A review of a well-designed guide to creating curved tessellations.
Origami artist Jiahui Li offers an instructional video for one of his new creations, a pancake octopus.
An admirer of snakes designed this 84-step rattler that has good sculptural possibilities.
A new brooch, along with directions for cutting a hexagon from a square.
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Fold Nymphaea (waterlily) and variation from an octagon, a decagon or a dodecagon. It is a stylized representation of the flower sitting on a lily pad. Floral/foliage duo paper brings out the best in the design.
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A cartoonish elf with a cleanly finished front and back.
Adding an extra head to the tradition crane with the help of TreeMaker software.
A framework for creating new tessellations from a basic starting point. Crease patterns can be downloaded as a PDF booklet.
Joseph Hwang’s third book focuses on the sea.
Try your hand at these two designs from "Marine Origami."
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A bunny to customize in your own style.
The author recaptures a tiny piece of childhood with this design.
Stand aside pumpkins! This Halloween design is for folders who want to make something truly scary.
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An octagonal bowl with a scalloped rim and ornate base.
Two heptagonal stars with a slightly concave profile.
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Fold a delightful Sand Dollar from a square sheet of paper.
If you like box pleating, crease patterns and cartoons, this model is for you.
A creature from Greek mythology with pleated detailing.
Musings on art, kitsch, mathematics and the creative process. And lots of diagrams.
The second part of an article about Krystyna Burczyk’s creative process with more diagrams to download.
A “Hobbit”-worthy dragon to fold and a discourse on various blintzed bases and their usefulness.
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A sitting dog based on an earlier elephant design by the creator.
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An Icosidodecahedron with sunken triangular faces based on a simple unit. Made from 12 pentagons, it is definitely meant for people who like challenges!
An innovative book of color-change models that exploits the technique to the fullest.
As many as a third of the animal species in the world are beetles, and here’s a new one that you can fold.
More a textbook than a typical book of diagrams, “Six Simple Twists” is a comprehensive guide for tessellation lovers.
A one-piece star that gives the appearance of being made of multiple diamonds. If you like tessellations (or not), this should be fun to fold.
Most of the models in this book start from classic bases, but they go in new directions from there, and they look more complex than they actually are.
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The inspiration for this origami design was the face of Lord Ganesha (the Indian elephant god). Ganesha is also known as Ekadanta, which means The One-Tusked.
Clover Heart 4 is the fourth and final model in a series of Clover Hearts published in consecutive issues of The Fold. This one has the proportionately smallest clover.
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This hummingbird starts with a stretched bird base and offers many sculptural possibilities.
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This design of an elephant in motion represents the animal’s massiveness and power.
A tato — created to honor healthcare workers — that can be transformed into a twist box with a few additional folds.
Diagrams for a marvelously natural-looking Sand Dollar folded from a circle.
Learn to fold Clover Heart 3, the third in a series of designs by Meenakshi Mukerji.
A heart and home model that’s more challenging than most, accompanied by an instructional video.
Another heart with a house inside. This version even has a chimney.
Learn how to fold a heart decorated with a clover. Or take it a step further and fold the clover into
Shuzo Fujimoto’s hydrangea.
A crease pattern and notes for folding a delightful heart with a color-change clover. Designed by Meenakshi Mukerji, it's a confluence of the works of Shuzo Fujimoto and Francis Ow. The clover can be extended into Fujimoto's Hydrangea as well as most designs that start with a four-sink base or crossed box pleat.
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A harmful hazard warning sign that makes good use of the color change technique.
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A Fujimoto-inspired poinsettia with leaves looks great in red-green duo paper, but you could use green paper with a white back to fold a rare white poinsettia.
These four stars from one basic design were created to pop in an envelope and mail.
Yara Yagi presents us with a detailed review of Ilan Garibi's latest book, Origami Tessellations for Everyone.
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Diagrams for four cleverly nested hearts with color change. From a single square sheet of duo paper.
I present to you one of the top origami artists in Israel. Ben has been designing for the last seven years, and the ease of his approach will make you say "I can do it as well!". As always, nine questions, nine images, and a Daffodil diagram!
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Diagrams/CP for a delightful triple heart with color change from a 2:1 rectangle of duo paper.
To welcome the Year of the Pig/Boar (February 5, 2019), Xiaoxian Huang created a Piggy's Face for us.
Marc Vigo, the fourth musketeer of the OAS (Origami Always Succeed) group, is offering his design of a Porc Senglar (wild boar) in celebration of Lunar New Year of the Pig/Boar.
The title is "Counting Wings", but the diagrams are for a dog by Beth Johnson to usher out the Year of the Dog. Read the lovely text to understand the meaning of the title and to gain some insight into Beth's design approach.
As part of our year-long celebration of the Year of the Dog, Giang Dinh contributes a model of a dreaming dog.
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Diagrams for a beautiful fractal flower from a hexagon with color change. A very advance design for someone who has only been folding since 2013.
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Here is Distorta2016 by Alessandro Beber.
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Wearable headgear inspired by Pope Francis' 2015 Washington, DC visit.
Here are some crease patterns for a number of Alessandro Beber's beautiful high intermediate creations.
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For the many people who have been asking, here are the diagrams for Beth Johnson's simpler acorn along with how she arrived at version 4 – and in time for Halloween.
Here are diagrams for a Phoenix starting with a bird base from a new creator, Dustin Westley.
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Xiaoxian Huang presents us with diagrams for folding duo-colored swans.
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For those of you wanting to fold a dragon with two jaws and four horns, here are the diagrams by Max d'Anger.
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"Telephone origami," taught by verbal directions alone, is a long-lost art. One of the best examples is Alice Gray's rendering of Fred Rohm's iconic Star of David moneyfold, originally published in The Origamian.
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For all Star Wars fans, here are diagrams for Jar Jar Binks' head, designed by Lisa Nguyen.
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Diagrams for Bettens' Toledo Twist Star, an octagonal model folded from a square.
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Diagrams for a 4-petal Flower designed by Milind Oka.
A book review for the book in the Passion Origami series, "Spirits of Origami".
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Following up on her puff ring and 3D variations in the September-October 2015 issue of The Fold, Nobuko Okabe now offers us an eight-pointed starburst flower and its puffy cousin.
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Diagrams for a 30 unit modular design.
Diagrams for a peacock with color change, released in open access to celebrate the World Origami Days 2015.
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Diagrams for a spinable top by Ali Bahmani, folded from a pentagon.
Nobuko Okabe offers us some more beautiful modular models she has created. She also discusses and acknowledges how different artists can create the same origami model.
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Diagrams for an octagonal star with color change, from a single uncut square. Also included is a variation of the star.
A book review for "Money-Gami," a collection of money folds designed by Gay Merrill Gross.
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Building Block Units (BBU) are a new family of modular origami units, with over one hundred different interlocking module designs.
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Diagrams for a the traditional pirate symbol designed by Hadi Tahir.
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A discussion of an alternate Sonobe Unit assembly which produces a surprisingly different result than the conventional one. Diagrams included.
The 2010 CDO convention was my first international convention. Coincidentally, it was just the same for Allesandra, a young enthusiastic folder. Read here what process she went thorough since than, to become a young, enthusiastic creator!
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Diagrams for two money fold models, a box with lid and duck, by Milind Oka.
A progressive crease pattern for a box-pleated house with latticed windows by Clifford Jones.
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Diagrams for the solid version of the Compound of 5 Tetrahedra aka the 47th Stellation of the Icosahedron, similar to the very popular frame version by Tom Hull/Francis Ow, known as Five Intersecting Tetrahedra or FIT. Some mathematics has been discussed as well.
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Tridecagon, also known as the triskaidecagon, is a 13-sided polygon. There are several origami methods already available for folding the tridecagon but the simplicity of my approach may be of interest to people. You may use the tridecagon to transpose origami designs based on other regular polygons.
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Diagrams for a 30 piece modular design by Natalia Romanenko of Moldova.
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Diagrams for a Sakura Star by Ali Bahmani designed to be viewed from both sides.
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Diagrams for a sitting dog named Timber designed by John Szinger.
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Diagrams for a two piece modular star designed by Sy Chen that can rotate to change form.
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Diagrams for a 30-piece modular design by Daniel Reutsky of Russia.
This article introduces readers to Star Festival, Variation 1, a model made with 16 units.
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Diagrams for a 30-piece modular design by Maria Vakhrusheva of Russia.
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Diagrams for a box-pleated snake designed by Hadi Tahir.
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Diagrams for a 30-piece modular design by Valentina Minayeva of Ukraine.
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Diagrams for a 30 piece modular by Uniya Filonova of Russia.
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Diagrams for a sheep by Indonesian artist Hadi Tahir.
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Several variations on a hexagon-based, iso-area, geometric collapse method are shown. Some of these were taught at the 2013 OrigamiUSA Annual Convention in New York City.
Román Díaz presents a thorough and engaging review of John Montroll's "Horses in Origami".
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Diagrams for a 30 piece modular design by Natalia Romanenko of Moldova.
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Diagrams for an elegant shrimp by Joseph Fleming, a detailed model folded simply from an isosceles right triangle.
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Diagrams for an origami Owl designed by Sébastien Limet in a cartoon style.
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A rotationally symmetric solid curved fold, folded from a regular hexagon.
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Diagramming a model with lots of pleats can be a challenge. Some techniques are presented to help avoid ambiguity.
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Diagrams for a Dragon head trophy, a variation of Paul Frasco's Dragon Whelp.
The Zipper Tessellation is a good starting point for many variations, such as the Zipper Ring and Vase, presented here with crease patterns and some diagrams.
Diagrams for the model Six Intersecting Pentagrams, plus an article on its history.
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Diagrams for a bell adorned with a peacock, inspired by traditional Indian bells.
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Diagrams for a salmon designed by Joel Stern for a consulting project.
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OrigamiUSA's 2011 Annual Collection included a peacock from Rikki Donachie made from a square. Here Rikki shares another peacock made from an A4 rectangle.
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Diagrams for a turkey, symbolic of the American holiday of Thanksgiving.
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Diagrams for an expressive and graceful horse.
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Crease pattern for Toshikazu Kawasaki's Dragon inspired by a statue in Barcelona. OrigamiUSA members have contributed diagrams and a video tutorial for this model as well.
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Diagrams for a Pig Rabbit by Daniel Chang
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Diagrams for a coyote by Julio Eduardo C. T.
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Diagrams for a flying angel by Tom Defoirdt
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Diagrams for an origami version of Hangman by Sy Chen
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Diagrams for a Rabbit by Hsi-Min Tai.
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Diagrams for Steven Casey's Jerboa, an unusual rodent.
This article compares the advantages and disadvantages of PDF diagrams and video instructions. It includes PDF and video diagrams for the models "Lovers Ring" by Francis Ow, and "Will you be my Valentine?" by Stacy Mannes.
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Diagrams for a Koala by Artur Biernacki.
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Fernando Gilgado shares his diagrams of a cartoon-like owl.
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Diagrams for a Dragon by Marc Kirschenbaum