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Here's a grand round up of inspiring origami and folded paper art and paper crafts that have been featured on All Things Paper. Some of ...

Nanokirigami is based on the ancient arts of origami (making 3-D shapes by folding paper) and kirigami (which allows cutting as well as folding) but applied to flat materials at the nanoscale. Now, researchers at MIT and in China have applied this approach to the creation of nanodevices to manipulate light, potentially opening new possibilities for light-based communications, detection, or computational devices.

Wales-based artist Polly Verity (previously) coaxes sheets of watercolor paper, canvas, and wire mesh into elegantly suggestive sculptures. The minimal works are carefully molded through a series of bends, twists, and slight folds that contour pursed lips or a rose grazing a nose, and each curve subtly alters the figure’s expression. Alongside her facial silhouettes, Verity also shapes fragmented torsos and voluptuous limbs, an expansion of her practice that connects the “sensual and…

This week's challenge uses the new official tangle "Molygon". ...though it reminds me of orange segments I had fun doing this tile and it...

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In this video tutorial you will learn how to fold a origami Hydrangea variation inspired by my favorite origamiartist Shuzo Fujimoto.

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