Origami News

Pupils at Goddard Park Community Primary School enjoyed learning the arts of Origami - paper folding - and calligraphy, as well as sampling Japanese cuisine and dressing up in traditional costumes of the country.

Philip Durst started making art as a way to escape from the pressures of the courtroom; he's even worked on pieces during depositions What do you get when you fold hundreds of Dum Dum wrappers into origami boats and glue them to the pages of old legal texts? Austin-based artist Philip Durst knows, because he's done it.

According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund website, May 15 was proclaimed National Peace Officers Memorial Day by President John F. Kennedy.

To many of us, origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper-folding, is an artistic novelty, resulting in a cute miniature crane, frog, elephant or even a boat or a box.

Entitled 'Bucky', this clever and foldable bowl design by Peter Hils pays homage to the Japanese paper art of Origami.

Jackie Cisneros and her daughter Samantha, 7, created origami flowers for Mother's Day at the Japanese Garden in Van Nuys on Sunday.

Most 3D printers create objects in plastic. Some use ceramic, metal or other materials.

Martin Swist of Tokyo, Japan, left, and Ray Horvath, a teacher in the before and after program at Sandy Hook Elementary School, hold a sculpture of 1,000 origami cranes, made and donated to Sandy Hook by families in Tokyo and students at The American School in Japan, Monday, May 6, 2013.

I could never haul myself up ropes, jump over gymnasium horses or manage press-ups - no matter how many times a fearful instructor barked at me.

Mechanical engineering PhD student Shannon A. Zirbel is shaking things up with a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship worth up to $198,000. For her second summer now, Zirbel will ship out to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, home of the Mars rover team, to apply origami in space.

The Crocker Art Museum announces "Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami," an engaging, thought-provoking and interdisciplinary look at the modern advances of origami through contemporary artworks, inventions and videos.

There is a moment in The Crane Wife when you will cringe and think "oh no, don't say that". Actually, there are several moments like that, but it's not in the way you think.

The clothes and accessories we wear on a daily basis usually follow the same trend and oftentimes come from an ancient tradition or specific cultural style.

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When the airplane seats are too narrow and the flight is too long, yoga can provide relief for aching backs and stiff hips.

We normally think of electronic components as being inflexible but researchers in Japan are challenging this concept by reinventing paper.

David Rodriguez Caballero moves with the grace of a jaguar through a Wynwood gallery.

Students from Shanghai's Fudan University donate money to the parents of Huang Yang, who died from poisoning in April.

Something I'm proud of, but maybe shouldn't be, is how much I participated in my kids' homework over the years.

A seasoned yoga instructor shares poses for the seat or aisle so you can leave the plane not tied in knots.