www.oriland.com/store/cds/oribana_delight/main.asp

Diagrams also are available in Oriland Origami Studio on-line http://www.oriland.com/studio/gallery.asp?ID=plants

Happy folding!

Origami-ly yours,
Katrin and Yuri
Oriland Creators

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Yuri and Katrin Shumakov
Origami Artists
http://www.oriland.com/portfolio/main.asp
ORILAND – What Origami Can Be!
http://www.oriland.com