Schedule

Welcome to World Origami Days (WOD) To kick off the 19 days of folding we will begin with a class by PCOC 2025 guest of honor, Jun Maekawa. Maekawa san will teach us 2 models: Globe and Doll. To fold the globe please print out the pdf attached to the description. The doll figure is a unique design using Leonardo da Vinci's Vetruvian Man for inspiration. As in previous WOD years, these kick off class designs are meant to be used as props for the pictures you will take of the models you fold throughout the days. Please post using #WorldOrigamiDays2024.

Carmen has designed another awesome star, this one is folded from an octagon. As typical, this star shows Carmen's love for geometry. It's sure to be a new favorite!

This is a modular design, an "edge" unit, which can be used for any convex polyhedron. We'll fold six units (the simplest possible polyhedron, a tetrahedron), but one can easily use it for large ones. One based on the edges of a cuboctahedron (24 units) is pictured.

These are delightfully clever decorative boxes, made to look like the traditional "Hina Dolls" from the traditional Japanese "Hinamatsuri" or Doll's Day Festival. They represent a traditionally-dressed Emperor and Empress of the Japanese Imperial Court.

Char has developed an ingenious way to honor someone's birthday. Through a modular quilt and some mathematics some aspect of the model matches the age of the birthday celebrant. Char will show some examples and will teach the version of this quilt that is a birthday gift for an 8 year old (8 = 2 cubed), or for a 29 year old (there are 29 pieces of paper in this quilt).

If you have ever heard origami described as something like “sculpture from paper,” this design is truly an example of that. Eric Joisel’s Seahorse is a work of origami with a simple base and extraordinary shaping. The base can be formed in minutes, but completing the final form can take an hour or more. The result will be as much a test of your ability to sculpt, as it is of your ability to follow instructions.

This cardinal is a complex non-uniaxial hex pleating (HP) model, featuring color changes and a puffy 3d belly. The grid is a 12x12x12 hex grid on square paper.

This is a pretty difficult model even compared to other hex pleated designs, so having experience with box pleating would be helpful if this is your first time using hex pleating.

Jeremy is constantly creating new models and we are lucky to have a sneak peek of models soon to hit his YouTube channel.

Francesco was a special guest at the OrigamiUSA Annual convention. We are delighted he is also joining us for World Origami Days! He will teach a 30 unit modular that has two configurations of the color change, inside and outside.