The purpose of this study is to describe the experience of implementing origami as a didactic tool for training designers in Escuela Superior de Diseño de Valencia.The Japanese origin word origami has always been conditioned by tradition. A new and wider approach is given, as well as to the techniques related to it and its implementation in designers training.This study describes how the initiative began, and depicts the methodological changes performed for its implementation in the subject ?Image and Design? from an innovative perspective. Both students and teachers, as receiving and driving forces, benefit from this innovative teaching experience.Given their relation with geometry, these paper folding techniques can develop the students? skills, not only those ones connected to it, but also to other fields. This is a very useful tool to approach to the principles three-dimensional design.Finally, the study provides the reasons why the use of these methods, based on the transformation of a laminated surface into volume forms, is appropriate in every design category and is presented as an applicable method in the creative process.