30-60-90-Degree Star (red and white)
Another 30-60-90° Star folded from triangles left over from cutting hexagons from rectangles.
Kami
Kami is the classic origami paper and the one most often recommended for simple models. Since one side is colored and the other white, this paper can be used for models with color-change technique. Some variants, called duo have both sides colored, but the paper inside is the same. I encourage you to read Ilan Garibi’s review to find out more about this paper.
Hex Twist Star (CFW 120) from Harmony paper
A small fold of Shuzo Fujimoto’s CFW 120 star, one of my favorites, from Harmony paper.
Pinwheel Coaster
A simple coaster that starts from a square twist and has a color change.
Quartered Box
A very simple box whose lid is divided into four identical squares. It is basically the back side of a single molecule of Four-Sink Base Tessellation plus wa...
Star with Hexagonal Patch
A simple star with color change. I derived it from Shuzo Fujimoto’s Star CFW 367 by folding from a hexagon rather than a triangle and opening up the back to ...
Star Moira (variant D)
A variant of Star Moira, in which the rays are completely hidden, so the star looks like a simple disk. The oblique view shows some more interesting structur...
Star Moira (variant C)
A Star Moira variant derived from variant B.
Star Moira (variant B)
This variant of Star Moira is stronger than variant A and looks like the blade of a buzz saw.
30-60-90-Degree Star (variant B)
A variant of 30-60-90° Star, just like the base variant, folded from triangles left over when cutting hexagons from rectangles.
Star a la Fujimoto II
Another model using my Color-Wrap Rays technique together with Shuzo Fujimoto’s Scissors (CFW 87) molecule.
Traditional Bracelet with Squares
A traditional bracelet decorated with a pattern of squares formed by color change. This model is very simple to fold, and depending on the number of iteratio...
Star Moira (variant A)
It’s been a while since I last worked on modular stars, but I designed this one, along with a few variants, at the end of 2023. Variant A is rather fragile a...
Handle with Scissors (CFW 136)
Another star by Shuzo Fujimoto which is not even depicted in his books, just mentioned in text. It uses rays from Handle (CFW 133), but the tessellation mole...
Gear (CFW 179) (hexagonal)
This star by Shuzo Fujimoto has flat-capped teeth rather than sharp rays. Back side has a color change. It is possible to fold this design from a hexagon (as...
Cookie Cutter
This simple model looks like a cookie cutter, and if made with some stiff enough material (thick metal foil perhaps), could probably actually be used as one....
Handle with Thorn (CFW 135)
This star uses the same rays as Handle (CFW 133), but the tessellation molecule in the center is that of Thorn (CFW 86).
Star with Unicursal Hexagram
This star is decorated with a molecule of my Unicursal Hexagram Tessellation. The color-change rays are the same as in Star a la Fujimoto.
Handle with Hemp Leaf (CFW 137)
This star by Shuzo Fujimoto uses the same rays as his Handle (CFW 133) but the tessellation molecule is that of Hemp Leaf (CFW 88), same as independently cre...
Frog Star
The outline of this star is made using the same technique as various Star a la Fujimoto variants. The decoration in the center is a tessellation molecule tha...
Star Lethe
I think this is the last star from my 2019 modular star craze that I haven’t published before.
Daffodil
This design is derived from Star a la Fujimoto III. Central part is raised, and has a color change, just as many kinds of real daffodil. In this fold I think...
Spiked Icosahedron (WASS with color change)
A spiked icosahedron made from my Weird Asymmetric Sonobe (WASS) unit variant with color change. Since the color change’s symmetry is not aligned with the sy...
Zinnia (CFW 196)
This star by Shuzo Fujimoto exhibits hexagonal symmetry and a color change. Basic Zinnia is CFW 196 while CFW 187 is a variant with differently shaped petals...
Star a la Fujimoto III (striped paper)
Star a la Fujimoto III looks particularly interesting when folded from paper whose pattern has hexagonal symmetry.
Star a la Fujimoto III (variant B)
In this variant, the rays are layered “one on top of the other” rather than “every other one in a different layer”. This changes the appearance of the front ...
Elephant
This elephant by Fumiaki Kawahata is very cute (I think I’ve seen it getting called Baby Elephant). I folded this one at a workshop given by Margret Bach dur...
Star Ioke
A simple modular star I designed in 2019. I used paper with a heavy pattern which unfortunately masks the crease lines to such degree that practically only t...
Spiked Icosahedra from Three Sonobe Variants
Comparison of three related Sonobe variants of mine, from left to right: Paper Airplane Sonobe, Checkered Sonobe, and Bow-Tie Sonobe. Each icosahedron is fol...
Tray
I designed and folded this simple origami tray in 2017. Due to the way the bottom is structured, it could also be used as a picture frame. The tray is square...
Winter Cap with Crane
This winter hat features a crane on the forehead and color-change “fur” around the face. You can tie the side panels below the chin, ushanka-style, or leave ...
Star a la Fujimoto III
This model belongs to a series inspired by the work of Shuzo Fujimoto. The outer edge is made with a general technique I devised that can be combined with di...
Hedgehog Star III (with proper color change)
Since today is Polish Independence Day, I’m publishing a picture of my Hedgehog Star III folded in Polish national colors. This work uses a proper color chan...
Snail
Last Friday (2022-08-19) I was folding with a bunch of friends and someone asked if I could fold a snail. I didn’t know any such model by heart, so I improvi...
Spiked Icosahedron (Checkered Sonobe)
Spiked icosahedron, folded from my Checkered Sonobe units.
Hedgehog Star II (proper color change)
Another fold of Hedgehog Star II, once again in Ukrainian national colors since symbolizing Ukraine’s resistance in the face of Russia’s aggression was the r...
Apple (CFW 202)
Shuzo Fujimoto’s Apple is one of his best-known designs. Though one of his relatively few figurative models, structurally it is deeply geometric, being based...
Star Glycon
A modular star I designed in early 2020. There are several ways in which the units can be connected, of which the one shown here is most stable. Since the la...
Hydrangea Basic Form A variant 1
A very simple variant of Fujimoto’s Hydrangea, which does not seem to be popular among folders so far.
In Ukrainian Steppe
The steppes of Ukraine with their endless open spaces, occasionally lined by kurgans, have long been considered a place full of mystery, mood, adventure, and...
Flag of Ukraine
The Flag of Ukraine — a single fold on a square of yellow-blue duo color Kami paper. This way of folding national flags consisting of two parallel stripes is...
Star Ananke (variant E)
This variant of Star Ananke has additional little rays in the center.
Dodecagonal Kaleidocycle
This origami kaleidocycle is an example of a flexible polyhedron, and an action origami model. You can see the cycling action in this video by Ed Holmes, in ...
Sawtooth Box (variant D)
Yet another variant of Sawtooth Box. This vaariant is almost identical to Tilted Square Box by Tung Ken Lam.
Star Eris 1.1 (variant B)
A variant of Star Eris with modified center.
Star Eris 1.1 (variant A)
Yet another simple design from the time I got into modular origami stars. Unpublished version 1.0 used a less effective lock between the units.
Star Deimos (variant D)
In this variant of Star Deimos, units are modified so that there is no pocket in the top visible layer. This requires a change to the locking mechanism and r...
Python Logo II
Another approach to designing an origami Python logo. This model is folded from two separate sheets, which allows the snakes to be different colors and have ...
30-60-90-Degree Star
The units from which this star is made, are folded from triangles whose angles are 30°, 60° and 90°. Such triangles are created when you cut a hexagon from a...
Star Deimos (variant C)
A variant of Star Deimos in which the rays are asymmetrically narrowed on one side, giving the star’s outline the appearance of a saw blade.
Python Logo I
When I published my origami Scala Logo a while ago, user slinkousart asked if I could design a Python logo as well. Turns out, I could, and I even designed t...
Star Deimos (variant B)
Variant B of Star Deimos differs from the base shape only by a single fold which reveals more of the white side of the paper in the center.
Spiked Icosahedron (Bow-Tie Sonobe)
Spiked icosahedron, folded from my Bow-Tie Sonobe units (also independently designed by tomoko07011209 around the same time).
Scala Logo II
This is my second approach to designing a Scala logo. With different colors, it could also be interpreted as Ericsson logo.
Carrot
Another shaping variant of Ice Cream model, this time resembling a carrot. Using white+green color combination instead of orange+green will get you parsley i...
Ladybug 1.1
When Sara Adams prepared a videotutorial for my Ladybug, she came up with a few improvements which not only gave the model convenient reference points for fo...
Sawtooth Box (variant C)
This variant of Sawtooth Box looks most similar of all my variants to the designs of two authors who had an almost identical idea before me (see the main var...
Sawtooth Box (variant B)
Another variant of Sawtooth Box. It differs from variant A by having the triangular flaps locked to the walls of the box. This creates a nice diagonal color-...
Sawtooth Box (variant A)
This is a simple box with a color change. I designed several variants (posts coming up), most with the triangular flaps (“saw teeth”) locked onto the walls. ...
Two-Unit Cube II
Another simple model in which a cube is built from just two units. See also: Two-Unit Cube I.
Bed
A simple origami bed with color-change for the bedsheet. My design from late 2019.
Spiked Icosahedron (Paper Airplane Sonobe)
Spiked Icosahedron made from my new Sonobe variant, Paper Airplane Sonobe. When you look at an individual unit before assembling the model, you can spot a re...
Scala Logo I
Logo of Scala programming language in origami. Folded from a single 2:1 rectangle of Kami.
Fractal Mountains Reflecting in a Lake
A minimalistic self-similar origami design, in the style of Edward Mistretta’s recent works.
Heart Bracelet II and Traditional Bracelet Comparison
My Heart Bracelet II alongside the Traditional Bracelet with Squares from which it is derived.
Heart Bracelet II
I designed this simple bracelet with hearts based on a traditional bracelet that has a decoration of squares (check out a comparison of these models).
Two-Unit Cube I
This is a very simple modular origami design I recently came up with when revisiting my Oxi unit from a few years ago. The unit has folded edges on one side ...
Star Chaos (variant B)
Variant B of my Star Chaos. Modular origami model from 6 units. Duo paper courtesy of a friend.
Torch
This origami torch is basically the same model as Ice Cream, just with different colors and shaping.
Star Deimos
Star Deimos, another of my simple modular origami star designs. There is a color change in the center of the model, and the six-fold symmetry allows for seve...
Star Boreas
An octagonal modular star. Own design, folded from Harmony paper.
Star Ananke (variant F)
This variant of Star Ananke features an additional hexagon in the center of the model. It’s a small change in the individual unit, but it makes connecting th...
Star Ananke (variant D)
This is the front of Star Ananke, variant D. The basic variant (A) was designed independently by myself and by others before me: Wei Fu, and Robin Glynn (wit...
Triangle Recursion
This is the simplest recursive/fractal model I have come up with so far. It is folded from a square. Due to the very high shrinkage factor, which is almost 4...
Star Ananke (variant C)
A modification (variant C) of Star Ananke. The basic variant (A) was designed independently by myself and by others before me: Wei Fu, and Robin Glynn (with ...
Star Chaos (variant A)
Modular origami stars are quite addictive: I set out to create just one simple model for a workshop and before I knew it, I had about a dozen different desig...
Star Ananke (variant B)
A modification (variant B) of Star Ananke. The basic variant (A) was designed independently by myself and by others before me: Wei Fu, and Robin Glynn (with ...
Star Ananke (variant A)
As part of preparations for my presentation and workshop on contemporary origami, I set out to design a simple modular star which I could teach in the worksh...
Superpuss
Oriol Esteve taught this fun model of his during one of Origami Connect classes.
Ladybug
I haven’t had time to prepare any current-year-related model this year, so here’s an older model of a completely different kind: a simple ladybug with color ...
Woven Square Box
A simple box lid derived from a modified Propellers Tessellation molecule.
Origami Free-Form Box: Poland
Today, on November 11th, Poland is celebrating 100 years of regaining independence. This origami box which represents an outline of Poland is an example of t...
Crane with Colored Wings
This is a variation of the traditional origami crane which I recently designed: there is a color change giving the wings a different color than the body. I h...
Fat Penguin
Once in a while, I design something other than a tessellation or a box. This geometric penguin model came about during Outdoor Origami Meeting as I was playi...
Box with Leaves (tip-to-tip, 32 divisions)
A fold of my Box with Leaves (tip-to-tip) where the leaves were folded using a 32-division pleat instead of the usual 16 divisions. I taught this model at Ou...
Box with Leaves (tip-to-tip) cleaner fold
A new, cleaner fold of my Box with Leaves (tip-to-tip). I taught this model at Outdoor Origami Meeting in Kraków, Poland, this year.
Houstonia Box
This origami box represents a flower of the genus Houstonia, also known as bluets or Quaker Ladies. Some species, in particular Houstonia Caerulea have four ...
Kropka Star
Kropka Star, designed by Natalia Guzowska. I had the pleasure of test folding this model from soon-to-be-published diagrams. Paper with hexagonal symmetry pa...
Depressed Propeller Box
A new box design based on Propellers Tessellation molecule. The molecule is depressed, meaning that the layers of paper forming the sides of the box are abov...
Framed Two-in-One Flower with Color Change
A slight modification of my Framed Two-in-One Flower, with a color-changed frame. The colour change is very simple: basically, in the first step the paper is...
Hydrangea Cube (Harmony paper)
Shuzo Fujimoto’s Hydrangea can be used as a modular unit. The method was first published by Meenakshi Mukerji and then reinvented independently by myself. I ...
Box with Pajarita (color change)
A color-change version of my Box with Pajarita v. 1.1. In contrast to folds using harmony paper, here the different color of the Pajarita is the result of an...
Lelum Cube
A modified version of Lelum Polelum Cube where one out of each pair of flaps is hidden.
Box with Ribbon Bow (diagonal)
A box with a ribbon bow, constructed using a molecule of my Sunflower Tessellation and with color change. This is a variant where the ribbon runs along the d...
Lelum Polelum Cube
A Cube from a unit I recently designed and later learned that was earlier designed independently by Saburo Kase. More details in the unit’s description.
Box with Pajarita 1.1
This is version 1.1 of my Box with Pajarita. In this improved version, I took advantage of the fact that the box only has one molecule, and so I could get ri...
Hydrangea with Leaves
A color-change variant of Shuzo Fujimoto’s Hydrangea, designed by Meenakshi Mukerji. Test fold based on unpublished diagrams, kindly provided by Meenakshi [u...
Stacked Hearts
Stacked molecules of my Hearts Tessellation. This model is a fractal, and you can go on stacking heart upon heart indefinitely, each twice as large as the pr...
Box with Pajarita
Box with a single molecule of my Pajarita Tessellation. Folded from Harmony paper which allowed the Pajarita to better stand out from the background.
Penguin
See also the Penguin Attack composition which uses this model.
Penguin Attack
A giant penguin (designed by Blanka Pentela (Blunek) ascending King-Kong style the Palace of Culture and Science. This 250 m tall building was erected in War...
Palace of Culture
The Palace of Culture and Science (Pałac Kultury i Nauki) is a 250 m tall building which was erected in Warsaw in the 1950’s as a sign of Soviet domination. ...
Elephant Bookmark
An origami bookmark (two pieces folded from different papers) featuring an elephant motif. Other animals’ heads can be designed in a similar fashion. This mo...
Aton Kusudama
Aton Kusudama, variant A (many more are possible). Spiked icosahedron made from 30 units. Designed and folded by me. More variants are possible, some with in...
Box with Super-Ninja Star Tessellation — Comparison of Variants
These boxes are decorated with a molecule of Super-Ninja Star Tessellation which is an extension of Ninja Star Tessellation. The super-variant has larger bla...
Box with Super-Ninja Star Tessellation (Thin Lid Variant)
A box decorated with a molecule of Super-Ninja Star Tessellation which is an extension of Ninja Star Tessellation. The super-variant has larger blades.
Box with Super-Ninja Star Tessellation (Thick Lid Variant)
A box decorated with a molecule of Super-Ninja Star Tessellation which is an extension of Ninja Star Tessellation. The super-variant has larger blades.
Spiked Icosahedron (StEM face variant) from Kami
This kusudama is a refold of an old spiked icosahedron model of mine with nicer paper. It’s a modular design which uses 30 units.
Box with Twisted Bird Base Tessellation Molecule
Box with a single molecule of my Twisted Bird Base Tessellation.
Box with Walled Garden Tessellation Molecule
Another tessellation disguised as a box so that I can get away with folding just a single molecule, but I do plan to fold a full-fledged tessellation some ti...
Thin-Walled Box
This box has just one layer of paper in most places, so it uses paper effectively, allowing you to make a large box with given sheet size.
Maltese Cross Framed
A single molecule of my Maltese Cross Tessellation, which is closely related to the Cross Pattee Tessellation presented in the Coat of Arms of Rzeszów model....
Modular Picture Frame
A modular version of this picture frame. Folded from 4 units, each from 1:2 paper.
Fir Cone / Christmas Ornament
These fir cones make nice Christmas tree decorations. Designed by myself, they are based on the pleated part of Super Pineapple Tessellation.