Everybody Kirigami!

To Mitsuhisa Imamori, there is nothing more fun than grabbing a pair of scissors and participating in kirigami. With little more than some paper and a trusted pair of scissors all sorts of beautiful papercrafts can be made by folding, flipping and ulitmately cutting sheets of paper.

And nothing can rival the smiles that arise when someone is taught how to kirigami. Imagine making delicate snowflakes or beautiful flowers with a few flicks of the wrist. And for more advanced paper-craft artists more complicated designs can be achieved through practice and enginuity.

Everyboday Kirigami! brings the joy that Mr. Imamori has experienced teaching kirigami in Japan to a Western audience. The concept is simple - transform a simple sheet of paper into a piece of art by folding and cutting. But Imamori's vision of Kirigami has many more applications. His patterns can be used for their functionality, by utilizing them with cloth for appliques, cutting into fabric or vinyl for decorations and for design use in the realms of book binding and card making. Featuring 72 clever designs and a range of different cutting techniques crafters can, with little effort, make their own cutouts for display, decoration, or embellishment. Once they've mastered the basics, Imamori provides ideas to help crafters come up with their own original projects.

Everybody Kirigami comes with 30 pages of ready-to-fold-and-cut patterns, on both craft paper and delicate Japanese rice paper, along with dozens of stensils to quickly get eager crafters going!

Mitsuhiko Imamori (born in 1954) is a renowned photographer. A graduate of Kinki University he possesses a degree in civil engineering. His career path would quickly change upon graduation though, as he would turn his focus towards photography. Self taught, Imamori cut hit teeth in the realm of landscapes and zoological photography for magazines and science journals. By the mid-80's Imamori's work would earn him the attention of the media as he was awarded the Higashikawa Prize for Best Photography Newcomer of the Year in 1989. Through the 90's he collected 4 Nikkei Children's Book Awards and a Shogakukan Children's Book Award for his work within the genre of juvenile non-fiction books. His photo books cover a range of topics and have taken him around the globe. In 2009, after creating nearly a dozen books, he was given the Domon Ken Award for photo journalism.