hextessfour-popped Originally uploaded by noisia. Noisia over on flickr folded up this 3d “spread hexagon” tessellation. It remains one of my personal favorites, and I think it’s one of the easier designs to teach people, if you’re trying to explain triangular/hexagonal tessellations. (my diagrams for it leave a bit to be desired though, and are badly in need of a clean-up.) I have to say that seeing people fold a pattern that I nominally “created” really makes me happy; although anyone playing with hexagons could figure this out, and no doubt someone did long before I came along. Still, it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside, and I’m glad I was able to share something like this with someone else. It feels very good to give back to the world, even if it is something as simple as a folded piece of paper. I sincerely hope that Noisia’s exploration into 3d folded space continues to expand- and that we all are able to benefit and learn new things in turn from these discoveries!

www.Origami-Creation.com Origami artwork of Didier Boursin, with some great examples of his commercial work. some nice pleating/tessellation work in here. (tags: origami artwork origamicreation didier-boursin french commercialart) L’ART ET LA MANIERE DE PLIER UN TEE Build a T-shirt folding machine, using simple pieces of cardboard. simple design, great outcome. with good short movie illustrating construction and use. (tags: T-shirt robot folding machine DIY make) Die Fabrik great looking hostel/hotel in Berlin. keeping this one in mind for a future trip. great rates, beautiful rooms. (tags: hostel hotel berlin diefabrik germany deutschland)

Crafting Japanese, a great site for Japanese crafting books and projects (site is in English, for us non-japanese-speaking crafters.) always interesting material popping up here, worth keeping in your feed reader if you’re really in to this kind of thing!

I see a lot of traffic coming here because people are doing searches for basic origami things; especially people searching for “origomi” instead of “origami”. If that describes the reason you came to this site, I’d suggest the following links: www.origami.comwww.paperfolding.commoney origamiBob Nienhuis’s money origami pagewww.origami-usa.orgfolds.net easy origami tutorialswww.oriland.comOrigami Underground (origami models for adults only)British Origami SocietyMarc Kirschenbaum’s Origami PageMonkey.org tells you how to make an origami craneMeenakshi’s huge page of modular origami diagramsSarah’s (of megatokyo fame) origami sitewannalearn.com’s links (many of the same sites, and several more for instructions Hope that helps you get started down the road to some easy origami folding! If you are looking for origami tessellations and more complex origami, take a look at some of the many links on my links page.

Stefan Delecat wrote an email to the Origami-L mailing list mentioning a site update for Origami Deutschland. I went and checked it out- nice improvements- and saw these great works in the photo Gallery, by Ingrid Siliakus (previously linked to here in an earlier post on Origamic Architecture). Some of these were new to me, and as always I find them utterly fascinating. I know they aren’t “origami”, but they are paper art, and I love paper in all forms. I highly recommend checking them out.