2016 was the year of the monkey and last year I kind of struggled to find origami monkeys for a Chinese New Year themed post. This year however is a completely different story. I’d been amassing quite a collection of origami roosters for a while now. I save photos I see and sort them into categories…
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, using tessellations and other techniques to create some amazing-looking masks that follow an ancient Greek or maybe Babylonian style. While most of the images in this post…
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,…
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 two 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…
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…
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…
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╰)…
We’re setting the record for the most puns in a post title with this one! Origami cats are a curious thing. I’ve come across a lot of really fantastic origami lion and tiger models. Even some panthers, leopards and other large cats. House cats on the other hand are much harder to find. I don’t…
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…
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…
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…
This is another origami animal themed post and this time the theme is arctic animals or animals that live in the cold and snow in general. Starting out we have this beautiful polar bear. It’s a fairly simple design but it certainly has a lot of character. Polar Bear, Designed by Giang Dinh and Folded by Ilan…
Animals are definitely the most popular things to fold out of paper and over the years I’ve seen a huge amount of great origami animals. I have a huge list of paper animals to feature so it’s time to start making some animal themed posts. This time we’re featuring woodland animals. These are the types of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
If you’re a fan of super heroes then you’ll definitely want to check out some of the origami in this post and yes, I realize that a lot of these are DC characters but “marvel-ous” was the best pun I could come up with. First up is this great little origami Captain America. Captain America,…
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…
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…
