Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month.Become a Plus Member Origami has always been an artform that’s fun to watch. But now one Swiss artist ...

Origami artist Sipho Mabona and his crew spent four weeks carefully folding a 50-by-50-foot sheet of paper into a 10-foot-tall elephant sculpture, showing the artistic potential of a single sheet of ...

Asia Society partners with the Wildlife Conservation Society, Tuttle Publishing and others to break the Guinness World Records for the largest display of origami elephants. The goal is to produce ...

Artist Sipho Mabona has taken origami to the next level by creating a life-sized paper elephant! The oversized animal was folded from one single, albeit giant, piece of paper. Mabona raised the ...

Origami artist Sipho Mabona is seeking funding to craft a life-sized elephant from a single piece of paper. Mabona, who has made a living from his origami art, wants to use a sheet of paper measuring ...

When people think origami, they tend to imagine small, artfully folded creations. But artist Sipho Mabona wants to do something much bigger and much more exciting. He’s planning to make a life-size ...

Sipho Mabona is an origami artist with a singular vision. He wants to spend several weeks of his life folding a life-sized elephant at an art museum in Beromünster, Switzerland. “My main goal is to ...

A world-record stampede of origami elephants has descended on the Bronx Zoo, as part of a campaign to raise awareness about poaching. The collection of 78,564 broke the Guinness World Record for the ...

The Louisville Zoo is moving on two fronts to promote the effort to save the elephants. On Friday, Aug. 12, the zoo will celebrate World Elephant Day. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. zoo docents will present ...