Tag: Origami ideas

15 posts

  • Origami baseball card
    If you fold a baseball card into an origami crane, this is what it looks like. The origami is quite tiny. Using an X-Acto blade, I peeled a baseball card into two parts. I folded the front of the card…
  • My new gallery—a large flat stone in the Park District
    Thinking about what artwork I can leave on this rock
  • Discovering urban origami in the wild
    Is this trash or transformation? This discarded packaging took on the form of a bird mid-flight. An unintentional sculpture, crafted by the city itself. Discover the story behind this urban origami.
  • Garbage that looks like origami
    Origami scattered about on the bathroom floor at work. Overflowing from the wastebasket little unintentional creations lie strewn about. Crumbled paper towels lying on the floor look just like origami creations. What if someone actually folded a bunch of paper…
  • A little more permanent origami
    While walking to the train in the light snow/rain, an empty lot with lots of rocks and plants always grabs my attention. This lot reminds me of the empty lot next to my apartment of 13 years. I have the…
  • Folding a round paper plate into square box
    Most origami starts with a square sheet of paper. The corners of the square are integral to shapes and folding lines. Would it be possible to fold a ROUND sheet of paper into a SQUARE box? And not just any…
  • Using panoramic photo prints as origami paper
    Today I was thinking about how I love photographing panoramic photos. Wouldn’t it be cool if I could make origami with these panoramic images? But origami is mostly done with square-shaped paper. Not long sheets of paper. Bummer—but wait! There…
  • Origami made from McDonalds bag
    Transform your fast food paper bag into an origami creation that will change the way you eat food, and how you view your time. While sitting in the McDonalds next to the Trump Tower, I folded my McDonalds bag into…
  • What if everyone always made an origami creature out of every receipt?
    What if our culture made it a tradition that you always took your paper receipt and folded it into an origami? Forget that it would be pointless. Forget the time involved to do with with every transaction. This would simply…
  • Army of caterpillars and origami butterflies: nature and public art in Chicago
    An army of caterpillars somehow got onto the median of a busy tourist street in Chicago. How was such an unusual sight discovered? Why through origami butterflies, of course! Being freshly married two weeks ago, we have about four hundred…
  • The day I wrapped a tree branch with the galaxy
    Every artist has their go-to methods when creativity runs dry. Tools like sketchpads. Working in locations like coffee shops. For me one of my methods is to make artwork to place on the front of Tribune Tower. 149 rocks from…
  • Placing origami postcards inside Walgreens with a walgreenslistens receipt
    Transform the fun of tourist postcards into something beyond their normal function. Buy a tourist postcard and then fold it into a paper origami and leave it at the same postcard rack in the store. Make sure to leave the…
  • How many artworks does it take for a series to become epic?
    An art series gets epic when there are 100 items in the series. Do you have any art series that has more than 100 photos? I have one. My HDR photos of Chicago is currently up to 190 photos. Let’s…
  • Art made in art museums (13 projects)
    Current museum projects I’ve got several art projects that take place in art museums. Last summer I got reciprocal art museum pass from the Walker Art Center and it allows me to go into over 400 art museums nationwide. With…
  • Be an Origami McGyver: A sheet of paper can solve any of your problems
    Got a load of blueberries you need to carry? Whip out a sheet of paper and make an origami box. Be an Origami McGyver and tranform that stack of paper into whatever you need at the moment. Need a garbage…