Origami shoe by Sipho Mabona
This origami was created for Japanese shoe company ASICS by Sipho Mabona of Mabona Origami. Original video is here. Celebrating corporate advertising isn’t really our thing, but this little movie is pretty engaging and it has, not surprisingly, won many of the world’s top animation and advertising awards. We can’t figure out where Mabona grew up, but he seems to be a black South African living in Switzerland who’s now a world-renowned origami artist. He also did the origami for Fleet Foxes’ “Mykonos” video.
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February 24th, 2009 at 10:42 am
http://www.mabonaorigami.com/en/artist/artist.html
In the German version it is said that he grew up in Luzern, where he lives. In the English version, they skipped that half sentence.
February 24th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Oh, thank you! It did seem odd that they didn’t talk about where he grew up in the English version.