About
About me
I’m Michał Kosmulski (IPA: /ˈmʲi.xaw kɔˈsmulskʲi/), an origami designer from Poland. I design mostly tessellations and boxes, but I also enjoy trying out something different once in a while. In my models, I value elegance and a clean look, trying to avoid visible grid lines which are a staple of many tessellation designs. I like combining techniques typically used for different kinds of models, for example wet folding with tessellations.
There is more to origami than just the models, though. I am interested in paper, the basic folding material, and this site includes a number of paper reviews in its blog section.
In my day job, I’m a software engineer, which naturally comes with an interest in computational origami. I have written and spoken about AI and origami on a number of occasions.
Since 2021, I have been performing extensive research on Shuzo Fujimoto, an important figure in the history of geometric origami.
I have given many workshops and presentations at origami conventions around the world and online, as well as at commercial events. I was a special guest at the Origami Deutschland (Germany, 2023), Plener Origami (Poland, 2023), and CenterFold (USA, 2024) conventions. Besides origami conventions, my models were exhibited at the Olsztyn Planetarium (2019) and the Embassy of Japan in Poland (2024).
You can learn more about my origami work from the interview I gave to OrigamiUSA in 2019 and from the 2023 interview for Der Falter.
For subjects other than origami, I have a personal homepage at michal.kosmulski.org.
How it started
I started folding around the age of eleven. In late 1999, I learned about modular origami, which became my main origami interest for many years. In 2015, due to a lucky coincidence, I attended my first origami convention and tried tessellations for the first time. They soon became my favorite style, and I started designing lots of new models. Around this time I also started sharing my work not only on my web page but also on social media.
About this page
My origami web page has been online since 2004. Coincidentally, this is also the year I got my first digital camera. In early 2021 I finally published a new version, with lots of new content and updated technology.
Current version is built using Jekyll and Minimal Mistakes theme. It makes extensive use of Jekyll Picture Tag (JPT) and a few other Jekyll plugins.
All models presented on this site were folded by me unless noted otherwise. Images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Please contact me if you are interested in using them on other terms.