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No Directions Interview
An interview on Madeline Walsh’s No Directions Substack page.
See Full StoryFolding NASA Experience into an Origamist’s Toolkit
NASA’s spinoff program wrote an article about my work (which started at NASA’s JPL) that ended up (in a fairly roundabout way) in my origami/math/technology work.
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I did a radio interview with Monique Guzmán for the Connected Women of Influence podcast. (Note, though, that I am not a woman of influence ?).
See Full StoryHow Scientists Adapted an Ancient Art Form to Create Nanoscopic Medical Tools
A nice article by Anndee Hochman in WebMD about origami’s influence on and use in medicine.
See Full StoryThe Creative Process
“The Creative Process,” a podcast by Mia Funk and Kooner Kienzle, did an interview in which we talked about creativity in origami and related topics.
See Full StoryJames Webb Space Telescope
The JWST team asked me to design an origami version of JWST. In order to keep it foldable by a reasonable-sized audience, we restricted it to just the parabolic segmented mirror. Download the pattern from the link for folding.
See Full StoryOrigami artist Robert J. Lang combines art and science to create masterpieces
An article from The Burg, the local paper of Lynchburg.
See Full StoryFrom cranes to cuckoo clocks, a new technique helping origami masters
Sydney Morning Herald wrote an article in connection with my lectures and workshops as part of The Poladian Project (in honor of the late professor Leon Poladian) at the University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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.
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An interview on origami art and design.
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 StoryAtlas Obscura: Origami Intersections
Atlas Obscura, the web’s best destination for cool places to visit in person, adds a page about one of the first professional origami projects I did: crease patterns and bronze sculptures at four intersections in the City of Santa Monica. The project was the brainchild of Robin Brailsford, of Brailsford Studio.
See Full StoryTheWorkNotWork Show interview: Tamir Moscovici
Terrence Gannon interviewed documentary filmmaker Tamir Moscovici and to promote it showed some stills from the film that show my work in this Instagram posting.
See Full StoryTiny Origami-Inspired Devices for Microsurgery
My colleagues at Brigham Young University are making some remarkable micro-surgical devices based on origami concepts and mechanisms.
See Full StoryPhysicist’s hyperrealistic origami art bridges nature, math and science
A nice profile by Treehugger.com.
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.
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An interview and photos on oh-I-see.com.
See Full StoryAbove the Fold: Mathematica Transforms Ancient Art of Origami
Wolfram Research does a short feature on how I use Mathematica to create (some) origami designs, including tessellations.
See Full StoryRobert J. Lang Origami: Original Approach and Unique Designs
AstrumPeople interviews me.
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 StoryCaltech: Knowing when to Fold ‘Em
An NSF-funded project I’m working on with Azita Emami and colleagues at Caltech.
See Full StoryOrigami 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 StoryRobert J. Lang: The Art of Origami
A brief interview about origami, math, and their connections.
See Archived StoryPIMS Chats with Robert Lang
A visit to the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.
See Full StoryPaper Shapers
More about the UCSC exhibition, with interviews with Erik Demaine and myself.
See Archived StoryEast Bay origami master gets Google boost
Discusses the Google Doodle and associated art stuff.
See Full StoryAdding 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 and here.
See Full StoryOpening of the 9th Mathematics Conference of Higher Colleges of Technology in Abu Dhabi [in Arabic]
My visit to Abu Dhabi, in United Arab Emirates, and a lecture presented at the Higher Colleges of Technology.
See Full StoryArtist of the Week: Robert J. Lang
Pictures and a short interview.
See Archived 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 StorySharp Objex: Art Interview with Robert J. Lang
An interview and pictures of some of my origami work.
See Archived StoryTED 2008 Conference Review
At the end of March I gave a talk at the TED conference in Monterey. This is a brief review.
See Full StoryFolding 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.
See Full StoryVirgin 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.
Open Source Conference 2005: Know When to Fold ‘Em
Here’s an article about a talk I gave at the 2005 O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland.
See Archived StoryThe 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.
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An article about the Livermore Eyeglass telescope and the work that I did on it.
See Archived StoryExploratorium
This article by Dana Mackenzie describes several of the new directions of origami, including work by Jeremy Shafer, myself, and others.
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