Press: magazine
Mathematical Methods in Origami: A Path From Math to Art
An autobiographical story of my path to a career combining origami and mathematics, written for SIAM, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
See Full StoryThe Master Origami Artist Whose Collection Turned to Ash in Altadena
The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town” feature did a short interview with me about the recent Eaton Fire, which destroyed my studio (and the town of Altadena).
See Full StoryPhysicist Explains Origami in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
In this video, I explain 5 aspects of origami to people ranging from a child to an expert (Thomas Hull, who, being the leading mathematician of origami in the world, is about as expert as they come).
See Full Story11 Levels of Origami: Easy to Complex | WIRED
I take us through 11 levels of origami complexity in a single subject (and one of my favorite origami subjects): a cicada.
See Full StoryQ&A: Robert Lang, origami master
A Q&A with Physics Today on my transition from physics to origami (which, considering the amount of math and technology working its way into origami, now seems to have come full circle).
See Full StoryCool Jobs: The art of paper folding is inspiring science
Rachel Crowell writes about people who are apply origami in their real-life jobs to solve real-world engineering problems.
See Full StoryQ&A: Robert Lang, origami master
Physics Today magazine did a Q&A with me on my transition from physics to origami.
See Full StoryOrigami Inspires New Ways to Fold Curved Objects
Andrew Silver writes for Discovery.com about folding curved surfaces.
See Archived StoryFrom Robots to Retinas: 9 Amazing Origami Applications
douglas main at Popular Science talks about applications of origami and shows work from a variety of artists and scientists.
See Full StoryArt Folds Into Science In Robert Lang’s Extreme Origami
Susan Karlin of Fast Company writes about my origami and shows some imagery from the exhibition at Art Center.
See Full StoryPaper Perfect: Robert Lang and the Science of Origami
In February 2014, Joshua Foer interviewed me. Virginia Quarterly Review published a transcript of the conversation.
See Full StoryThe Mind-Bending Artistry of Robert Lang
An article with pictures from the Stanford Alumni Magazine.
See Full StoryThe 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”.
See Archived StoryThe Amazing Origami of Robert Lang
A video presentation from Wired Magazine.
See Full StoryOrigami Master
Diablo Magazine has a nice article with a bunch of pictures of my work.
See Full StoryWired Science, “The Origami Master” [video]
A 5-minute segment on my work using computational origami to design art and technological objects.
See Archived StoryNew Yorker online, “Know When to Fold ‘Em”
Here Susan Orlean talks about the preceding article.
See Archived StoryThe 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.
See Archived StoryNew 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.
See Full StoryAssyrian 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.
See Full StoryDiscover Magazine, “Extreme Origami”
An article by Discover magazine writer Jennifer Kahn about technical folding and its practitioners, including me.
See Archived StoryThe Mathematics of Paper Folding: An Interview with Robert Lang
An interview by Margaret Wertheim for Cabinet Magazine. The magazine itself is behind a paywall, but you can read the interview on the Institute for Figuring’s own website at the link.
See Full StoryComplexity 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.
ComputerWorld
An article in ComputerWorld magazine about some of the scientific connections to origami.
See Full StoryWired 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.