Origami has always been one of my biggest passions outside of design—there’s just something so magical and meditative about transforming humble sheets of paper into living, breathing pieces of art using your own two hands. One of these days (perhaps when I have some free time), I hope to bust out my dusty roll of papers from the basement and start folding again, but for now, here’s a virtual gallery of some of my favorite folds from over the years (mostly pre-2021). 

Dwarf Musicians  (Base crease patterns: Eric Joisel)

—40cm square / Kraft tissue + rectangular Biotope & painted tissue foil (for instruments)—

Phoenix 3.5  (Designer: Satoshi Kamiya)

—50cm square / Unryu double tissue—

Blakiston’s Fish Owl  (Designer: Katsuta Kyohei)

—48cm square / double tissue—

Green Turtle  (Designer: Jang Yong Ik)

—45cm square / double tissue—

Violin  (Designer: Gen Hagiwara)

—34cm length rectangle / Biotope—

Buddha  (Designer: Hojyo Takashi)

—40cm square / Biotope—

Blue Tang  (Crease pattern: Winston Lee)

—30cm square / bicolor triple tissue—

Base: 28cm square / untreated tissue paper, crumpled using a Vincent Floderer-inspired technique

Pufferfish  (Designer: Jang Yong Ik)

—50cm square / collaged double tissue—

Tiger  (Designer: Satoshi Kamiya)

—45cm square / bicolor double tissue—

Dancing Crane  (Designer: Robert J. Lang)

—40cm square / Kraft tissue—