Michael G. LaFosse has been an origami artist for decades, and is a leading authority and master of the art. An avid teacher, LaFosse co-founded Origamido Studio, a learning center and design studio dedicated to the art of origami, and the only place in the world specializing in hand papermaking for the origami artist. Origamido also produces folded art and commercial designs for a variety of international clients. LaFosse co-curated Origami Now! , a wildly popular, year-long exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Vanessa Gould prominently featured LaFosse in the Peabody Award-winning film, Between the Folds . Richard L. Alexander co-founded Origamido Studio.

Alexander has designed dozens of origami models, and has taught hundreds of origami classes. A pioneer in video origami instruction, he has produced LaFosse's extensive series of origami lessons on video since 1992. He has produced much of the handmade Origamido paper featured in the works of dozens of origami masters, and has designed several origami commercial and fine art exhibitions.