SNOHOMISH — A tantrum in a toy store was Kim Crane’s introduction to the gentle art of Japanese paper folding. When her mother refused to buy her an origami kit, 6-year-old Kim began tearing up the ...

One fold, then two, and the flat, innocuous looking square begins to take shape. In the hands of Peter Engel, a Trestle Glen resident and architect, a single sheet of paper offers a world of ...

Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. One uncut square of paper can, in the hands of an origami artist, be folded into a bird, a frog, a sailboat, or a Japanese samurai helmet beetle.

AZoM talks to Professor Hanqing Jiang about his research relating to the characterization of metamaterials based on the properties of origami and kirigami. My name is Hanqing Jiang, a professor of ...

AZoNano speaks with Professor Hyoungsoo Kim from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology about his efforts to create a novel nanoscale self-assembling salt-crystal origami method called ...

It is no small thing to make a hedgehog. The first time Eric Joisel tried it, it took nearly six years. But what a hedgehog it turned out to be: folded from a single sheet of paper, each crenellation ...

Phoebe is a writer, a hard worker, and has always been interested in videogames. She's worked in retail, coached, babysat, has had an internship, and now works as a list writer for Valent's website ...

Modern origami was popularized throughout Japan and the United States through exhibitions of the work of Akira Yoshizawa, the grandmaster of origami, who developed a standard way to teach folding ...