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Norio Torimoto

Norio Torimoto

Norio Torimoto won great fame in 1991 at Nippon Origami Association World Exhibition and was appointed Origami Master, one of nine in the world, by Nippon Origami Association on New Years Day, 2000. He is born in Japan but now lives in Sweden and among his origami creations you will find figures like Pippi Longstocking, Björn Borg, Boris Yeltsin, Olof Palme as well as the present Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson.

Norio Torimoto has also participated at mathematical conferences to show how origami can be used as a mathematical tool to solve mathematical problems.

Norio has not only worked in Sweden and Japan. He has also been invited to or co-operated with several projects in other countries like the USA, Hungary, Poland, Latvia, Italy and Germany in order to exhibit his origami works.

In 1987 Norio was commissioned to create an origami panda, symbol of World Wildlife Foundation (WWF), and also had the honour to present the panda to his majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

To get in contact with Norio Torimoto you can mail him at info@homing-paper-plane.com