Everyone loves the anticipation of tearing open a meticulously wrapped gift, but this age-old practice leads to a lot of garbage. If every American home wrapped just three gifts a year in reusable ...

Portland-based design studio Ilovehandles has created wrapping paper that can have an afterlife as origami figures, to avoid the mess and waste associated with ripping the paper off presents. Each ...

Want to do someting different this holiday season to decorate your gifts or your candles? Try origami. Watch this video where gift stylist Carol Kim demonstrates how to make an origami lotus flower to ...

With the holidays here, you probably have that last minute task of wrapping gifts for family and friends. But if you suddenly run out of sticky tape halfway through the task, it can feel like a ...

Are you in a cold sweat attempting to wrap a mountain of gifts before heading to the holiday party? For the quickest way to wrap a gift, turn to the Japanese art of origami — and use less supplies ...

Members of the Lifelong Learning Community Institute at the Delray Beach Public Library recently learned about the Japanese arts of origami and colorful cloth gift wrapping. Reiko Nishioka, director ...

Buoyed by the success of her book on Japanese-inspired gift wrapping, Sonoma resident Megumi Lorna Inouye will be offering a workshop for adults of all skill levels. As a first-time author, she never ...

Don’t let wasteful giftwrap put a damper on your holiday season. Copenhagen-based design studio Frensk developed Dono, an eco-friendly wrapping alternative that promotes both recycling and aesthetics.

A Christmas-paper chase in Rockefeller Center turned into a stunning upset yesterday when the favorites in a gift-wrapping contest were left holding the bag. The expected winners of the Scotch Brand’s ...

Kit Kat is undeniably one of Japan’s most popular chocolate bars and souvenirs, especially with a myriad of country-exclusive flavours like wasabi, sake and Okinawan purple sweet potato. But, sheathed ...