Press: videos
Physicist 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 Story“The Mathematics of Origami” Soft Robotics Podcast With Marwa ElDiwiny
A video podcast with Marwa ElDiwiny for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Organization.
Travel Channel China
Travel Channel China put together a short presentation of my work in their episode “Go As Far As You Can,” which aired in January 2019. My work starts at about 19:00. (Needs the Adobe Flash plugin to view.)
See Full StoryKent Presents: Lecture and interview by Harold Varmus
A lecture by me, followed by an interview by Harold Varmus on the connections between origami, math, science, and technology.
See Full StoryChinese game show “Superbrain” features origami [in Chinese]
In March 2018 I was invited to Nanjing, China, to be one of the “course-setters” for a Chinese game show, “Superbrain”, in which two teams of contestants compete in various types of mental challenge, and the one I was involved in required examining origami crease patterns with spots on them and estimating how many of the spots would be visible on the outside of the folded model.
You have to wait through out 45 seconds of commercials to get to the show. The origami stuff starts showing up at about 40:00 in.
See Full StoryScience Museum Oklahoma’s new exhibit ‘Into the Fold’ reveals ‘The Art and Science of Origami’
Science Museum Oklahoma’s new exhibit “Into the Fold: The Art and Science of Origami,” features a wide array of origami creations (including some of mine). Photos and video are at the link below.
See Full StoryOrigami Live: British Origami Society 50th Anniversary Guests Interview
At the BOS 50th Anniversary Convention (and incidentally, the 50th anniversary of my own involvement with origami), I sat down with Paul Jackson, Tomoko Fuse, and Giang Dinh (fellow guests of the convention) to talk about origami art and how it has changed and evolved.
See Full StoryOrigami Master: Robert J. Lang
A profile by professional videographer Christopher Helkey.
See Full StoryOrigami Masterworks: Innovative forms in the art of paper folding
A documentary on the groundbreaking 2003 exhibition of origami at the Mingei Museum in San Diego, which was one of the early major exhibitions of origami in a fine art space.
See Full StoryRobert Lang – Origami – Entrevista com Marcio Okabe
During a recent trip to Brazil, I did an interview with a Brazilian origami aficionado, Marcio Okabe. His introduction is in Portuguese, but when we get into the interview, it’s in English.
See Full StorySinovision
A short interview put together by Sinovision (with Chinese subtitles).
See Full StoryCNN’s “Great Big Story”
CNN did an interview with me in which they showed (and I talked about) connections between math, science, origami, and art. See also their Facebook posting.
See Full StoryPBS NOVA: “The Origami Revolution”
PBS’s landmark series NOVA devoted an entire episode to the applications of origami in science, engineering, and technology. Based on the French/German documentary, “The Origami Code.”
See Full StoryOrigami Master Robert Lang, in the making of “Check”
A “making-of” video, showing the work I did to develop a set of origami-themed commercial videos. It involved both designing origami figures and hand-modeling their folding.
See Full StoryIn Time-Lapse Videos, the Magic Unfolds
Robert Ito at the New York Times writes about the modern art of origami and the evolution of online tutorials and resources. Contains a slideshow with images from my exhibition at Art Center.
See Full StoryRobert Lang: Art and Science
An interview I gave at the Origami in Art and Engineering workshop at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014.
See Full StoryRobert Lang: Intro to Students
Part II of an interview I gave at the Origami in Art and Engineering workshop at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014.
See Full StoryRobert Lang: Origami Applications
Part III of an interview I gave at the Origami in Art and Engineering workshop at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014.
See Full StoryOrigami master Robert J. Lang and sculptor Kevin Box unfold the Pegasus
Just what the title says! We proved that our Pegasus was folded from a single uncut square by unfolding one live.
See Full StoryKAZ: Pushing The Virtual Divide – Gran Turismo Documentary (Full Movie)
A 2014 film by documentarian Tamir Moscovici about the Playstation game “Gran Turismo” and creativity. I and some origami show up at the 25:00 point in the video. There’s also a Vimeo link here.
See Full StoryOrigami in Space: BYU-designed solar arrays inspired by origami
For several years from 2012 onward, I worked with researchers at the Compliant Mechanisms Laboratory at Brigham Young University, developing origami-based and origami-inspired mechanisms. This video shows some of our work, include a concept for a NASA solar array based on the “flasher” concept developed by Chris Palmer, Jeremy Shafer, David Huffman, Simon Guest, and others.
See Full StoryFolding on the water
I recently had the pleasure of going on a Lindblad Expeditions cruise in Southeast Alaska where I saw more amazing wildlife that I could have ever imagined. During lulls between bubble-netting humpbacks and beachcombing brown bears, National Geographic photographer Rich Reid was giving tips, techniques, and demonstrations, and at one point he set up a time-lapse of me folding belowdecks.
Rich is a fan of surf music; background provided by Surf Report, used with permission.
See Full StoryBBC Radio: Boston Calling
BBC World Service does a quick interview as part of their half-hour show.
Origami Master Robert J.Lang and Sculptor Kevin Box Unfold their Bison Collaboration
Kevin Box and I unfold a Bison. Yes, it’s really a single uncut square.
See Full StoryGreen 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 an excerpt and some production stills, and order a DVD.
See Full StoryThe Amazing Origami of Robert Lang
A video presentation from Wired Magazine.
See Full StoryiPath Ad: the Making Of iPath Origami
In 2008 I designed and folded some figures for an ad for a financial instrument. The producers put together this little “making-of” information.
See Archived StoryKGO ABC 7 News, “Taking origami into the future” [video]
A short interview that shows some of my laser-scribed origami figures.
See Full StoryCNN, “Science of origami”
A 4-minute interview with Kristie Lu Stout about how I use mathematical principles in origami design.
2018-08-07: It’s gone.
Square—Folds—Life: Contemporary Origami by Robert J. Lang
A video made in connection with my exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2008.
See Full StoryTED.com: Idea + Square = Origami
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.
See Full StoryCBS News Sunday Morning
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.
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 StoryInterview with Origami Master Robert Lang [in German]
An interview I did with the German TV station NZZ. I’m speaking in English, but the voiceover is German.
See Full StoryNew York Times Magazine, “An Origami Flag”
The Times Magazine asked 10 artists to design “green” flags to illustrate Thomas L. Friedman’s cover story. Here’s how I created mine.
Open Source Conference: Presentation
A video interview from the 2005 Game Developer’s Conference in San Jose.