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Origami hats for world leaders, folded from the currency of their respective nations

Xeni Jardin at 5:43 am Fri, Sep 21, 2012

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Hasegawa Yosuke creates origami hats for presidents, dictators, and monarchs from the currency of the nations they led. via MyModernMet.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

    This is fantastic.

    What’s that hat the Queen has on though?  Trilby? I’d have gone for a flat-cap.

    • http://www.xeni.net/ Xeni Jardin

      She’s a Shriner.

      • http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

        You just sent me on a strange trip around the internet.

  • http://www.facebook.com/victor.fricke.1 Victor Fricke

    Gandhi did not “lead” India, and Ernesto Guevara did not “lead” Cuba.

    • twianto

      …and that British lady still leads (present tense) the UK.

  • solitaire

    I loved this 3 years ago! 
    http://boingboing.net/2009/11/20/origami-hats-for-the.html