Samuel L Randlett (January 11, 1930 – July 2023) was an American
origami
) is the Japanese art of paper folding. In modern usage, the word "origami" is often used as an inclusive term for all folding practices, regardless of their culture of origin. The goal is to transform a flat square sheet of paper into a ...
artist who helped develop the modern system for diagramming origami folds. Together with
Robert Harbin
Robert Harbin (born Edward Richard Charles Williams; 12 February 1908 – 12 January 1978) was a South African-born magician and author. He is noted as the inventor of a number of classic illusions, including the '' Zig Zag Girl''. He also becam ...
he developed the notation introduced by
Akira Yoshizawa
was a Japanese origamist, considered to be the grandmaster of origami. He is credited with raising origami from a craft to a living art. According to his own estimation made in 1989, he created more than 50,000 models, of which only a few hundred ...
to form what is now called the
Yoshizawa-Randlett system (sometimes known as Yoshizawa-Randlett-Harbin system). This was first described in Samuel Randlett's ''Art of Origami'' in 1961.
Career and Origami
He was born in New Jersey on January 11, 1930. He graduated from
Northwestern University
Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...
and became a music professor.
He became interested in paper-folding in 1958 and within a year had his own figures on display at the
Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration in New York. At the age of 30 started work on ''The Art of Origami''. His first wife Jean illustrated this and most of his subsequent books. He came to know most of the then fairly small origami community around the world and edited an origami newsletter called ''The Flapping Bird'' from 1969 to 1976.
He died in Wisconsin in July 2023.
[https://origamiusa.org/thefold/article/samuel-randlett-who-created-origami-books-60s]
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Origami artists
1930 births
Northwestern University alumni
2023 deaths