Insect Origami by Brian Chan

American artist Brian Chan designed these amazingly detailed origami insects made from a single sheet of paper.



“I started by copying work of other authors about 20 years ago but after a while I was good enough to start coming up with my own pieces.”



"When I was growing up, my parents bought me a lot of origami books they start with simple models and then the diagrams get more and more complex near the end, so they are good sources for independent learning."



"That year I folded about 10 models for the MIT Origami Competition, and I won several more awards. Since then I've made more than 100 original designs."



"The basic idea behind creating origami is simple, you are allocating sections of your flat sheet of paper which become folded parts of your model."



"The method I most often use use is called circle packing. Essentially, appendages in the model are formed when circular regions of paper fold umbrella-like into thin flaps."



"Beyond this, there are a lot of other techniques I use to make my models uniquely mine, and much of it just comes from experience, intuition and folding the model many different ways until it is perfect."











Check his website: http://web.mit.edu/chosetec/www/origami/

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Wet-Folding Origami by Hoàng Tiến Quyết

Vietnamese artist Hoàng Tiến Quyết created these stunning origami using a difficult technique known as wet-folding.























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Relief by Yuko Nishimura

Japanese artist Yuko Nishimura transforms single sheets of handmade paper into contoured works of art in her series 'Relief'.



"Japanese people unconsciously experience the action of folding on a daily basis, and therefore encounter various folded forms. I think there must be a special meaning for Japanese people through this everyday practice, folding."



"A particular charm occurs in the simplicity with which the expression appears having never been touched by any tool."



"Only by folding one piece of paper an expressive masterpiece can be created. This is the Japanese way of folding. In order to link the past with future generations regarding the form of folding, I do not limit myself to the category of origami but consider the pursuit of any possibility of folding paper."



"To express the Japanese soul through form will continue to be passed down from generation to generation as a tangency between culture and art."



"Creating three-dimensional concrete forms by folding one piece of paper is traditional Japanese origami, and I use this essential ‘folding’ technique in my work. However I create large scale paper relief sculptures composed of narrow pleats that are made by repetitive creasing and folding, which result in accordion folds."





Check her website: http://yukonishimura.com/

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Origami Scenes Built With Everyday Objects By Wenche Lise Fossland

Wenche Lise Fossland is combines Japanese art of folding paper with everyday objects to create these cute scenes.



“It is fascinating that there is almost no limit to the shapes you can turn a flat paper into.”



“One fold took the other and I started searching for all kinds of designs."



"I even look at the vegetables in the grocery store in a different way now. A fennel can be an exotic island and the broccoli has great potential to be tree material in my origami world.”

















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Spherical Origami by Jun Mitani

Japanese artist Jun Mitani folds amazing intricate and minimalist geometric origami models.



"When I was a kid, I didn’t have much interest in folding origami, but in papercraft. I fabricated a lot of paper models, such as cars, ships, buildings, and animals, etc. by cutting and gluing pieces of paper. I felt that origami, just folding, was too restricted. On the other hand, I was enthusiastic about the computer, which my father bought when I was a first-year student in elementary school. As a fusion of two objects of interest, papercraft and computer, the theme of my Ph.D. thesis became a method for designing paper models with the computer. After that research, I thought that I should challenge origami, particularly the geometrical constraint, which is harder than in papercraft. Shortly after starting my origami research, I was surprised how fascinating it was."





















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Incredible Origami by Adam Tram

Origami artist and chemistry teacher Adam Tram folds these beautiful objects with paper.





















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