17 Amazing/Beautiful Examples Of Origami Art
The other day, we did a post on 16 Origami tutorials, which were easy and fun. This time, this list is about amazing and beautiful origami art. If you’ve gone through those tutorials, but need inspiration, look no further. Enjoy these 17 examples of beautiful, amazing origami art! And oh, don’t forget to save this post to Delicious!
Note: All of the following images are copyright of their respective owners, and I have linked them to where I found them. That out of the way, enjoy! 
1. Paper Crane
A beautiful and elegant paper crane. Who wouldn’t think this is real?
2. Yoda
Star Wars!
3. Triceratops
Triceratops were an ancient herbivorous dinosaur. Brilliant.
4. Star Wars Origami
Star Wars, Origami style!
5. Bird
Isn’t it the cutest thing? 
6. A Thousand Cranes…
Jaw dropping.
7. “Red Bull” Cranes
Cranes of a Red Bull…
8. Paper Lamp
A paper lamp, Origami style. Creative, and outstanding
9. Modular Origami
Modular origami is an origami technique in which multiple sheets of paper are used to create larger and more complex structures than possible with a single sheet of paper. This art can be difficult to master, but produces beautiful results, as the one you see above!
10. Paper Lion
A paper lion. Notice the intricate detail of the mane. Don’t forget to save this post to delicious!.
11. More Modular Origami
Another example of beautiful modular origami
12. Woven Ball
This example of origami really shines out. It speaks for it self
13. We’re A Kayakin’!
The adventurous man and his kayak.
14. Paper Dragon
Now is this brilliant or what? It must have taken days of painstaking and meticulous crafting and folding to make. Kudos to the creator of this masterpiece.
15. Pegasus
Pegasus, the winged horse.
16. Dollar Bill T-Shirt
A neat T-Shirt made out of a dollar bill. Here’s a tutorial
17. Dollar Bill Swan
An elegant swan made out of a dollar bill (or two, I’m not sure). But, it does look cool
Your Favourites?
Do you know of any amazing/beautiful/inspirational origami art that might be of interest to the rest of us? What were your favourites from this list? Please do tell us!
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I think I like Pegasus the best, because it looks that I could possibly replicate it one day if I had talent~!
#17 is actually a standard origami crane made with a single dollar bill.
I’ve seen better…these aren’t even the best a google image search will turn up….
poster is rather easily impressed…
that dragon is fairly nice though
Number 13 isn’t a kayake. It’s a man in a singles rowing boat. Kayakes don’t have two oars, and the oar isn’t mounted on the boat in a kayake. Rowing boats do.
Awesome gallery, though.
The dragon is very nice.
Absolutely amazing.
jess
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Traditional Origami is only made from a single, perfect square of folded paper.
Most of these are nontraditional, but still amazing works of art. If I had to guess, Pegasus, the bird, and the lion may be traditional.
We made 1000 cranes once for a wedding. It’s much more difficult than it sounds. I believe there is a story about a Zen student making 1000 cranes as a lesson in patience.
Great post, thank you.
You should fold the dollar bills shirts into a clothing line and sell it to rappers.
wow… looks great.
shame you didn’t include details of the creators…
Love it.
In a related matter you might like an origami based animation I helped make: http://tinyurl.com/8solfx
Your footnote comments are very, very annoying.
“The adventurous man and his kayak.”
“Now is this brilliant or what? It must have taken days ”
When you don’t know what to say… just don’t say anything!
Quite a few of those, including the jedis and the dragon are works of Satoshi Kamiya, one of the world’s greatest (and youngest!) origami masters. If you want to see some incredible stuff, check out his book, as he has other, completely different dragons, as well as amazing works.
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The dragon is very nice..
they are pretty cool.
As one of the commenters above pointed out, many of these aren’t pure (one sheet of paper) origami, but they’re very beautiful. My favorite origami site is http://www.xanderfolds.com/ where there are some amazing original origami designs. I’ve got some photos of his creations on my photoblog as well.
they are pretty cool..
This post seems like a buzz marketing of Redbull… can you see it?
These are wonderful. I love paper lamp this is very marvelous. Where can I order one???
Most of these models are traditional origami, and are folded from single uncut squares. Some of the authors are:
Habitiat Lightshade by Jane Norcross (non traditional, glue)
1) Crane by Roman Diaz (single square)
2) Yoda by Fumiaki Kawahata (single square)
3) Triceratops v2 by Fumiaki Kawahata (single square)
4) Above Yoda model, 2 Jedis, modified from Wizard by Kamiya Satoshi, all single squares
5) Little Bird by Kamiya Satoshi (single square)
6) Traditional crane (single square)
7) Traditional crane (single square)
9) Modules, not sure…
10) Lion by Kamiya Satoshi (single square)
11) Modules, not sure…
12) Modules, not sure…
13) Not sure on this one
14) Ryu Zin 3.1 by Kamiya Satoshi (single square – honestly!)
15) Pegasus by Fumiaki Kawahata (single square)
16) Traditional Dollar bill fold
17) Traditional Dollar bill fold
The modules are probably folded from single squares, but I’m not much of an expert on modular origami.
Fishy
So amazing
thanks
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The dragon is very nice..
I think that mens et manus ,phoenix and ancient dragon is the best origami`s
Not that I’m impressed a lot, but this is a lot more than I expected for when I stumpled upon a link on Delicious telling that the info is quite decent. Thanks.
Where can someone purchase this kind of art? (I don’t want to make it; I want to buy it!)
wich one u wanna by?
the picture
so beautiful
but i can do more than the man
hahahaha
Wow!. . . CooL OrGami. . . “I totally Love it”. . .
Honestly You are Great –. . .??? ?Whoever Make that!!!???
gen.gurl09
arigato…now i think i can make one…but still have to search for more info about it…that’s our subject in class for tommorow…watashi-no namae sakura megumi des…arigato
@fishgoth, moduels are made of many square sheets of paper.