Article in The Paper: Preserving the legacy of famous paperfolders — and yours
I just received my copy of The Paper issue 147 (Spring 2025) which features my article titled “Preserving the legacy of famou...
Origami
Posts about origami in general, including folding and design techniques, tools, etc. There are 57 entries in this category.
Shuzo Fujimoto’s 102nd Birthday
Shuzo Fujimoto in front of his home in Sasayama, Japan, with (left to right) Seiji Nishikawa and Koichi Tateishi. Pictu...
Origami Matchboxes
When I posted the tissues with an origami-themed package back in February, Jannie van Schuylenburg messaged me saying she ha...
Shuzo Fujimoto’s 9th Death Anniversary
Picture from 10th CDO origami convention in Verona, 1988. Left to right: Fumiaki Fujita, Eiki Momotani, Tomoko Fuse, Er...
Announcement: Blanket Permission to Fold and Teach Shuzo Fujimoto’s Models (Non-Commercial Use only)
Hands holding Shuzo Fujimoto’s Hydrangea Since some folders have recently been asking me how to get permission to...
A Tribute to Meenakshi Mukerji
Books by Meenakshi Mukerji and Spiked Rhombicosidodecahedron from SSIT module designed by her I never met Meenaks...
Preserving Fujimoto’s Origami Models
Recently, I was contacted by Fuhyi Kuo, a conservator also interested in origami. She had learned from someone who attended t...
Origami AI Revisited
In early 2023, I presented my idea for a roadmap of using AI in origami, so I thought I’d revisit the topic briefly now and s...
Origami at Polin (Museum of the History of Polish Jews)
During a visit to Polin (Museum of the History of Polish Jews) this fall, I noticed the section dedicated to kids’ toys also presented some paperfolding. The...
Tissues with Origami Boat Motif
Adding to my collection of random items with origami motif is this package of tissues featuring a traditional paper boat.
Shuzo Fujimoto’s 101st Birthday
Shuzo Fujimoto (sitting) with editors of his books for Project F, standing from left to right: Taiko Niwa, Satoko Saito...
Help needed with Japanese text
I’m looking for help with understanding the above fragment from Shuzo Fujimoto’s Twist Origami 1 book, page 8. You can view the complete page and the complet...
Comparison of used and new bone folder
Here, you can see a comparison of a teflon bone folder I’ve been using for seven years at the time the picture was taken, and an identical new one. Of all th...
Two Hexagons from A4 Minus Square — Improved Method
A while ago I published a post on cutting two hexagons from the rectangle left over after cutting a square from an A4 sheet. For some strange reason, in that...
Two Kinds of Origami Models
Groom and Bride compared to Box with Woven Triangles XVIII I recently realized that without planning it that way,...
Models folded by Shuzo Fujimoto himself
A sample of models designed and folded by Shuzo Fujimoto I received from Roberto Morassi I only mentioned them in...
A Tribute to Artur Biernacki
Elephant, Chameleon, and Butterfly designed and folded by Artur Biernacki; arrangement and photograph mine Artur ...
Flickr, Instagram, and the Free Lunch
The good thing about serious problems is they don’t go away easily, and you can keep writing about them for a long time. This...
Paperweight in the Shape of an Origami Elephant
A few years ago, I bought the pictured object, which is in the shape of an origami elephant, and have been using it as a pape...
Origami AI — a roadmap
In this article, I present a roadmap for applying AI to the field of origami. Starting from what is possible today, I suggest how existing building blocks co...
Folding Paper with ChatGPT
Everyone and their dog are posting about ChatGPT, the newest AI language model by OpenAI, so I decided to check some origami-related prompts. While I am impr...
Shuzo Fujimoto’s 100th Birthday
Shuzo Fujimoto teaching at the Italian Origami Convention on 1988-11-01. Image from NOA magazine 166 (1989), received c...
Fujimoto’s Five Books are now Public Domain
Shuzo Fujimoto’s five self-published books: Solid Origami, Invitation to Creative Playing with Origami, and Twist Origa...
Shuzo Fujimoto Online Event
Shuzo Fujimoto online event banner, images by Ilan Garibi, Michał Kosmulski and Robert Lang On Saturday, October ...
Growing Up as an Origamist
Me, precreasing Ridges Corrugation (32×32) in early 2018 I’ve been doing lots of origami lately, but very little ...
Shuzo Fujimoto’s Death Anniversary
Shuzo Fujimoto at an origami event for kids on 1990-10-20. Image courtesy of Hitoshi Fujimoto. Today, July 28th, ...
Making plaster casts of origami tessellations
For some time now, I have been thinking of origami tessellations as a kind of bas-relief, executed in a very particular way. This led me to the idea of combi...
Oripa on 4k Screen on Linux
Comparison of Oripa with 1x and 2x scaling When Oripa is run on a 4k / HiDPI screen, all GUI elements may appear ...
How Good is DALL-E Mini at Origami?
Not very good, but it fails in interesting ways.
Announcing CFW — a Catalog of Fujimoto’s Works
Looking at Fujimoto’s Daffodil I recently posted, you may have noticed that I added “CFW 100” to the model’s name. CFW stands...
Shuzo Fujimoto’s Biography
Shuzo Fujimoto at a table, with some models, in 2006 (image courtesy of Robert Lang) In an earlier post, I mentio...
Counting Sheets is More Complex than it Seems — On Origami Classification, Part II
In Part II of the series, I explore classification of origami models with regard to the number of sheets, and find out there is more to it than just single-s...
Celebrating Shuzo Fujimoto
Shuzo Fujimoto in 2006 (image courtesy of Robert Lang) 2022 will mark the 100th anniversary of Shuzo Fujimoto’s b...
Thicket, not tree — On Origami Classification, Part I
In this blog post, the first in a planned series, I analyze some common approaches to origami classification, point out their weaknesses, and outline what a ...
Paper Grain in Origami
Paper is made from plant fibers. When hand-made paper is laid using a sieve, a single sheet is produced at a time. Manual movements of the sieve cause the fi...
Making Sense of the Tsuru
I experienced a eureka moment when editing a series of pictur...
Naming Origami Models
In this blogpost I suggest new terms useful for the discussion of origami model naming, and present naming conventions from different artists, including myse...
The key to a great online convention (OrigamiUSA origami convention 2021)
OrigamiUSA space withing Gather, recreating the physical location in which the convention usually took place Duri...
Joisel Award 2021
Until May 31st, 2021, you can nominate candidates for this year’s Joisel Award. If you noticed any outstanding origami this y...
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Building a Personal [Origami] Website in 2021
This post sparked quite a discussion on hackernews. You can read all the interesting comments in this thread. Thanks to everyone who contributed.
Coloring Paper with Inkjet Printer
When folding Stars and Squares, I decided to try coloring Elephant Hide paper by just printing it over with a uniform color u...
Two Hexagons from A4 Minus Square
Have you noticed that the strip which stays behind when you cut a square from an A4 sheet of paper, is just the right size for cutting two small hexagons?
Origami-Styled Wisent Logo on Trash Cans
Origami-styled wisent logo of Ekoland company displayed on trash cans As a follow-up to trash cans with an origam...
Origami-Styled Elephant Logo on Trash Cans
Origami-styled elephant logo of Kom-Eko company displayed on trash cans Kom-Eko, a waste management company in Lu...
How I Precrease Paper for Tessellations
The image in this post shows a precreased sheet of paper, which upon collapsing folds to Triangles Tessellation. Usually, mod...
Origami in Google Doodle for Children’s Day
Google Doodle for yesterday, Children’s Day 2020 (2020-06-01), as displayed in Poland, included a number of origami-like shapes. Google Doodle is the customi...
Origami short film from 1962 („Oczekiwanie” — “Awaiting”)
Scene from „Oczekiwanie” (“Awaiting”), a 1962 Polish short film featuring origami. Fair use of a single frame is assume...
Designing precrease patterns for clean folding of tessellations and boxes
At CfC (Conference for Creators) 2 which took place in Zaragoza, Spain, in 2020, I gave a presentation titled Designing precr...
Pajarita Monument in Zaragoza
This monument to the origami Pajarita advertises EMOZ, one of the few origami museums in the world. Both the monument and the...
Bench with origami Pajarita in Huesca
It’s been a week already since CfC 2, the origami Conference for Creators. It was very inspiring to meet so many great design...
Paper Treatment for Folding Origami from an Old Calendar
I folded Star Ananke (D) from an angel-themed calendar.
Dollar Bill Hare Used on Billboards without Permission
I spotted big advertising billboards using origami Dollar Bil...
Envelopener usage and maintenance
Envelope openers are very useful tools for origami folders and other craftspeople, but they do have a number of quirks. After answering a question about gett...
Using an inkjet printer to make precreasing of CPs easier
An inkjet printer (Public Domain image from Open Clipart project) Here is a trick I’ve used a number of times whe...
Introducing Building Block Units
My article, Introducing Building Block Units, was published in The Fold. This text describes my Building Block Units (BBUs) a...
Fading colors — degradation of paper over time
In July 2015 I decided to get rid of some old origami models which had faded beyond looking nice. On these Sonobe units retrieved from some modular assembly,...
Prior art found for some units
After searching for prior art of origami units I designed, I found out that two had been published before by others. Added appropriate credit on Swallowtail ...