Origami has a lot of aspects that follow the characteristics of design, such as the construction of the object as a whole from simple pieces of paper. Paper is used in our everyday life, and yet it has the ability to become a work of art and design. We see paper as just an ordinary flat object, in which we use for millions of things in our society, but when you take this object and create a origami piece; it becomes a work of 3 dimensional design.
Origami fuses many pieces of papers together in creation of one piece, it can also be made from a single piece paper; it just simply depends on what you’re making. There are endless designs out there for origami, but it is something not so easy to do. It takes precision paper folding with a lot of variables that comes in to play such as the size of the paper and the color.
There are many figures that we see paper becoming through origami, but we have to consider the minds that originated this technique skill. I mean how were they able to fold the paper so precise in a way with other papers in which to create the famous origami crane, a rather complicated and delicate looking piece. It's the minds of the creator that simply saw a vision through paper and took it upon design to create the art we call origami today. The picture you see above was actually a gift to me made by my girlfriend. It consists of 12 flowers, each flower took 5 pieces of paper to make; so overall it took 60 pieces of papers to make that piece. As you can see from that piece the complexity of origami through paper plays a sense of trying to obtain what we see in our minds into a form of design.