HW14.2 Final Project

For my final project, I used Photoshop to design my own origami paper.  The paper is a mandala of children at play and children's toys.  I found the images online and cropped them of their backgrounds.  I used Photoshop to flip and mirror them in different ways.  I made one version of the paper with a black background and one version with a white background.  The mandala was meant to focus on the physical and childlike aspects of the theme, play.  

I then used the paper to make an origami chess set.  I used the origami deigns of Joseph Wu, which can be found at http://www.josephwu.com/Files/PDF/chess.pdf.  There were six distinct piece designs for the king, queen, rook, knight, bishop, and pawn.  The paper design with the white background was used for the white pieces and the paper design with the black background was used for the black pieces.  The result is a usable chess set.  I chose to make a chess set because it represents the strategical, cerebral aspects of play. 

Joseph Wu's designs

Details of the Knight piece