This category features news, events and other interesting things from the world wide origami community. You’ll find guest posts by artists, information about paper folding groups and much more.
Hello Origami.me members! I would like to invite you to view a brand new Feature Length Documentary film titled, ORIGAMI IN THE GARDEN that has just been released! The film presents the origin story for sculptor Kevin Box who has always known exactly what he intends to do with his life. In his words, “I…
The 2021 Joisel Awards is still accepting nominations for about another month. If you haven’t already head over to this form and nominate some excellent origami you’ve seen or even your own. The categories are: The Artistic Award – for the creator The Technical Award – for the creator The Folding Process Award – for…
The Community for Creators of Origami has created a new yearly event/award called the Joisel Awards. The award is named in honor of Eric Joisel, an amazing origami artist who sadly passed away in 2010. There are two fields, Figurative and Abstract and four main awards, the Artistic Award, the Technical Award, The Folding-Process Award…
Gerardo, from Neorgami and Mini Neo, will be offering an online conference/workshop at zero cost. Attend the event through the Zoom platform on Saturday, May 9, 10:00 – 12:30 pm (New York) / 3:00 – 5:30 (London). You’ll be folding a bit and learning about the characteristics of a particular approach to the creation of…
Now that 2018 is officially over the Best Origami of 2018 contest is a go! I figured it would be best to wait until January just incase some awesome origami snuck in there at the end of the year. There will be 12 different categories of awards. First we have some basic categories like: The…
So I’ve been thinking of putting together some kind of 2018 End-of-the-Year Origami Awards and I’d like to get some feedback. My initial thought is to come up with some categories such as “the best origami dragons”, “the best origami fish”, “the top most awesome origami models I saw all year”, “the most unique looking…
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…
Japan is known for having some pretty interesting vending machines that sell almost anything you can imagine. Recently one vending machine that appeared in the rural town of Uchiko and has become very popular on the Internet. This vending machine sells a delightful collection of origami models for around 10 yen to 50 yen. That’s about $0.10 to…
Did you know that every year in Africa 35,000 elephants are killed for their tusks? Did you also know that you can help save them simply by folding origami elephants? 96 Elephants has partnered with Origami USA for an origami elephant challenge. Currently theGuinness world record for the largest display of paper elephants is 33,764. What 96…
For several years now a local origami group from Ohio called the Ohio Paper Folders has been putting together little origami kits and donating them to a local hospital. The kits have proven to be be very popular and they’ve received tons of emails and phone calls from grateful parents saying that it helped make…
Anja Markiewicz makes some very, very tiny origami. She lives in Germany and goes by the name “Faltsucht” on Flickr which translates to “folding addicted” because of her love of origami. Coyote, Designed by Román Diaz, folded by Anja Markiewicz Diagrams available in Origami for the Interpreter by Román Diaz Anja discovered origami about 8…