Sunday, October 28, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
World Origami Days
World Origami Days
Let's get the world to fold! Celebrate origami by spreading the joy of paperfolding during World Origami Days, held each year from October 24–November 11, a 2-1/2 week celebration of the international community of origami!. Help us make origami as visible as possible: teach a class, fold on the bus, give your friends origami, exhibit your models. The possibilities are limitless, just as with origami itself.
October 24 is the birthday of Lillian Oppenheimer (1898-1992), who founded the first origami group in America. She was also one of the founders of the British Origami Society and OrigamiUSA. A dynamic woman, she was delighted in the magic to be found in a piece of paper and wanted to share it with the world.
November 11 is Origami Day in Japan where the paper crane has become a symbol of peace.
Poster
Download the World Origami Days Poster (see right).
Events
Go here for a list of events scheduled for World Origami Days. If you've got an event to be listed, email us at wod-info@origami-usa.org. We will add your information to the website and to the OrigamiUSA calendar.
Ideas
Go here for some ideas on hosting a World Origami Days event. If you've got an idea you'd like to be listed, email us at wod-info@origami-usa.org. We will add your information to the website.
Templates
Go here to celebrate World Origami Days by folding a sailboat with a celebration notice on it or a flapping bird with "Celebrate World Origami Days" on the wings in your native language! Download diagrams and templates for folding.
Resources
Go here for some additional resources to help you spread the news about World Origami Days.
Forums
Go here to share your ideas and experiences in our World Origami Days forums!Photo Gallery
Go here to share your celebrations in our Flickr photo gallery.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
folded money
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Click on the picture - For old times sake...........
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
Snapper - ORIGAMI
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| 1. Start with a rectangular piece of paper, coloured side up. Fold in half, then open. | 2. Fold in half downwards. | |
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| 3. Bring corners in to centre line. | 4. Fold uppermost layer upwards & do the same to the back. Crease well. | 5. Pull the sides out and flatten. |
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| 6. Fold front layer up to top, & do the same to the back. | 7. Pull the sides outwards and flatten. | 8. Gently pull the top parts of the model outwards, making a boat shape. |
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| 9. Flatten well. | 10. Tuck the little centre triangle under one of the sides. Then bring the outside corners to meet together, letting the sides move outwards. | |
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| Finished Snapper. To make it snap, hold as shown and press together. It looks especiallly good with eyes! |
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Tutankhamun mask (Marcela Brina)
Tutankhamun mask (Marcela Brina)
2 October 2010 - 8:42pm — SaraDesigner:
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Paper: 15cm Kraft paper, beige/gold
Model: 10.5cm high, 8cm wide
I like the simplicity, yet expressiveness of this model a lot.
Marcela created this mask for the Ancient Egypt Jousting organized by Eric Madrigal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qqpu4q_eK4 or http://www.flickr.com/groups/la_gran_justa_del_antiguo_egipto
Origami Instructions: Baby (Robert Lang)
Comparing ODS 1st Ed. to ODS 2nd Ed.: http://www.happyfolding.com/blog-origami_design_secrets_second_edition
Paper used in this video: 15cm square of kami (6in by 6in)
Finished model: 6cm high, 5.5cm wide, 3cm deep (2.5in by 2 1/4in by 1 1/4in)
This video describes how to fold a baby designed by Robert J. Lang. Robert kindly gave me permission to make this video accessible to you.
Diagrams can be found in the book "Origami Design Secrets" by Robert J. Lang:
http://www.happyfolding.com/book-lang-origami_design_secrets (1st Edition)
http://www.happyfolding.com/book-lang-origami_design_secrets_2nd_edition (2nd Edition)
Robert's website: http://www.langorigami.com
More origami: http://www.happyfolding.com More
Paper used in this video: 15cm square of kami (6in by 6in)
Finished model: 6cm high, 5.5cm wide, 3cm deep (2.5in by 2 1/4in by 1 1/4in)
This video describes how to fold a baby designed by Robert J. Lang. Robert kindly gave me permission to make this video accessible to you.
Diagrams can be found in the book "Origami Design Secrets" by Robert J. Lang:
http://www.happyfolding.com/book-lang-origami_design_secrets (1st Edition)
http://www.happyfolding.com/book-lang-origami_design_secrets_2nd_edition (2nd Edition)
Robert's website: http://www.langorigami.com
More origami: http://www.happyfolding.com More
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Origami May Save Your Life
Origami May Save Your Life
by Drew Martin
I watched a fascinating documentary yesterday about origami: Between the Folds: Exploring Origami. The film is incredibly well constructed because of the way it takes you deeper and deeper into the world of origami. It starts off with representational origami and the realism achieved by origami artists such as Michael LaFosse, who is the only origami maker who also makes his own paper and he makes the paper with a piece in mind, i.e. double-sided black and yellow for a toucan. Then there is Dr. Robert J. Lang who holds two Caltech degrees and gave up a full-time gig at Caltech to pursue origami. As an art form, origami is unique; it is a metamorphic art, as opposed to additive or subtractive art. Its secrets and beauty are in the folding, which its followers explain is everywhere: the folding of fabric, sound waves, mountains, galaxies, DNA...everything. Some origami makers say it is improvisational like jazz, while others claim it is more like sonatas or fugues. Lang, who gives his work opus numbers, offers an analogy between music and the laws of paper, "What you can accomplish is strongly governed by mathematical laws of music; the harmonic ratios between the notes and rhythms." And this is where the documentary gets even more interesting. Anyone who is anyone in the origami world agrees, Akira Yoshizawa (1911-2005) was the master who took the basics of school-kid origami and made it an art form and a science. Dr. Thomas Hull, a mathematics professor at Merrimack College, speaks about math as all of its subjects together and says that origami exhibits this including: geometry, number theory, abstract algebra, linear algebra with matrices, and "weird-bizarre" geometry like geometry of the sphere. Dr. Erik Demaine is a 30-year-old professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the top origami theorist. He went to college at 12, got his bachelor's degree at 14 and his Ph.D. at 20, with his dissertation on computational origami. He joined the MIT faculty at that time and received the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship "Genius Award" two years later in 2003. If you think folding paper is being taken too seriously, consider the practical applications: the airbag algorithm came from the design of artistic origami and origami design is being used in the space industry to engineer foldable satellite parts that can be packed into rockets and unfurled in space. Demaine also touches upon pharmaceutical applications - how proteins fold determine good health or disease and being able to create proteins with a certain fold would make it possible to target certain viruses.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Origami Simple
 | size: 56k level: S A4 Proportioned Rectangle Steve and Megumi Biddle added: Nov 23, 1995 |  |  | size: 46k level: S Abstract Objects Eugeny Fridrikh added: Jan 13, 2001 |
 | size: 5k level: S American Eagle Colleen Winchester added: Jul 08, 1999 | |  | size: 217k level: S Baby Elephant Ricardo Castelejo added: Mar 28, 2002 |
 | size: 19k level: S Balloon with Basket Maarten van Gelder added: Jul 25, 1999 | |  | size: 158k level: S Basic Symbols and Folds Peter Budai added: Jul 02, 2000 |
 | size: 89k level: S Bloom Rita Foelker added: Jan 15, 2001 | |  | size: 5k level: S Boat (traditional) Frantisek Grebenicek (diagrams) added: Jan 01, 2001 |
 | size: 20k level: S Boat II Sy Chen added: Nov 18, 1997 | |  | size: 20k level: S Boat III Sy Chen added: Nov 18, 1997 |
 | size: 28k level: S Bookmarks Kim Best added: May 08, 1996 | |  | size: 7k level: S Box Steve Hecht added: Sep 11, 1999 |
 | size: 112k level: S Box Marc Vigo added: May 13, 2008 | |  | size: 112k level: S Butterfly Rikki Donachie added: May 13, 2008 |
 | size: 3k level: S Butterfly (bill fold) Andrew Anselmo added: Oct 25, 1995 | |  | size: 6k level: S Chair Perry Bailey added: Feb 10, 2000 |
 | size: 9k level: S Chinese Modular Robert Hudson (diagrams) added: May 08, 1996 | |  | size: 9k level: S Chopstick Wrapper Sy Chen added: Mar 04, 2001 |
 | size: 6k level: S Chrysalis - a teaching model Perry Bailey added: Feb 10, 2000 | |  | size: 20k level: S Clock Case Maarten van Gelder added: Jul 25, 1999 |
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