Video Tutorial – Puffy Heart and Lion Head -Leyla Torres

In the series of videos presented here, you will learn how to fold three versions of an origami Puffy Heart, designed by Leyla Torres.
These hearts are perfect to make garlands for placement against a wall (Puffy Heart 1 and Lion Heart) or free-hanging when we want the hearts to be visible from both sides (Puffy Heart 2) …READ MORE HERE…

Expert Interview –Yara Yagi

Yara Yagi, an origami designer from Brazil, shares about her experience with origami design. Her prolific origami creations includes themes such as the human figure, flowers and plants, modulars, and animals.
Yara is of Japanese and Italian ancestry. She has a degree in Language and Letters and has worked as a teacher.
I addition to origami she loves to cook and write letters. She also enjoys starry nights, the smell of rain, fireflies, silence, autumn, playing cards, and chocolate… …READ MORE HERE…

Talk and Tidbits Live Meeting –Jan, 2021

In addition to sharing the highlights of the month from member’s posts on Facebook, we welcomed new members and introduced a new bonus. Now Origamigos members have access, at no extra cost, to a full 5-module origami design course called The Joy of Origami. …READ MORE HERE…

Video Tutorial – “Buffalo” designed by Yara Yagi

This charming origami buffalo, designed by Yara Yagi (Brasil) is an action model, a perfect little bovine to celebrate the Year of the Ox.

This origami Buffalo was created a few years back as part of a friendly competition to design a simple model using triangular shape paper. Yara’s use of a single square cut into two identical triangles is ingenious. As I wanted to share it here in Origamigos, I modified some angles and added minor folds to the body piece so that it is more stable to hold the head, and there is a suggestion of legs and rump. …READ MORE HERE…

Expert Interview –Miguel Gañán

Miguel entered the origami world in 2007. From the very beginning, Miguel was interested in geometry and math-related origami, and designed several modular models based on Tomoko Fuse´s units and snapology.

In 2011, Miguel discovered the world of tessellations and began folding the models of several authors to learn the process. Toward the end of 2017, his first designs came to life. Initially, these were plain tessellations as well as boxes, closed cubes, and tatos, models which are based on a similar technique.Gerardo has a background in Social Sciences, has been practicing origami actively since 2010, and has designed near 80 origami models. …READ MORE HERE…