By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics

If you love geometry, you can let everyone know by wearing dodecahedra with elegance and style!

These dresses with sewn-on paper polyhedra embellishments were designed by Amila Hrustic.

I’m not sure…

These enchanting origami holiday cards by Tomomi Sayuda come as kits complete with folding instructions and an illuminating LED. The series is called 12 Folds because each one requires 12 folds to transform it into a beautiful luminous orb. There are …

By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics

If you take a long strip of paper, tie a simple overhand knot in it, tighten it up, and press it flat, the result is a regular pentagon.

That construction is well known, and can be found, for example,…

oschene posted a photo:

Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this beautiful modular origami construction, à la Tomoko Fuse, from user fdecomite. Its formal title, Giant short nanotube, provides a rare opportunity to observe a double oxymoron in the wild.

More:Math Monday…

stars and leaves, originally uploaded by Imagirom.

Saw this beautiful piece by Imagirom, a newcomer to our Origami Tessellations group on Flickr.
He’s been folding some great things lately, and this one really struck me. I like the way it’s an…

Via the BB Submitterator, Boing Boing reader Philip Chapman-Bell shares this wonderful photo of an origami frog crafted from the FBI seal—which, as regular readers may recall, the FBI recently decreed that no one may publish (and certainly not Wik…

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Last week’s story about the FBI sending a threatening letter to Wikipedia (perhaps because of that wiki-thing in their name?) reminded me of Æsop’s fable about the frog who wanted to be as big as an ox — the frog kept swal…

oschene posted a photo:

A very nice model, indeed.

Nice field of origami butterflies.