This page contains links to a number of articles about my origami work in recent years. There's also a few videos sprinkled among them.

Origami updated for the 21st century
An article and pictures from the British newspaper Metro.

Systm: Insane Origami [video]
An internet TV interview on technical design, laser scribing, and satellites in origami.

TED.com: Idea + Square = Origami [video]
In March, 2008, I was invited to give an 18-minute talk at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in Monterey. Here's my talk.

Lord of the Folds
A report by Brian Fisher Johnson from an interview at the OrigamiUSA 2008 Annual Convention.

iPath Ad: the Making Of [video]
In 2008 I designed and folded some figures for an ad for a financial instrument. The producers put together this little "making-of" video.

Masters of Origami and Shapers of the Lifelike
A review in the New York Times of the "Paper Transformed" exhibition at the Parrish Museum, which includes some of my work.

Origami Master
Diablo Magazine has a nice article with a bunch of pictures of my work.

One sheet of paper and a lot of patience
Debbie Hadley's About.com blog talks about my origami insects.

Origami Transformed
An article about computational origami, with appearances by me, Brian Chan, and Erik Demaine.

Illustration Revealed
A short interview with blogger and scientific illustrator Janet Chao.

KGO ABC 7 News, "Taking origami into the future" [video]
A short interview that shows some of my laser-scribed origami figures.

CNN, "Science of origami" [video]
A 4-minute interview with Kristie Lu Stout about how I use mathematical principles in origami design.

TED 2008 Conference
At the end of March I gave a talk at the TED conference in Monterey. This is a brief review. See more reviews here.

Folding the Mac into Origami
Most of my origami computer work has been done on some flavor of Macintosh computer. Apple.com tells you about it.

Wired Science, "The Origami Master" [video]
A 5-minute segment on my work using computational origami to design art and technological objects.

The Institute (IEEE), "The Physics of Folding Paper"
A profile by Anna Bogdanowicz.

Smithsonian Magazine, "Into the Fold"
Smithsonian writer Beth Jensen wrote an article about me, circle packing, and modern origami design.

New York Times Magazine, "An Origami Flag" [video]
The Times Magazine asked 10 artists to design "green" flags to illustrate Thomas L. Friedman's cover story. Here's how I created mine.

CBS News Sunday Morning [video]
This links to a video segment that CBS produced on a visit to my studio and to the Mingei Museum in San Diego, where I folded a monumental dragon.

Folding the Giant Pteranodon
A writeup and series of progress photographs from my folding of a 16-foot wingspan origami Pteranodon for a permanent installation at the Redpath Museum of Natural History at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Contra Costa Times, "Physicist leaves artistic paper trail"
Writer Jennifer Modenessi interviewed me for our local newspaper group.

New Yorker Magazine, "The Origami Lab"
New Yorker writer Susan Orlean ("The Orchid Thief") wrote an article about me, the Bug Wars, and the modern world of origami.

New Yorker online, "Know When to Fold 'Em" [audio+slides]
Here Susan Orlean talks about the preceding article.

Discover Magazine, "Extreme Origami"
An article by Discover magazine writer Jennifer Kahn about technical folding and its practitioners, including me.

Virgin America's "Name Our Planes" website
In 2006, I was commissioned to design an origami version of an Airbus A320 for a Virgin America promotion. You can download instructions to fold your own airplane (and put your name on it) here.

Assyrian Bull at the University of Chicago
The University of Chicago Magazine commissioned an origami sculpture of a statue at the Oriental Institute. This articles describes my design process and shows the result.

Gathering 4 Gardner 7 Conference
This article from the New York Times describes the Gathering 4 Gardner 7 Conference in Atlanta, which featured magicians, puzzlists, mathematicians -- and origami.

Open Source Conference [video]
A video interview from the 2005 Game Developer's Conference in San Jose.

Open Source Conference
Here's an article about a talk I gave at the 2005 O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland.

Green Fuse Films: Exploring Origami
Home page of Green Fuse Films, the producers of the film "Exploring Origami". Read all about the film and see some production stills.

The Connection [audio]
A radio call-in show on which I appeared in 2004. There is a link to replay the broadcast.

ComputerWorld
An article in ComputerWorld magazine about some of the scientific connections to origami.

Artist in Residence at MIT
In 2004 I was invited to be artist-in-residence at MIT, where I worked with Professor Erik Demaine and taught several workshopes on origami composition and design.

Boston Globe
A nice article in the Boston Globe about the public lecture I gave during my artist-in-residence at MIT.

Patriot Ledger
The Patriot Ledger's take on the same lecture and visit.

The Institute for Figuring
This is an advertisement for a talk I gave in Los Angeles about the mathematics and science of origami. It contains some interesting downloads, and links to further articles in LA Weekly and The New York Times about origami and mathematics.

Quark Soup
Margaret Wertheim's column in the Los Angeles Weekly surveys various topics in technology and popular culture. This column talks about technical origami, including work by Hull, Kamiya, Mosely, me, and others.

California Connected [video]
A TV appearance I made for a local PBS station, on a program hosted by Sydnie Kohara. There's a link to streaming video of the show.

Complexity Increases (Again)
In 1989, I wrote an article for the Caltech magazine Engineering & Science about the burgeoning field of technical folding and made a couple of speculations about the future. In 2004, I revisited the topic in this article and how some of the wilder speculations had actually come to pass.

The Sentinel
An article in our local paper about my exhibition at the Lindsay Wildlife Museum in 2003.

In The Fold
Barry Cipra's article for SIAM News appeared in 2001, reviewing some of the work presented at the 3rd Origami Science and Mathematics Meeting in 2001.

Exploratorium
This article by Dana Mackenzie describes several of the new directions of origami, including work by Jeremy Shafer, myself, and others.

Space.com
An article about the Livermore Eyeglass telescope and the work that I did on it.

Wired Magazine
Wired magazine did a nice two-page spread of my composite (multi-sheet) composition, Allosaurus Skeleton. The link above gives the photo caption, but no photograph, but you can see the actual thing here.