Puma Head - Román Díaz, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

If you haven’t already heard, Román Díaz has a new book coming out very soon. 34 designs! I know I’m excited.

He was awesome enough to send us a set of diagrams anyway! Here is Román’s Puma Head.

Puma Head - Román Díaz

It is fun to fold, and for those of you who require lots of reference points, they’re included. And they’re nice and simple.

The rendition in the photo was folded by Eric Madrigal. Thank you Eric and Román!

Cormorant, by Andrew Hudson, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

This week we've got a design I've been thinking about for awhile: the cormorant I made at the end of July. I refolded it last weekend with nicer paper, and decided it was time to diagram the model... so here it is!

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/232756/cormorant.pdf

EZ Tessellation - Evan Zodl, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

This week we have Evan Zodl's EZ Tessellation. Nice wordplay.

You might say these are full diagrams for a simple tessellation. Sorry Evan, I had no need for a tessellation with your initials :) That is one of the cool features of this design. Its customizability. I've changed it to the initials OW for Origami Weekly.

EZ Tessellation - Evan Zodl

You can also fold up the panels in the back similarly.

For a neat effect, try rotating the paper before pulling up the panels, and instead, bringing them down.

It looks pretty cool backlit too, but you need to do the mirror image.