Our reviewer says the designs are a feast for the eyes.
Learn 25 new tessellations during the month of December.
Discover these "butterflies of the sea" through origami.
Part three in our series of newly diagrammed letterfolds by the origami master.
A brooch that differs in proportion from the brooches in the recently completed series.
Meenakshi’s final contribution to The Fold is a beautiful aquatic flower.
One last beautiful brooch from this series, with links to all the diagrams.
The traditional Star Box is transformed into a favorite flower.
Choose two different papers or the same paper, alternating front and back ... patterns, solids ... all will produce beautiful results.
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A childhood toy re-created in origami.
The origami version of a classic wooden puzzle is easier to fold than solve.
Another lovely brooch along with an easy way to fold and cut an octagon from a square.
A new series of instructional videos to get you started with tessellations ... or to fold just for fun.
A cute little dragon for the new year. Surprisingly, It grew out of two older Santa designs.
Two decorative designs that are satisfying to fold.
This floral brooch grew out of another hexagonal brooch published in The Fold.
A maple leaf for fall (or spring or summer) that starts with a bird base.
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Three modules make a hanging ornament, while the strong lock allows for 6-,12-, 20-, 30-piece, and even larger versions.
A framework for creating new tessellations from a basic starting point. Crease patterns can be downloaded as a PDF booklet.
A box you will enjoy folding again and again.
A modular with a flowerlike twist, a color change and a secure lock.
Joseph Hwang’s third book focuses on the sea.
A pretty brooch along with directions for cutting a regular pentagon.
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A house that makes a convenient gift box.
Two stars and a quick way to cut an equilateral triangle from a square.
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An octagonal bowl with a scalloped rim and ornate base.
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A color-change star from the bird base.
Two different folding sequences to arrive at almost the same box.
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Fold a delightful Sand Dollar from a square sheet of paper.
A bowl with variations and an excellent way to cut a pentagon from kaleidoscope paper.
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A tessellation that results in a curved surface with varied levels of reflection.
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The airboat: probably a first in the world of origami.
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Brrr ... enjoy folding your own polar family.
A Santa that can stand on his own or be curved into a finger puppet.
A printable crease pattern and photo diagrams for the top along with directions for making a masu box bottom to fit.
A book of clearly diagrammed, open modular spheres.
A two-piece icosahedron that’s a gift box and an ornament.
A ghost for summer folding that was designed on Valentine’s Day.
An essay on the design possibilities of multiple blintzes.
An orchid with a leaf to create an arrangement.
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The late Linda Bogan’s favorite diagrams and recipes in an e-book for OrigamiUSA members.
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A seven-unit modular ring with an interesting collapse.
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Diagrams for an icosahedral design made with 30 quick-to-fold units from squares. The look is rather festive, and hence the name. You can fold the with thematic colors of the season to fit right in.
A tetrahedral gift box with a secure closure and a loop for hanging.
Learn more about a designer of exquisite kusudamas, and try your hand at folding one.
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A rabbit-lover's take on Valentine’s Day.
An innovative book of color-change models that exploits the technique to the fullest.
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A lovely ornament that somehow evokes old-fashioned Christmases.
An intermediate-level sculptural Goat that benefits from careful detailing at the end of the folding process.
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.
Two hieroglyphs from Anita’s Egyptian origami series.
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Michael La Fosse named this splendid butterfly for Wendy Zeichner, the CEO of OrigamiUSA, in appreciation of her work as an origami ambassador.
A striking origami representation of Tehran’s iconic Freedom Tower.
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An enticing candy dish used by the author to hold wedding candies.
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An ingenious combination of two origami forms.
Diagrams for two house and heart models with a color-changed roof and hearts.
The conical modules of this kusudama come together to form color-change stars. The model works with 12 or 30 pieces.
Diagrams for a house and heart model. This house even includes two windows and a door.
A box with a raised square — or a heart — on top. It was inspired by Thoki Yenn's Crossed Box Pleat.
Learn how to fold this standing house with heart by downloading diagrams or watching a video tutorial.
Nothing is known about the construction of the Great Sphinx of Giza, but you can construct your own sphinx out of paper, thanks to Anita Barbour.
This flipper alternates between a man and a fish in two color combinations. Sy provides us with a story, but you can invent your own.
A double-sided spiral diamond from one sheet of paper. Sy Chen based this design on his earlier two-tone diamond, which appears on the OrigamiUSA website. Links to both models are in the article.
An endearing wet-folded mouse with teeth for the Year of the Rat (or sometimes Mouse).
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Valentine’s day is coming, and if you like origami hearts and you’re also into modulars, you can follow the diagrams and fold a Two of Hearts modular.
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A modular recycling symbol by Sharon Turvey that can easily be made from recycled paper or junk mail, but it's worth folding from any paper.
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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.
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Diagrams for a butterfly with heart-shaped wings and a distinctive folding sequence.
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Fold a decorative turkey for each of your holiday guests: You may find it hard to stop at one.
What's in issue 54 of The Fold, and who is the new editor? You'll also find diagrams for her favorite origami design.
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Xiaoxian Huang shares with us a model that can serve as a wallet or a gift envelope.
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Diagrams for a stylized tropical leaf.
Yara Yagi continues our celebration of the Year of the Pig with her fantastical flying pig.
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Diagrams for a flower folded from a hexagon. Like many polygonal designs, the flower can also be transposed to pentagons, heptagons, and octagons. Also includes how to fold a hexagon from a square.
Eric Vigier shares his methods for wet folding and presents a model and diagrams for practice.
Son Linh NGUYEN offers us three pig models in our continuing celebration of the Year of the Pig.
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Viviane Berty shares the diagrams for her nymphéa (water lily).
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Diagrams for Fish Hook Module with details of how to build a cube and an octahedron. The modules are edge modules, and most polyhedra can be built, except those that have five or more edges meeting at a vertex.
Yara Yagi presents us with a detailed review of Ilan Garibi's latest book, Origami Tessellations for Everyone.
As we continue to celebrate The Year of the Pig, Edwin Corrie shares with us four of his pig models.
In anticipation of the Year of the Pig/Boar, Leyla Torres presents us with an Origami Pig and Candy Box and explains how she changed a cat into a pig.
To welcome the Year of the Pig/Boar (February 5, 2019), Xiaoxian Huang created a Piggy's Face for us.
Roman Remme, a special guest at the 2018 CDO Convention, presents us with diagrams for an iso-area star.
Christiane Bettens presents us with another variation of an antiprism box.
Just in time for the holidays, Jorge Jaramillo presents us with improved diagrams of José Meeusen's Deco Star.
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Diagrams for a modular with color change. You can assemble 12 or 30 units. Kami or thicker duo paper is recommended. Scrapbook paper works well, making the result sturdier.
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Diagrams for a color-change modular, 12 or 30 units, though like most polyhedral designs, the latter is more attractive. The flower petals are of one color, and the flower centers and background are of another color.
Paolo Bascetta presents us with a creative, new Sierpinski 3D fractal created by stacking.
Paul Jackson celebrates the Year of the Dog by contributing Barking Dog 1, an action model.
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Diagrams for a color-change modular made from 30 rectangles.
For those who were not able to meet Viviane Berty as a special guest at the 2018 OrigamiUSA Convention, here is a gift from Viviane!
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Here are diagrams for Stella Lefty by Francisco Mancini, taught by Char Morrow at the 2018 OrigamiUSA Convention.
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Diagrams for the face of a monkey you can wear as a mask!
To celebrate the Golden Dog Year, Brians Tjipto designed a dog in various poses.
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Diagrams for a delightful strip of flowers with color change. Great for those left over strips of paper that you have been saving forever to fold something.
A technique that I discovered sometime during 2015-2017, which I will call the "cupboard fold spacer." It creates a small gap in a unit, for example one in the center-line of a Sonobe unit.
Not only does Richard Alexander share his diagrams for Kanji the Dog, but he and Michael LaFosse also present us with an instructional video and a printout of Kanji you can fold to celebrate Lunar New Year of the Dog!
Dave shares with us the history of how his foxhound design came about in 1975. The article also includes a video tutorial and diagrams for a running and sitting version of the dog respectively.
Here is a beautiful and realistic poppy from Eric Vigier to help start off the New Year.
My origami journey so far, as I celebrate two milestones - 20 years of my online presence and 10 years publishing books. Also find photo instructions for folding Pentas, one of my latest designs.
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Paula Versnick's beautiful Fern Leaf design from year 2000 definitely is worth a revisit. The leaf naturally takes a curved shape which gives it an organic look.
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Diagrams for a 30 unit modular with color-changed five petaled flowers. For four petaled flowers assemble 12 units.
Once again, Reza Sarvi is recreating a historic site form ancient Persia, using paper only!
Here are diagrams for a cat by Eric Vigier, for you to modify using your imagination.
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Diagrams for a Yale-type cylinder lock key from a rectangle of paper, by Lisa Nguyen Quang Do.
Daniel Chang's origami is totally free from any references, and the paper to him is more like clay than a surface to grid first. As always, ten questions to reveal the way Daniel creates his paper (and more) sculptures.
Diagrams for an origami book design that can be modified to provide arbitrarily many pages.
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Paolo Bascetta offers a new model to ring out 2016.
Xiaoxian Huang shares her new creation just in time for Christmas: a spiral tree.
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Diagrams for a turkey for the Thanksgiving season.
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Diagrams for an abstract partial representation of a pair of submerged dolphins.
Diagrams for a simple modular from 2:1 rectangles, released in open access to celebrate the World Origami Days 2016.
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This is a followup of my previous article, Pentakis Dodecahedron (Issue 35), featuring variation patterns. Mono paper such as copy paper or Tant is a must.
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Diagrams for a 30 unit modular dodecahedron with color change by Mukul Achawal of India.
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Here are diagrams for the peace symbol created by Hadi Tahir.
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Here are the diagrams for Maria's Star, which Evan Zodl created and taught at the 2016 OrigamiUSA Convention.
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Diagrams for a simple modular from squares 4" or smaller. For larger constructions though, use paper of proportion \(5:3\sqrt{3}\), i.e., \(1:1.039\).
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If you have been waiting for diagrams of Roman Diaz's Goat, designed in 1998, your wait is over. Vishwas Deval presents us with diagrams for the Goat.
Enrique is special in the way he thinks, in his humor, in his creation. This interview introduces him and his work process, revealing more than usual, how he creates his cartoon-like, funny, lively models.
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Photo diagrams for a 30 unit modular with subtle curves by Aldos Marcell of Nicaragua. Assemblies with other number of units possible as well.
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Diagrams for an umbrella presented by Anita Raj.
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Diagrams for a lovely and graceful swan inspired by Hoàng Tiến Quyết, designed by Lisa Nguyen.
Inspired by Tom Hull's Squishy Parallelepipeds, Sy Chen presents us with an one-piece Arrow to Heart transformation, which he will teach at the 2016 OrigamiUSA Convention.
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Diagrams for a simple Sonobe type modular made from approximately 1:5 rectangles. This design is great for any leftover strips you may have amassed when sizing paper for other projects.
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Bob Voelker presents diagrams for an equilateral triangle module.
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Diagrams for an owl model that holds a secret, designed by Rob Snyder.
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Diagrams for a 12 or 30 unit modular with color change. The starting paper size ratio for an unit is 1:3.
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Diagrams for a 30-unit Sonobe type design with color change. Other assemblies such as 3, 6, 12 or larger number of units are possible as well.