Sok Song

Origami Artist living in Brooklyn with a background in Fashion and Graphic Design and Theatre.

Sok Song’s passion for folding paper has bloomed from a hobby he taught himself from books during his childhood to an award winning origami design business called Creased, Inc. He has traveled all over the world to teach and spread the joy he gets from sharing this wonderful art-form. For over twenty five years, Sok has been teaching in schools, museums, conferences, and community spaces.

He has designed and installed the origami holiday tree at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC for many years. HIs largest installation there was a 55 foot paper dragon made from 10,000 sheets of paper.

Sok is the author of Origami Chic: A guide to Foldable Fashion published by Capstone and Crease + Fold: Innovative Origami Projects Anyone Can Make published by Penguin Random House. Creased + Fold has been reprinted and translated into 4 other languages. He also published and produced 12 issues of a periodical called Creased: Magazine for Paper Folders. (www.creased.com)

He is the recipient of many awards, grants, and fellowship for his teaching including a National Endowment for the Arts grant to bring origami to local schools and children of all ages. He was recently awarded the Forestmann School Arts Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center for the work he has done to bring paper folding to multiple schools and thousands of students all over the world.

In addition to the magazines and books, he has evolved the business into a creative services company incorporating origami and paper sculpture as a medium for advertising, graphic design, and installation. His custom design work and sculptures have been seen in magazines such as: Vogue, Vanity Fair, Elle, InStyle, Cosmopolitan, Pop, Marie Claire, Icon, Self, GQ, and L'Uomo and as well as in books published by Andrews McMeel Publishing, Firefly Books Ltd. (UK), and Quark Publishing.

Other notable clients for design and installation work include: Condé Nast Publications Ltd., Merrill Lynch, Paul Smith, Kenzo, IBM, Saks Fifth Avenue, Geisha, Rockwell Group, Walmart, Kanebo International, The Museum of Art and Design, The Amercian Museum of Natural History, MoMA, Imitation of Christ, Parsons Brinkerhoff, Macys, Harrods - London, The Company Store, Niebaum Coppola Winery, Mondo Mannequins, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Saatchi & Saatchi, J. Walter Thompson, Gotham, Inc, The Children’s Place, Fast Company, Gant, Cottonelle, Vogue, Money Magazine, Time, Inc. and The New Yorker.

He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York but travels over half of the year teaching and spreading the joy of paperfolding all around the world. His portfolio can be seen at www.soksong.com