ORU are a set of 16 large-format commercial magazines published between 1993-1997. They all contain many articles about design, designers and techniques, alongside beautiful photos, with many diagrams in the back.

Articles

Photos of Various Swiss Army knives

"America" series - Mark W. Kennedy and his magnificent jewelery

John Montroll's work - with lots of photos

Young artists: Munenori Ishihara, Naoto Noguchi and Satoshi Kamiya's work (neat Sumo wrestlers)

Folding a large fan

Old diagrams of folding Japanese personages

Mathematical section (?) seems to discuss getting more points from your paper (?)

Weaving

The traditional Junk fold

Tigers - Nishikawa's tigers (with a nice example of a crane with a tiger's face)

Wild boars by Akira Yoshizawa with beautiful b&w photos

Geometric folds and tessellations

A sundial to cut and fold

A religious ceremony involving very big paper hats There are 17 Origami Designs in ORU Magazine 7: Design Designer Page Details Photo Show only designs with photos Wild boar Mammals - Suidae - Pigs and Boars Akira Yoshizawa 96 Square Folded from a square of art paper by Gilad Aharoni Wild boar Mammals - Suidae - Pigs and Boars Akira Yoshizawa 97 Square Sundial Objects - Useful Jun Maekawa 103 Square To cut and fold Raccoon Mammals - Procyonidae - Raccoons John Montroll 125 Square Also in Origami Gone Wild by John Montroll Also in Origami Inside-Out by John Montroll Also in Origami Journal (Russian) 19 1999 5 Folded by Gilad Aharoni Tiger Mammals - Felidae - Tigers and Leopards Seiji Nishikawa 131 Square Also in Origami El Mundo Nuevo by Kunihiko Kasahara Also in Works of Seiji Nishikawa by Seiji Nishikawa Folded by Gilad Aharoni Smile! People - Anatomic parts Masaya Horiguchi 135 Square Also in A Arte dos Mestres de Origami by Mari Kanegae Lips and full set of teeth - one of my favorites Folded by Gilad Aharoni Pig Mammals - Suidae - Pigs and Boars Yamada Katsuhisa 139 Square Crimson plum Flora - Flowers Tomoko Tanaka 146 Square Multiple units Swan Birds - Anseriformes - Swans Toshio Chino 147 Square Stegosaurus Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals - Jurassic - Stegosaurus Takai Hiroaki 149 Square Also in NOA Magazine 219 Cute and spiky Folded from a square of India Gold scrapbooking paper by Gilad Aharoni Snake Reptiles - Snakes Kunihiko Kasahara 151 Square Woven Frog Amphibians Kunihiko Kasahara 152 Rectangle - Long strip Woven Eskimo People - Ethnicities Kunihiko Kasahara 153 Square Kusudama Geometric and other shapes Makoto Yamaguchi 155 Square 60 units Wild boar Mammals - Suidae - Pigs and Boars Makoto Yamaguchi 157 Square Party box Boxes and Containers Abe Hisashi 158 Rectangle - A size Masu box Boxes and Containers Traditional 159 Square Also in Beginner Origami by Yoshihide Momotani Also in Creative Origami and Beyond Also in Enjoy Origami in English (Joy of Origami!) by Satoshi Takagi Also in NOA Magazine 134 Also in NOA Magazine 152 Also in NOA Magazine 165 Also in NOA Magazine 167 and in other sources... Folded by Lou Pearson