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Today the Department of Outstanding Origami is exploring the beautiful work of Hoàng Tiến Quyết
, an origami artist based in Hanoi, Vietnam who creates wonderful paper creatures using an origami technique known as wet-folding. As the name implies, wet-folding employs the use of water to dampen the paper, which makes it more easy to manipulate and adds a sculpting element to the paper-folding process, that would otherwise be completely geometric. To ensure that the paper doesn’t tear, wet-folders often use a thicker paper than is usually used for traditional origami.

To check out more of Hoàng Tiến Quyết
’s wonderful paper creations visit his Facebook page, Flickr account, or follow him right here on Tumblr at htquyet.

[via Design Taxi]