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…
Pretty much anything you can think of can be folded with origami and that definitely includes seashells. Not only are there a lot of fantastic origami seashell designs but with all the amazing colours and patterns of origami paper available you can really make some beautiful and unique looking seashells that might even rival the…
In addition to origami models inspired by Greek mythology and Japanese mythology there’s also some incredible origami inspired by Chinese mythology and culture. The first model this time is this beautiful origami Luosheng, the Goddess of Luo River. Luo Sheng was the daughter of the mythical emperor Mi Xi. She drowned when crossing a river and…
Origami might technically not have originally been invented in Japan but Japan definitely made a huge contribution to the art so much that most people think of Japan when it comes to origami. It stands to reason that there would be some amazing looking origami designs based on Japanaese culture and mythology and that’s what…
Last Updated September 13, 2016 When I started following a lot of origami artists on sites like Flickr I was quite surprised to see that so many people had developed origami models that were based on characters from Japanese anime. This post is a pretty diverse selection of origami anime characters from a really big…
The land of Middle Earth created by J.R.R. Tolkien and made famous through the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit books and later movies is full of fantastic characters and creatures. Therefore it makes sense that the origami community has created amazing works of origami based off of this world and it’s inhabitants. The…
Most traditional origami is done using a single square sheet of paper however certain models require that rectangular sheets of paper with certain proportions are used. Because the paper money of different countries are all different sizes this gives you a bunch of differently shaped rectangles to fold origami out of while also giving you…
I’ve always been a fan of Greek mythology and I was pleasantly surprised to discover that there is a lot of amazing origami that’s right out of Greek myths and stories. The basilisk is called the King of Serpents and is said to be able to kill you just with one look. Other stories say…
Welcome to Part 3 of our video game origami series. In this post we’ll explore two sort of similar type games League of Legends and DOTA 2. We’ll start off with League of Legends with this awesome origami Cho Gath. Cho Gath, Designed and Folded by Timothy Chang Instructions not available Timothy Chang has also…
Welcome to another edition of This Week in Origami featuring some of the best new origami uploaded to the Internet during the past week. Christmas is almost here and it’s bringing with it a few great Christmas origami models. Let’s get started with this cute little Christmas tree scene by Peter Keller. Bascetta Star, Designed…
Star Wars the Force Awakens is just a couple of days away so to celebrate that the wait is almost over here’s more Star Wars themed origami! Morisue Kei has designed a ton of excellent Star Wars models including these Clone Trooper helmets. Clone Trooper Helmet, Designed by Morisue Kei and Folded by Eyal Diagrams…
Welcome to another edition of This Week in Origami where we feature some of the best new origami posted on the Internet during the past week. This week a lot of people decided to fold chickens and roosters. We’ll start with these cute caged chickens by Sebastien Limet. Outdoor, Designed and Folded by Sebastien Limet Instructions…
Star Wars the Force Awakens is pretty much one week away at this point and because I love Star Wars and am quite excited for the new movie I’m going to make a couple of posts about Star Wars origami. There are a lot of awesome Star Wars origami models out there. This post is…
Welcome to the final edition of our Pokemon origami extravaganza. This post covers all the Pokemon from the Diamond/Pearl generation, Black/White and X/Y. If you missed our previous posts here they are: Gotta Fold ‘Em All, Pokemon Origami from the Best Generation Part 1 Gotta Fold ‘Em All, Pokemon Origami from the Best Generation Part 2…
While the Red and Blue generation of Pokemon is the first generation I played and will always have a special nostalgia factor, Gold and Silver I think were my favourite games. They added a lot of new features and some of my all time favourite Pokemon are from this generation. There’s some great origami Pokemon…
There was a lot of really awesome origami this week! Welcome to This Week in Origami where we feature the most awesome new origami that I saw uploaded to the Internet during the past week. We’ll get started with this incredible Wyvern dragon designed by Rango Trung. The entire model is folded from one 60cm x 60cm…
I’m a huge fan of Pokemon so I’ve decided to make a series of posts featuring Pokemon origami because there’s some really awesome Pokemon origami models out there. We covered the first half of the Red/Blue/Green/Yellow last week and this week we’re going to cover Pokemon #079 to #151. First up this time is this awesome…
Last Updated: September 1, 2016 Welcome to another week of This Week in Origami where we feature the most awesome new origami uploaded to the Internet during the past week. There’s lots of interesting stuff this week so lets get started. First up is this excellent tessellation by Peter Keller. Espresso Mortale, Designed and Folded…
I’m a huge fan of Pokemon as well as origami obviously and because of that I’ve decided to combine both of these things into a big multi-part series of posts over the next few weeks covering Pokemon origami. There is a lot of really awesome Pokemon origami out there. This post is going to cover…
Keeping with the Halloween theme here are 13 great evil looking origami devils and demons from a wide array of designers and folders. First up is this incredible demon, daemon or fiend designed by Tong Liu. Demon, Daemon or Fiend, Designed and Folded by Tong Liu Instructions not available Here it is again from…
We’re back with another edition of our weekly origami feature where we post the best new origami that I saw uploaded to the Internet during the past week. If you’re wondering why the website looks different it’s because I changed the design to hopefully fix some of the problems people were reporting. You can learn…
Welcome to another edition of the weekly feature “This Week in Origami” where we feature the most awesome new origami that I saw uploaded to the Internet over the past week. There actually wasn’t too much new stuff this week but there were still some great models so let’s get started. sakuryu(╯3╰) had two excellent…
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…
A lot of origami artists have developed a lot of awesome looking origami dinosaurs. Here are some of my favourites out of the more ferocious looking dinosaurs. Dimetrodon Grandis, Designed and Folded by Tran Trung Hieu Follow Tran Trung Hieu on Flickr or Facebook Instructions not available Original image on Flickr Therizinosaurus, Designed and Folded by…
