Designers across disciplines are increasingly drawing on origami’s principles to transform flat concepts into immersive, functional 3D experiences. From interior spaces shaped by graphic design’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Origami’s early adopters didn’t have furniture on their minds—they were likely more concerned with crafting 1,000 paper cranes to ...

An origami-inspired tent had to be flexible enough to inflate, but sturdy enough to withstand the elements. (Image courtesy of Benjamin Gorissen/David Melancon/Harvard SEAS) Applied mathematics ...

One bright April day on a Harvard University lawn, David Melancon stepped out of a white plastic tent carrying a table. Then another. Then he made a few trips to produce 14 chairs. Then a bike, ...

Wrap up Dawg Days with a fun, creative activity! Drop by to make origami and paint with the MSU Office for Student Well-Being. All supplies are provided—just bring your imagination.

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.

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 ...