Biography
Sipho Mabona was five years old when he folded his first paper airplane. In 2000 after having folded planes for fifteen years Mabona ran out of paper airplane designs to fold and turned to origami hoping it would enable him to come up with original designs.
Since then Sipho has designed origami for the award winning Asics corporate movie “Origami in the Pursuit of Perfection”, has exhibited his work in galleries in Tokyo, London and Vancouver and was the invited guest at Japan Origami Academic Society (JOAS) Convention 2008.
Sipho Mabona's origami covers a great range of different styles from very intricate representational designs to abstract geometrical shapes. Mabona currently resides in Luzern, Switzerland.
