How to make a 'simple' origami pyramid
I bought a ‘5 minute’ origami set from the bargain shelf at my local Waterstones this weekend. The guide it came with wasn’t good enough so I made a better one.
Process notes:
The original guide in the book wasn’t at all clear.
I went online and studied a couple of YouTube tutorials. Here is the one I found most helpful.
After practicing this one through a few times I decided I would sketch the stages for myself - as a way of learning the process. I ended up with 52 drawings. No wonder the original guide wasn’t clear enough!
I then tried to arrange and order it into some clearly defined sections - I ended up with five:
initial folds
diamond
kite
inner flaps
inflate
I opened up affinity designer on the Mac to do some laying out.
Finally I created an A2 image in Procreate and started sketching my original drawings into this composition, making a few tweaks as I went. Please feedback if you manage to successfully make the pyramid. The end inflation bit is quite difficult I think.
Alex Morrison: Four Good Rules of Strategy
Alex Morrison is the founder/director of Cogapp and WiredSussex. His recent business strategy blogpost got my juices going so I made this. You’ll have to do some zooming in. Here is a full size download. My notes aren’t a substitute - the full post is essential reading.
Andy Budd and Jason Ogle: how to get your foot in the door
Some sketch-notes of Andy Budd speaking with Jason Ogle in 2018 about ‘subverting the recruitment process’.
Although Andy was talking primarily about UX work I think the advice holds for other jobs as well.
The usual process notes from my sketchbook.
Clearleft: what makes a high-performing Design Team?
Clearleft are a terrific design agency specialising in top-draw UX work. Reading through their report on Design Effectiveness I began to make some notes. This is my visualisation of one of the sections within the report.
Here are my process notes:
