I Am Paddy, aka Paddy Donnelly, has an origami blog post to blow you away. It’s the big web 2.0 icons done in origami.
Paddy has this to say about the why:
After creating my Twitter bird logo in an origami style a week ago, I wondered what other icons would look good all origamized. Turns out a [...]
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Star Wars Origami from Subway Tickets
Larry Fire, on The Fire Wire blog, shared something origami cool, Star Wars origami. Hubert de Lartigue crafts incredible Star Wars items, such as Tie-fighters, X-wings, and the Millennium Falcon from Parisian subway ticket stubs.
You can read the full article on The Fire Wire - Hubert de Lartigue’s Origami Star Wars Ships
I’ll share just one amazing photo [...]
Origami Mailing Envelopes
Crafted from the Daisy’s Envelope diagram in The Origami Bible.
Ed Hardy as Origami
I’m using the 2010 Ed Hardy Tattoo Art Calendar to craft origami. Each page is of course a square and sturdy enough to fold.
Bonus for this: paying $2.50 for the calendar and getting 365 sheets of folding paper. No two pieces are identical. I have plenty of calendars for 2010 so [...]
Wordless Origami – Japanese Print Penguin
As modeled from this penguin diagram.
Origami Whale – A sea full of folds
A whale of a good fold.
Diagram:
This whale model was folded based on a diagram at Origami-Club.Com.
My Experience:
Though the whale has very few folds, I had a tough time deciding how far to do each fold.
Additionally, the fourth step/fold, where a backwards fold is done, was a bit tricky to get lined up evenly.
I enjoyed doing [...]
Origami Duck and Outer Reverse-fold
Diagram:
The duck was folded per diagrams in Teach Yourself Origami by John Montroll, page 35.
My experience:
The duck was made with a focus on using the outside reverse-fold. The folds are layed out to end up with a solid colored model when complete.
What’s interesting about folding this is the inital folds get unfolded. Then new [...]
House Traditional – Quick Origami Fix
The House makes use of the origami fold known as the pull out. The pull out is grabbing a layer at a point and pulling it out and over.
As you can see, it’s fairly simple. Just describing it to someone though makes it hard to visualize, hence the video.
I recommend you fold yourself up a [...]
Origami Virgin Makes Crane, Tape at Ten
Yes, it’s a crane you say, and follow it up with so what. Well, it’s my first crane and I’m dang proud of it. Believe it or not, it wasn’t an hour long effort either.
The crane diagram didn’t come from Teach Yourself Origami but the origami.com site. Origami, the web site, is chock [...]
