origami joel

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Joel Cooper makes paper masks using origami tessellation techniques – one sheet of paper, no cuts. Materials Needed: Pre-Creased Paper. Patience. Good Eyesight. Patience. Twelve Hours. Patience. Steady Hands. Patience. Talent. Oh, and did I mention Patience?

origami mask

Origami Joel has a blog.

mask in progress

A mask in progress. You can see many more masks on his Flickr site.

another ‘work in progress’ picture

Quick tesselation tutorial here.

4 Responses to origami joel
  1. Kathi
    November 30, 2007 | 12:37 pm

    no cuts??? oy. this is mind blowing and I haven’t even gone to his blog or flickr site yet!

  2. Judy Dunn
    November 30, 2007 | 1:44 pm

    Susan, Thank you for sharing this. I am fascinated by tessellation. I want to find sometime, eventually, to play around with it.

  3. Mariane S.
    November 30, 2007 | 5:56 pm

    Origami ? No cuts ? Magic fingers !…
    Thank you so much for this moment of pure Art …

  4. Diana
    December 1, 2007 | 6:57 am

    You always find the coolest things! Thank you so much!

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