Origami insects continue to blow my mind every time I see them. There are tons of different animals and creatures that can be folded with paper but for whatever reason insects always look the most realistic and impressive. This post features another excellent collection of some of the best paper insects we’ve ever seen. Beetles…
There are a lot of really cool looking origami masks out there. Joel Cooper is undoubtedly the master when it comes to designing paper masks. He has a very distinct style where he uses tessellations and other techniques to create some amazing looking masks that follow an ancient sort of Greek or maybe Babylonian style….
Animals are still probably the most popular thing to fold with paper. In this post we’re going to take a look at another group of fantastic origami animals. Starting off we have this great little rabbit. Rabbit, Designed by Yoo Tae Yong and Folded by Jack Dreyil Diagrams available in the Origami Tanteidan 21st Convention Book Gen…
Animals are still probably the most popular thing to fold with paper. This post we’ll be looking at a wide variety of different origami animals. There isn’t really a theme here just that they’re all animals and they look great. First up is this absolutely adorable red panda from one of the best animal designers,…
We’re back after a bit of a break over the holidays! I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. Our first post of 2017 features some more awesome origami dragons. Dragons are still probably my favourite thing to see folded with paper. First up is this kind of adorable little paper wyvern. Fire Wyvern, Designed…
There’s pretty much no limit to the kind of people you can fold out of paper. There are origami knights, dancers, famous people and lots more. This post is a collection of a bunch of completely un-related different origami people. We’ll start out with this brutal knight. The whole model is folded from one sheet…
Christmas is almost here so Merry Christmas everyone and thank you for all your support this year! Here’s a collection of some fantastic holiday themed origami starting with this Christmas with Love model from Origami bluedandelion. Christmas with Love, Designed and Folded by Origami bluedandelion Instructions not available Here’s a very complex and impressive looking paper…
Origami tessellations are essentially patterns, folded with origami, that repeat themselves as long as you want to continue folding. There are 2 major types of tessellations, the classic type and corrugations. Classic tessellations are usually based on either a square or hexagonal grid. The paper in these tessellations is folded into an odd number of layers…
I’ve been fascinated with the crazy interlocking shape models that Byriah Loper has been designing for years now. You may have heard of the Five Interlocking Tetrahedra model before. It’s pretty popular, here’s a video showing its assembly. I’ve tried a couple of times to put this together but I can never get the 5th…
Gargoyles are statues that are designed to convey water from a building’s roof. The water would usually run through a channel on the back of the gargoyle and out through a spout in its mouth. These gargoyles are made out of paper to using them to discharge water is probably not a good idea. Nonetheless they…
I’ve been toad that I wasn’t using enough puns on this post titles so here’s a whole bunch. This post is all about origami frogs and possibly some toads as well. I just learned that Flickr has an option to embed Flickr photos on websites. In previous posts I’ve been saving the images, resizing them,…
When you start getting deeper into origami one phrase that you’ll see come up a lot is “Origami Tanteidan”. Specifically you’ll see Origami Tanteidan Convention books and Origami Tanteidan magazines mentioned. Usually these books and magazines will be the only place where you can get instructions for certain awesome looking models. This can all be…