What was meant to be a 100-day project of transforming paper into beautiful origami cranes turned out to be much more than that for artist Cristian Marianciuc. The Romanian-born translator created ...

In the long history of the Japanese paper-folding art known as origami, there is no more of an iconic shape than that of the majestic crane. It became an international symbol of peace due to the ...

For a decade, the Daisho-in Buddhist temple on Miyajima island, facing Hiroshima, has held ritual burnings of the millions of origami cranes sent to the city each year. The ceremony is intended to ...

What do you get when you fold together the ambitions and contributions of four space station-bound astronauts from the United States, Japan and Russia? A zero-g indicator in the form of an origami ...

Origami cranes are cool, but do you know what’s cooler? Origami cranes dancing to the beat. That’s the challenge [Basami Sentaku] took on when he created Dancing Paper (YouTube link). You might ...

Just when it appeared Ocean Teabag may have had the cutest and quirkiest teabag series around with their giant squid and magical tanuki teabags, Japanese retailer Village Vanguard may have introduced ...

A man who has mastered the art of origami over a period of three years, after learning while visiting a friend in South Korea, is now making some of the tiniest origami cranes we’ve ever seen. David ...

A giant art installation created to look like an origami crane will give concertgoers at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival a welcome relief from the Southern California sun this weekend.

When the students at Cameron Elementary School in West Covina returned to campus last week, they were greeted with a colorful, hopeful flock of 1,000 origami cranes. In Japanese legend, 1,000 origami ...

LOS ANGELES -- An artist in Los Angeles is memorializing each of the thousands of people who have died from covid-19 in the United States with a delicate origami crane. Karla Funderburk started making ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. While origami is generally exhibited in a three-dimensional form, local artist Ira Blount presents eight flat origami ...