This SA developer quit his job to fold origami, and landed deals with Dior, RedBull, and Pixar
Ross Symons was working as a web developer at a Cape Town advertising agency when he experienced "an undercurrent of having to go to a place to do work".
"The work was fine, but I was getting told what to do — and that's always bugged me. I felt like I had good ideas and something to give, but every time I tried to share them, the boss or the more creative person would always step in, and it would go through without real acknowledgement of my input," says Symons.
In 2013, with dreams of quitting and starting his own business, but still very much locked into corporate life, he opened an Instagram account called White on Rice, where he began posting pictures of origami art he was creating in his spare time.