I recently stumbled onto the Instagram account of Cristian Marianciuc and he’s been working on a pretty amazing project called Icarus.mid.air. For the past almost three years he’s been folding one paper crane per day and decorating each one in a very unique way. He just finished his 1,000th crane and every one is a…
Disclaimer: Tuttle Publishing provided a free copy of this book for this review. I’ve always been a huge fan of Byriah Loper’s “mind-blowing” interlocking modular origami models. I always had no idea how someone could design or fold amazing models like these. I’m still not sure how he could have possibly designed his models but…
Halloween is almost here so it’s an excellent time to take a look and some more spooky origami. You can’t have a Halloween themed post without a paper bat so we’ll start off with this awesome one folded by J.W Park. I love the pose it’s in and one of the commenters on Flickr mentions that…
In this post we’re going to take a look at something new, origami weapons and armour. Believe it or not people have folded everything from swords to guns and a lot of these models are very impressive. We’ll start off this post with this great paper tank photographed at a convention in South Korea. Tank,…
After 3 years of work Nicolas Terry has finally released his new book Drawing Origami Tome 2. The book features an impressive collection of 33 models to fold ranging from fairly easy to pretty complex. I’d say most of the models in the book are around an intermediate skill level though. The book is only…
Today, July 14th is Shark Awareness Day. Sharks can definitely be ferocious predators but they do get a bad reputation. Many people are scared of sharks but the truth is that they’re way more threatened by people than we are of them. Shark Awareness Day was started to bring awareness to the fact that sharks…
It’s time to take another look at origami kusudamas. A kusudama is essentially a modular paper model made up of various units assembled into a ball-like shape. They’re often quite beautiful with very interesting shapes and amazing colour schemes. First up we have this beautiful flowery orange kusudama. It’s assembled from 30 units. Allegretto, Designed…
In this post we’re going to take a look at a group of excellent paper farm animals. These are the standard sorts of animals you’d expect to see on a farm such as cows, pigs, sheep, etc. We’ll start off with these two adorable sheep from Gen Hagiwara. He folded these for Chinese New Year…
July 1st is the national day of Canada which celebrates the day when Canada officially became a country on July 1, 1876. This year is Canada’s 150th birthday and since I’m Canadian I figured I should definitely put together a post featuring Canadian themed origami. We’ll start off this post with this excellent Canadian flag….
In this post we’re going to take a look at a ton of different mythological creatures and figures from cultures all over the world. First up is an origami version of Sleipnir, the 8-legged horse from Norse mythology. Sleipnir is the “best of all horses” and Odin’s personal steed. Sleipnir, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and…
Origami Tessellations are a very interesting and unique use of paper. Especially if you appreciate the mathematics and design behind them. In a previous post we talked about the different kinds of tessellations and a bit of the history behind them. For this post we’re going to get right into the tessellations starting with this…
Butterflies are a very popular thing to fold out of paper. Just like in real life you can use all kinds of different colours of paper to make all kinds of different colours of butterflies. In this post we’re going to take a look at some of our favourite origami butterflies. First up are these…