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Don’t Wait for Halloween to Fold This Bat-Winged Heart

Love Halloween? Whatever your feelings about celebrating this holiday, you will love folding this origami heart with bat wings.Riki Saito (Japan) was inspired by Ildikó’s heart-dish, published recently in Origami Spirit. With the addition of bat wings he takes Ildiko’s origami heart to a new level.Folded from a triangular piece of paper cut from a … Read more

Google Pays Homage to Akira Yoshizawa

With today’s logo, Google pays homage to  Akira Yoshizawa (14 March 1911 – 14 March 2005). Paper folding master, Yoshizawa, is considered by many as the father of modern origami. Robert Lang, an origami master himself, helped Google put this together, and wrote up a description for their Doodle Blog. Read it here. In his … Read more

Welcoming a New Family Member

Today we baptized Emilio Torres, my nephew, and the newest member of our family. Here he sleeps in his father’s arms.On Emilio’s party cake we placed some tiny origami chickens –designed by Simon Andersen (Denmark). Find diagrams for the chicks at Hans Dybkjær’s website. Look for the file at the upper right corner of the … Read more

How to Organize Unruly Desktop Nicknacks… in Style!

I thought of many uses for Ms. Ayako Kawate’s origami accordion box when I first saw it. At the very top of my list was the possibility of organizing paperclips, pushpins, rubber bands, and other nicknacks that always clutter my desk. The box is made with as many modular containers as desired and is easy … Read more

What Do These Origami Figures Have in Common?

Yes, I’m sure you guessed right! They are all modular origami models because they’re made by joining together several separate units. But they also share another common trait! The units used to build each piece are made with variations of the easy-to-make Windmill Base. In their recently published e-book “Origami, La Base Molino” –Origami The … Read more

Sipho Mabona, Special Guest for OrigamiUSA 2012

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. I will not miss it!  –Are you attending … Read more