Google is celebrating Akira Yoshizawa’s 101st with a new origami doodle on the Google homepage,created by Robert J Lang, one of the world’s leading origami artists.
Akira Yoshizawa (14 March 1911 – 14 March 2005) was an origamist, considered to be the grandmaster of origami. According to his own estimation made in 1989, he created more than 50,000 models, of which only a few hundred designs were diagrammed in his 18 books.