Zubat

30 Absol-utely Astonishing Origami Pokemon Because You Asked Furret

With the recent release of Pokemon Sun and Moon I think it’s time for another origami Pokemon post. Since our last round of Pokemon posts I’ve found a bunch more awesome looking paper Pokemon that deserve to be featured. We’ll star off this post with an awesome Gengar design by sakuryu(╯3╰). Gengar, Designed and Folded by sakuryu(╯3╰)…

Dragon

Get Fired Up for these Incredible Origami Dragons

Origami dragons are still probably my favourite thing and there’s no shortage of incredible origami dragons out there. Here’s another post featuring another round of some of my favourite origami dragons. First up is one of the most famous and coolest looking origami dragons by Satoshi Kamiya. Ancient Dragon, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded…

Smilodon

Fantastic Non-Dinosaur Prehistoric Origami Creatures

We’ve done several posts featuring origami dinosaurs but this time we’re going to feature different prehistoric animals. I’m not entirely sure how an Archaeopteryx is classified anymore but I think it counts for this post and Satoshi Kamiya has designed a fantastic origami version. Archaeopteryx, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by 簡單的度過-2 Crease pattern available in…

Baymax

Pixar, Disney and other Animated Characters in Origami Form

Surprisingly enough there’s a lot of great origami inspired from Pixar, Disney, Dreamworks and other animated movies. Pretty much anything that people like can be used to inspire origami artists. We’ll start this post off with a pair of origami Minions and each of them is folded from one sheet of paper. Minions, Designed and Folded by…

Winged Elephant

Fascinating and Slightly Bizarre Origami Hybrid Creatures

An interesting thing that I’ve noticed some origami artists doing is designing models that are half one animal and half another ending up with a strange sort of hybrid creature. I’ve reached a point where I’ve seen enough of these that I decided to make a post about them. Eric Vigier is a master of…

Dancing Crane

24 Beautiful Migratory Origami Birds for the #OrigamiMigration

The World Wildlife Fund in Spain is currently running an origami challenge in order to help protect migratory birds in Spain. Doñana National Park in Spain is one of the most important sites for migratory birds in all of Europe. Every year six million birds visit this park and they rely on its wetland to…

Unicorn

Unbelievably Unforgettable and Unique Origami Unicorns

I was collecting origami unicorns for a sort of general mythological creature themed post but ended up with enough of them with enough different designs that  I figured they deserved their own entire post. First up is an elegant unicorn design by Andrey Ermakov. Unicorn, Designed by Andrey Ermakov and Folded by AbrahamMardini Diagrams available in Olympiad 2014…

Virgo

If You’re Impressed with this Zodiac Origami then that’s a Good Sign

During my origami related research I’ve come across some pretty cool designs for some Zodiac themed models. There are a lot of cool Capricorn designs as well as great designs for some of the other more uniquely designed signs like Aquarius, Virgo, Sagittarius and Gemini. I decided to collect these together and put together a…

Koi

You Should Definitely Give a Carp about these Beautiful Origami Koi

I’ve always been a fan of origami koi. There are only a few major koi designs but they’re always great and the koi people fold are always really beautiful. Often people use really great paper or make collections of rainbow coloured koi and do lots of other neat things with them. Our first image is…

T-Rex

Some of the Best Origami I’ve Seen in 65 Million Years

Dinosaurs are a very popular topic in origami. We’ve posted about them before and we’re probably not going to run out of awesome dinosaur origami in a very long time so here’s another post full of incredible origami dinosaurs. Tran Trung Hieu is a master at designing origami dinosaurs so we’ll open this post with this…

Shoe

If You Don’t Love These Origami Shoes then You Probably Have no Sole

When doing research for this website I was surprised to find a ton of really awesome origami shoes. Here’s a great basketball shoe design from Sipho Mabona. Onitsuka Tiger Basketball Shoe, Designed by Sipho Mabona and Folded by nyanko sensei Diagrams available in the Origami Tanteidan 15th Convention book   Here’s a couple of pairs of cute little…

Violin

Take a Minuet to Look at this Amazing Music-Themed Origami

You can fold pretty much anything you can imagine from paper and that includes things like musical instruments, musicians and other music themed things. There’s actually a pretty surprising amount of awesome music themed models and we’ll be covering a lot of it in this post starting with this paper bass. The entire thing is folded from…

Shinku

21 More Anime Characters Brought to Life Through Origami

There’s a ton of amazing origami versions of anime characters and other various things from Japanese anime and manga. We already posted about this before and we’re doing it again! There will probably be at least 2 or 3 more posts in the future since there’s such a large amount of anime-themed origami. I never…

Lizard

Iguana Fold these 28 Awesome Origami Lizards

There are a lot of really awesome origami lizards out there including one of my all time favourite origami models, Gen Hagiwara’s Frilled Neck Lizard. Hopefully one day I’ll be able to fold it. This post is a collection of the best origami lizards (not including snakes, that’ll be another post) that I’ve seen. You’ll also…

Youtube

27 Great YouTube Channels with Origami Video Tutorials

Video tutorials are a great way to learn how to fold origami. Unlike printed diagrams, you can actually see the intermediate steps and how all the folds work. There are a ton of origami video tutorials on YouTube that are of varying quality. Also, sometimes, the person who made the video has permission from the…

Phoenix

Positively Phenomenal Paper Phoenixes

The phoenix is a mythological creature that you see appear in Egyptian, Greek and Chinese mythology. Rather than including some origami phoenixes in posts about those topics I decided to create a new post completely dedicated to the origami phoenix since there’s surprisingly a lot of really awesome designs. When it comes to origami phoenixes…

Apple

Delicious Looking Origami Food that You Can Almost Taste

Surprisingly enough there are a lot of origami food models and a lot of them are actually quite amazing. You don’t normally think about food when it comes to origami, it’s usually things like animals or shapes but this just goes to show you that if you’re a good enough designer you can fold literally…