Maximiliano Ortiz

I am Maximiliano Javier Ortiz, graphic designer, professional photographer, and origamist since 2002. I was born in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, province of Buenos Aires Argentina. Origami came into my life because of a television program broadcasted in city of Monteros Tucumán where I used to travel on my vacations after finishing school days. I was surprised to be able to make figures, with just a square of paper. Then, in my teens, I learned how to fold creanes. I also paricipated as a collaborator of the project “A thousand Cranes for Peace” in San Nicolás. I made a senbazuru (a thousand creanes) for 3 years in a row which always gave me great enthusiasm. Over the years with the help of internet, I discovered modular Origami, I felt passion from the beginning. I admire the creators of those designs and the way they managed to fit everything into place without the help of glue I saw it as something magical. On september 2011 I decided to play with papers trying to find flaps and pockets, and that is how my first model “Felicitas” came up. I found out that I could do it and it was not something impossible to achieve. With this publication of my first Book, with 23 stars of my authorship I feel a great achievement. Every thing that is in it was made by me models, diagrams design, photograph ans book design. I hope this is the first of many to come and I encourage all the people to play whith papers... Surely they will be happy and something will come up!