Press

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.

Featured Articles

• Origami in United Arab Emirates [Arabic]
  My visit to Abu Dhabi, in United Arab Emirates, and a lecture presented at the Higher Colleges of Technology.
• Adding an Origami Doodle to the Fold
  The Google Doodle for March 14, 2012, honored Akira Yoshizawa by folding their logo from origami. I designed and folded it. (See also here.)
• Humble paper becomes high art in hands of East Bay origami master
  An article about me in my old stomping ground (Silicon Valley)'s paper. There's a slideshow here (which starts off with a mysterious 10-year-old photo).
• A Giant Origami Forest for Conservation International
  An origami forest folded by me and Linda Mihara for Conservation International, event hosted by Harrison Ford
• The Big Idea: Extreme Origami (National Geographic)
  An article and pictures of origami and its applications to science and technology, include a project I worked on, and a photograph and crease pattern for "Alamo Stallion, opus 384".
• 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.
• 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.
• Green Fuse Films: Between the Folds
  Home page of Green Fuse Films, the producers of the Peabody award-winning origami documentary, "Between the Folds". Read all about the film, see some production stills, and order a DVD.

Other Articles

• Artist folds science into origami
  In June, I lectured at the IUPAC World Polymer Congress on (what else?) connections between origami, art, math, and science.
• PIMS Chats with Robert Lang
  A visit to the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.
• New UCSC origami exhibit examines the intersection of math and the ancient Japanese art of folding paper
  The UCSC exhibition opens. See this also in the Mercury News.
• Paper Shapers
  More about the UCSC exhibition, with interviews with Erik Demaine and myself.
• Origami Math: Computational artists to show off paper masterpieces in tribute to UCSC professor
  Article about an exhibition I'm in at UC Santa Cruz (along with Erik Demaine, Brian Chan, and a work by the late great Eric Joisel).
• Origami on a monumental scale
  A review of a lecture I gave at Lafayette Library.
• East Bay origami master gets Google boost
  Discusses the Google Doodle and associated art stuff.
• Robert J. Lang: The Art of Origami
  A brief interview about origami, math, and their connections.
• American applied the art for telescope better than Hubble
  A brief interview with me about origami's similarity to music and a description of the Eyeglass. (The headline is a bit overstated, I'd say.)
• The Mind-Bending Artistry of Robert Lang
  An article with pictures from the Stanford Alumni Magazine.
• Artist of the Week: Robert J. Lang
  Pictures and a short interview.
• Sharp Objex: Art Interview with Robert J. Lang
  An interview and pictures of some of my origami work.
• 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.
• 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" information.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
  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.