Paul Jackson

## About

Born near Leeds, England and Fine Art educated, Paul Jackson has been a professional paper artist, paper engineer, writer and teacher since 1983, specializing in origami and the folded arts.  He was one of the first origami professionals in the West.

He has written more than 40 books, the first of which were origami books for adults and children.  His more recent books have been about the application of folding techniques into design, a subject he has taught in more than 80 Universities and Colleges in 13 countries, to Design Students of many disciplines, including Fashion, Architecture, Ceramics, Jewellery, Product Design and Textiles.

He was one of the pioneers of folding/origami as Fine Art and has exhibited his folded artworks in many galleries and museums.  He has also curated several ground-breaking exhibitions of origami, undertaken many commercial commissions for print, screen-based media, festivals and more, and has been a consultant for companies such as Siemens, Nike, Tetra-Pak and Tata.

In 2000, he married the Israeli origami artist and educator, Miri Golan, founder of the Israeli Origami Center (1993) and moved to Israel.  Miri and Paul founded the Folding Together project and the Origametria programme of using origami to teach geometry.  In 2018, Origametria was accepted by the Israeli Ministry of Education into the National Mathematics Curriculum and is studied weekly by 30,000+ children of Primary School age.

In 2017, he was awarded the Sydney French Medal at the 50th Anniversary Convention of the British Origami Society, ‘in recognition of his outstanding contributions to origami’.

He lives in Herzliyya, Israel and holds duel UK and Israeli citizenship.  He still hopes one-day, to open the batting for Yorkshire.

## News

I usually post on Facebook 2-3 times a week, onto both my own page, https://www.facebook.com/foldinganddesign/

and ‘our’ page set up by my wife Miri, https://www.facebook.com/miri.golan, which receives more traffic and thus

generates more interactive comments.

This News page will present the highlights from those posts.

16th February, 2019

**NEW SITE GOES LIVE!**

After almost 15-years, I’ve finally updated my site.  Please return from time to time to see the updates, which I

guarantee will be more frequent than once every 15-years!  My thanks to Nick Robinson for his great design

work and his patience. **Selected Publications: as Author**

# CV

*‘Folding Techniques for Designers’* Laurence King Publishing, London, UK (Spring 2011)

Translated into German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean and 3 versions of Cantonese.  A special Hebrew-English edition was published in Israel.

(Officially a ‘Bestseller’.  Considered the standard text on folding and design.  Used extensively by students and professionals)

‘Structural Packaging’ Laurence King Publishing, 2012.

Translated into German, Spanish, French and Italian

(a step-by-step method for creating strong, self-locking volumetric structures)

‘Promotional Novelties’ Laurence King Publishing, 2013.

Translated into German, Spanish, French and Italian

‘Cut & Fold Techniques for Pop-Up Designs’ Laurence King Publishing, 2014.

Translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian

(fundamentals and math of creating one-piece pop-ups)

‘Complete Pleats’ Laurence King Publishing, 2015

Translated into Spanish, German, Mandarin and Japanese

‘How to Make Repeat Patterns’. Laurence King Publishing, 2018

**Selected Exhibitions**

2018-19

‘Into the Fold‘, Science Museum Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

2017

CODA Paper Art Biennale, Apeldoorn, Netherlands

2017

‘At the Edge’  Third Biennale of Israeli Paper Art.  Eretz Israel Museum

2016

‘Origami Universe‘  Chimai Museum, Taiwan

2015

‘Paper: Folded, Cut, Sculpted‘  Jaffa Museum, Israel

2015-19

‘Above the Fold: New Expressions in Origami’.  D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts,    Springfield Mass (8-person show).  Will tour a minimum of 11 Museum venues in the USA, to 2019

2014-15

Installation of 2.5m cube in the atrium of the Teacher Center, Herzliyya, Israel

2014

‘Surface to Structure: Folded Forms’  Cooper Union Museum of Science, New

York City, NY, USA

2014

8th Triennale Internationale du L’Art Papier, Musée de Charmey, Switzerland

2013-14

‘Paper Art in Israel 2’.  Eretz Israel Museum, Israel

2013-15

‘World Pop-up Art’, National Museum of Design, Seoul, South Korea.  Exhibition currently touring a minimum of 4 cities in South Korea

2013

‘PaperWorks’, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Mass, USA

2012

Exhibition from the book ‘Folding Techniques for Designers’.  Mediatheque Library, Design Museum, Holon, Israel

**Documentary**

Major contributor to the multi-award winning documentary about the art and science of origami, ‘*Between the Folds’* (2008: Green Fuse Films, NYC, USA), describing his work with paper.  Among other awards, the documentary was awarded the prestigious 2010 Peabody Prize for Broadcast Excellence.

**TEDX**

2018    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KljAhYPXFz4

**Origametria**

Co-founder and developer of ‘Origametria’, a method of teaching curriculum geometry using origami.  In 2017, the e-Learning version of Origametria was accepted into the curriculum of the Israeli Ministry of Education.

**Teaching: 1983-2009**

*’From Sheet to Form’* courses and projects run on over 80 MA, BA (Hons), HND, Foundation and ND Courses, across the UK.

Courses visited include Fashion, Industrial Design, Product Design, Textiles, Architecture, Graphics, Jewellery, Product Design, Ceramics, Packaging and Fine Art.

*In Israel*, 2001 to present:

Shenkar Collage, Ramat Gan, Israel

Dept of Fashion Design 2001 – present (3-4 hours per week)

Dept Textile Design  2001 – present (4-9 hours per week)

Dept of Environmental Design  2006 – 12 (4 hours per week)

Dept of Jewellery Design  2008 – present (3 hours per week)

Dept of Product Design, 2001 – present (private help to many students)

Mechlelat Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel

Dept of Printing and Computer Design  2004-7 (5 hours per week)

Mechlelah HaMehnal,

Interior Design, 2012-3 (4 hours per week)

*Teaching Outside Israel since 2005:*

Brigham Young University, Idaho, US

(Rexburg ID, 2017)

Lincoln University

(Lincoln, UK, 2017)

Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA)

(Tallinn, 2018)

Aalto University

(Helsinki, Finland, 2016, 2017, 2018)

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

(Boston, MA, 2014)

Northeastern University

(Boston MA, 2014)

Casa del Lector

(Madrid, Spain, 2014)

University for the Arts (UdK), Berlin (2013)

(School of Architecture)

School of Art, Granada, Spain (2013)

(Teachers of Art & Design from the region)

‘Textile Support’, Pavia, Italy (2013)

(Professional designers)

‘Dictum’, Bavaria, Germany (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016)

(Courses for designers)

Design Institute, Lahti, Finland, (2012 and 2013)

(Packaging Design)

ESDA College of Design, Zaragoza, Spain (2011)

(Mixed design courses)

London College of Fashion (2008)

(Fashion Design and Marketing)

Ghent University, Belgium (2008)

(Dept of Architecture)

Weissensee HS, Berlin, Germany (2007)

(Fashion Design)

Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (2006)

(Textile Design and Dept of Chemistry)

Fachhochschule fur Gestaltung, Schwabisch Gmund, Germany (2005, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018)

(Visual Design, Product Design)

Casa del bel Libro, Ascona, Switzerland (2015, 2016)

(Courses for designers)

**Other teaching includes:**

Sir JJ School of Architecture, Mumbai, India

Museum of Philology, Jena, Germany (lecture)

Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Mediatheque, Holon, Israel

Wilfrid Museum, Israel

British Museum

Victoria & Albert Museum

Crafts Council of Great Britain

Royal Festival Hall

Art in Action

International Craft & Hobby Fair, UK

Japan Matsuri Festival, London

**‘Special Guest’ at Conferences**

2019    Origami Mitra, Mumbai, India

2018    Korean Origami Association, Seoul, South Korea

2018`   Japan Academic Origami Society, Tokyo, Japan

2017    Pacific Coast Origami Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2017    British Origami Society, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK

2016    Interactive Architecture, Lisbon University, Portugal

2015    Origami Deutschland, Bonn, Germany

2014    Origami Didaktiks, Freiburg, Germany

2010    Centro Diffusione Origami, Verbena, Italy

**Awards**

2017    Sidney French Medal ‘for outstanding contribution to origami’.

**Selected Commissions**

2018  3-week Origami Festival, Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv.  Designed 120 jungle animals 1-2m wide that hung in the mall.  Also designed kits of paper-engineered jungle animals for 15,000 free public workshop participants.

2016  Design of 4 models for IAI (Israeli Aerospace Industries)

2016  Design of origami cow as the ‘hero’ for the Strauss-Elite ‘Origamoo’ campaign for the ‘Chocolat Parah’ (Chocolate Cow) brand of chocolate, Israel’s best-selling chocolate.  Featured as a TV commercial, pop-up ads, in-store PPS displays.

2014  Design and manufacture of a 15cm-high mass-produced die-cut cardboard model of ‘The Cardboard Bicycle’, invented by Izhar Gafni.

2011  Designed and built a 3.2metre ’Sleeping Beauty’ origami castle for Disneyland Paris, displayed on St Pancras railway station, London, to celebrate 20 years of the resort.

2011 Designer of all the effects and props in a stop-frame TV commercial animation for Clal insurance.

2010 design and production of 2,000,000 origami and paper engineering kits inserted into children’s ‘Shtuzim’ yoghurt and breakfast products.  For Tneuva Ltd, Israel.  Also featured on TV commercials, internet, etc.

2007-8 Orange calendar, Israel

2003-5 Designer of the European Packaging Awards

Other clients include: Citroen, Hewlett Packard, British Airways, Lets Go! City Guides, BBCtv, Royal Shakespeare Company, Sanyo, Vogue Italia, Harry Potter (movie 3).

**Consultancies**

Thomas Heatherwick Studio: London.

Lecture and workshop. 2017

The XD’s

Design think-tank sponsored by Accenture and Barclay’s Bank. 2015

Mead West vaco, Richmond, VA,

Packaging Design.  2014

Tetra Pak (Malmo/Lund, Sweden)

Co-winner of world-wide design competition to work on a closure for the new Tetra          Pak ‘Evero Aseptic’ carton. 2014HumanGear (USA)

    Part of a small design team to create collapsible tableware. 2014

KWY (Berlin)/Arup (London)

Pleated roof-forms. 2012-13

Siemens AG

    Various projects.  London, Munich, Erlangen.  1983-1991

Nike Inc

Design work on shoes and other sports apparel. Portland OR, Hong Kong 2001-4

**Education**

1997-99  BA(Hons) Packaging Design, Swindon College, Cranfield University (winner of  the Cranfield University prize for Academic Excellence)

1979-81  MA in Fine Art, Dept of Experimental Media, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London

1976-79  BA (Hons) Fine Art, Lanchester (Coventry) Polytechnic

1975-76  Foundation Course, Preston Polytechnic

1956  Born Leeds, England

2000  Married Miri Golan (Director of the Israeli Origami Center since 1992)

2001  Moved to Israel

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