Yasin says. That was the beginning of Petit Pli, Yasin’s new line of origami-inspired children’s garments that grow with the wearer. A Petit Pli garment can fit a child from about three months ...

He'd done a little origami as a child, but nothing sophisticated. He started folding one model after another, fooling around on weekends. Making a kayak shape was relatively easy, but a second set ...

The origami-inspired valve operates at different ... This flexibility allows the valve to accommodate a child’s natural growth, eliminating the need for multiple invasive surgeries to replace ...

Origami. In all shapes and sizes ... learned that every five seconds, a child died around the world from a lack of clean water and that girls their age couldn’t go to school because they ...

We live in the age of the internet, the I-pad child who has infinite entertainment videos and games at the swipe of a finger. But if you give them an origami flapping bird you can really see their ...

I was so glad I couldn’t help crying,” he said of his rice plants. “Mr. Yoshizawa took origami from a child’s plaything to an art form,” said Jan Polish, a board member of Origami USA ...

Lisa S. Douglass’s artistic journey with Origami began not with personal mastery, but with her son’s unexpected discovery of ...

She began folding as a child in the 1950s and ’60s, but finding origami paper was difficult (and expensive). “I folded with the lined paper you do your homework on, or blank white typing paper ...

The intricately folded designs aren't just for decoration, and they go way beyond the cranes you might have whipped up as a child. These origami provide the inspiration for the researchers ...