There’s no denying its elegant beauty, but the importance of a designer’s dress pattern seems inconsequential among the examples of how the art of origami has played a role in engineering, ...

Michael G. LaFosse has been an origami artist for over four decades and co-founded Origamido Studio, a unique destination for a variety of paper art and origami resources that serves as a hybrid ...

Start your origami journey with simple designs like cranes or boats. These basic models require fewer steps, making it easier for beginners to focus on each fold. By mastering simple shapes first, ...

Beginning with a child’s love of paper dolls, Joan Son’s creativity has unfolded — and folded — its way to high art. Son’s exhibition “Part Geometry-Part Zen: Paperworks and Contemporary Origami” is ...

All you need to practice origami (which means “to fold paper” in Japanese) is a sheet of paper and a little focus, but certain tools can make the process easier. Here are some recommendations to guide ...

Paper is an incredibly versatile thing: we can write on it, build with it, and even make stunning, thought-provoking art with it. Taking flat sheets of paper and transforming them into ...

Last month, hundreds of paper connoisseurs descended on New York for a convention put on by OrigamiUSA, in celebration of the delicate paper arts of East Asia. The event underscores the West’s growing ...

When I was a student (circa the late 1970s) and when I started out as an engineer (circa the early 1980s), the printers we used were dot-matrix or line printers of the continuous feed variety. The way ...

Place your paper down and decide which way you are going to fold it You can fold it up the way, down the way or from one side to the other. Choose what feels easiest and will give you the hole size ...

At the National Museum of Mathematics, origami helps bridge the gap between art and math and finds the beauty in both. Faye E. Goldman's origami, center, on view at the National Museum of Mathematics ...