Akira Yoshizawa (吉澤 章 Yoshizawa Akira; 14 March 1911 – 14 March 2005) was a Japanese origamist, considered to be the grandmaster of origami. He is credited with raising origami from a craft to a living art. According to his own estimation made in 1989, he created more than 50,000 models, of whi ...
Makoto Yamaguchi (山口 真 Yamaguchi Makoto; Born in Tokyo in 1944), the Chairperson of Origami House, has taken an active part in origami as a professional creator after working with the Nippon Origami Association. In 1989, he opened "Gallery Origami House", a venue to showcase the works of origami ...
(b. 1974, France)A psychotherapist with a background in engineering and molecular chemistry, Nicolas Terry discovered origami as a child and in 2002 started creating his own designs, beginning with a snail. Since then, he has designed numerous forms, mostly of animals, given presentations, and ...
Sipho Mabona is a Swiss origami master. He started making paper planes when he was just five years old but ran out of designs for the planes by the time he was 15 and turned to other inspirations. Mabona was the first-ever foreigner to have his work grace the cover of the official magazine of the Ja ...
Tomoko Fuse (布施 知子, Fuse Tomoko, born in Niigata, 1951) is a Japanese origami artist and author of numerous books on the subject of modular origami, and is by many considered as a renowned master in such discipline.She has created numerous origami designs, including boxes, kusudama, paper ...
Jun Maekawa (前川 淳 Maekawa Jun, 1958-) is a Japanese software engineer, mathematician, and origami artist. He is known for popularizing the method of utilizing crease patterns in designing origami models, with his 1985 publication Viva Origami, as well as other paperfolding-related theorems and m ...
Hojyo Takashi is a young Japanese origami artist. He is an exception - by moving away from the standard pointy-bit insect models that just about every complex designer thinks they need to come up with, he has developed a signature style which is unique. One of his famous design is developing of a h ...
John Montroll is an American origami artist, author, teacher, and mathematician. He has written many books on origami. Montroll has taught at St. Anselm's Abbey School in Washington, D.C. since 1990.Montroll mastered his first origami book, Isao Honda's How to make Origami, at the age of six, ...
(b.1977, Japanese) Hideo Komatsu began folding origami at the age of three and became passionate about it in elementary school after reading the book Viva Origami (1983) by Kunihiko Kasahara, which featured works by Jun Maekawa. He later became a member of the Japanese group Tanteidan (Origami Det ...
Roman Diaz was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and lived in Argentina, Honduras, and Mozambique as a child. During his travels Diaz occasionally experimented with origami. He returned to Uruguay, completed his studies and became a veterinarian. Fascinated by the possibilities of origami, he started de ...