Herman van Goubergen

Herman Van Goubergen (born 1961 in Belgium ) is an origami artist, known for his innovative creations of origami figures.

Designs
Herman's designs are characterized by a certain playful character and illusionism; his figures are sometimes trompe l'oeil. He creates new works infrequently, and in his pieces he tries to summarize and demonstrate a particular concept, often removed from the conventions of traditional origami.

He has published around twenty diagrams, available on the net and in origami conventions books. He has started or stood out in several branches of origami: the mirrorgami or origamirror (origami with mirrors) that combines the real-virtual duality and reflections and transparencies and among whose examples are his creation "Skull", "On the water / Under the water ", and" Fish "; origamobiles such as "Toy car", "Quacky races" and "Ships passing in the night"; and the curved folding, illustrated by the "Curler units", his conception published in an article published by the BOS (British Origami Society) and which has a school of followers. His article Il segreto del cappello di Thoki Yennmakes substantial contributions to both the theory and the practice of the specialty of curved folding.

Biographical information
Herman Van Goubergen, born in 1961 is of Belgian nationality and lives in Antwerp. He is a programmer by profession and has been creating origami figures since he was fourteen years old. He started origami in 1974 with the book Origami I by Robert Harbin. In 1985 he became a member of the Belgian origami group International Origami Center Belgium (IOCB), then joined the BOS. He has participated in the origami conventions of England and other countries since 1987. He has also been a member of the origami associations of Japan, the United States, Italy, Spain, France, and Germany.

Publications
He has published several of his works on the Origami Deutschland site, and the rest in the diagram books of origami conventions such as the Origami Tanteidan of 2014. Several of his diagrams can also be found in the Pajarita magazines of the AEP (Spanish Association of Origami), some with the instructions translated into Spanish. On the web you can find images of his models on the origami convention pages he has attended, such as the 2007 BOS 40th Anniversary.

His model "Gecko and fly on a wall", notable for its sculptural conception similar to a bas-relief, is one of the most widely disseminated: it has been published in Der Falter de la Origami Deutschland, in the origami magazine Pajarita , in the Origami Tanteidan Magazine , and the BOS Spring 1995 convention book, among others, as well as being available on various websites.

Brazilian origamist Jo Nakashima has made video tutorials on creating models from curler units and the Daily Origami site offers video tutorials on creating some of his origami cars.