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Office Origami: The Highly Successful Slacker's Guide to Workplace Procrastination

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I got this after reading the hilarious 101 Places Not to Visit: Your Essential Guide to the World's Most Miserable, Ugly, Boring and Inbred Destinations and 101 Sports Not to Try: Your Essential Guide to the World's Most Dangerous, Pointless and Laughable Excuses for Recreation. Those books have a substantial larger amount of pages than this much thinner book. Office Origami, if you don't count the time making the various origami objects, only takes 20 minutes or so to read.

What this book is, is basically 22 basic office related origami projects which are either helpful to store stuff in in the office, become helpful tools in the office, become a "team building" game, or just impress others sitting on the desk. Each project has an introduction on how to use the object to impress your colleagues, get them fired or use in other ways to help your career. There's a lot of great humour from Adam Russ in those intro pages as well as the introduction chapters to the book. The humour does drop off a fair bit with the final quarter of projects. Accompanying the intros is a photograph of the finished item as well as detailed diagrams on how to fold (make) the projects. There's also little post it notes telling you who came up with each origami. If you're not interested in the humour then there are better origami projects in other books but since these are all fairly basic if you haven't ever made anything before this is a good beginners book. Both paper and post it note origami projects are inside.

The projects inside are

Basketball Hoop

Business Card Frog

Shoot the Boss

Boredom Box

Water Cooler Cup (a great one to impress the ladies after you've thrown out the actual cups)

Frog Eat Frog

Paper Firecracker

Snap Dragon

The Naughty Elephant (or the finger when turned upside down)

Oragami Quoits

Rhino Hoopla

Executive Decision Maker

Elephant on a Motorbike

Easy Glider

Jet Fighter

Towers of Tokyo

Happy Suncatcher

The Cling-On Cube

The Multinodule

Multinodule Stars

The Magic Tube

The Gift Box

This book is good for beginner folders. It does not contain any difficult folds. While the advanced folder may be a bit disappointed with the models, most of which are in other origami books, it's great for what it's designed for - 5 minute entertainment at work.

There are games to make that can entertain your colleagues for hours, handy boxes etc, but my favourite has to be the "Executive Decision Maker" (a fortune teller).

In summary, while, most of the folds are not original, the book contains a good compilation of folds suitable for office entertainment.

Fun in the office - for coffee breaks and lunch hours (half-hours?). Projects may be too complex for beginners. Need some patience to complete.

This was a stocking stuffer and worth every penny. It has some cute things inside.

Book came quickly and as described. Very smooth transaction. Well packaged. No problems at all.