On Saturday November 10th, 2012 from 11am – 4pm, World Origami Days (WOD) will be celebrated at the One Corner Gallery, 39 School Street, in Arlington, VT. World Origami Days is a two-week international celebration honoring the art of Origami. This global event traditionally begins October 24th, the birthday of Lillian Oppenheimer (1898-1992), founder of [...]
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To celebrate World Origami Days* 2012, we are giving away one of these original origami brooches, designed and folded by Leyla Torres,. Visit the Origami Spirit Youtube channel to watch this 2-minute video for details and a chance to win this FREE origami brooch gilded with 23K gold leaf. Deadline November 11th, 2012 6pm (NY [...]
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During the informal Origami Pin Exchange at this year’s OrigamiUSA convention I folded a number of bees (instructions here) and made pins from them. The photo above shows pins I received in exchange. Cute and Fun! Many origami models are easily made into pins. All we need to do is glue a little pin on [...]
Have you ever tried to fold your living room carpet… into an elephant? At the recent annual Origami USA convention I followed a team of four women who had a lot of fun folding a mega-size origami elephant while participating in the large-size paper folding competition –organized and hosted by Sok Song. The members of [...]
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Origami Rhino Unfolding from MABONA ORIGAMI on Vimeo. Sipho Mabona from Switzerland: a special guest for this year’s OrigamiUSA convention, June 22-25 at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Dennis Walker from Scotland: the creator and maintainer of the Origami Database -GREAT RESOURCE! will be also a special guest at the convention. [...]
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Since the Northwest Coast of the United States is known for frequent rain, the symbol for this year’s Pacific Coast Origami Convention –PCOC* was an umbrella. The convention was held in Bellevue, WA from September 29th to October 2nd. • Patty Grodner created the lovely rainy-day-themed composition which she displayed at the PCOC exhibit -shown [...]
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Since origami is such a portable art, I need only some paper and my hands to make something. But whenever I travel, either near or far away, I always carry with me a small tool bag. The tools in this bag often come in handy allowing me the opportunity to realize spontaneous creative ideas. Here [...]
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Origami Chile is hosting its 6th Origami Convention in Santiago from August 25-27, 2011. Within the convention, Origami Chile will be hosting a separate parallel event: The Second Latin American Origami Congress. –The first Latin American Origami Congress was held in Bogotá in April of 2010. While the convention is geared to teaching and sharing [...]
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Back from the Origami USA convention in New York City my work table is overflowing with origami models, papers, books, and presents. As always the convention has left me recharged with creative energy and a surplus of new ideas! Some highlights of the Origami USA convention 2011: This year’s special guest was Toshikazu Kawasaki from [...]
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