When you have eight different shades of paper and fold four differently colored sheets together at a time, how many unique squares can you create? Charlene Morrow poses that question as she stands in ...

Origami has become known as a miracle technique for designers. Elegant compliant mechanisms can leverage the material ...

creativity work hand in hand. Lang has taken his lifelong hobby of origami, and his professional expertise in science and engineering, and combined them in a career that spans books, seminars and an ...

The fourth graders couldn’t take their eyes off their math papers. Sure, they were folding them into foxes instead of solving problems, but with each crease came a level of concentration and ...

Schools in central Iowa use origami to meet geometry standards for Iowa mathematics. It’s a fun and creative way to use mathematics with hands-on opportunities. One Johnston Middle School teacher took ...

Origami splash, by Erik and Martin Demaine Black Man, by Eric Joisel (from the collection of Robert Lang) David Huffman, with one of his paper foldings, in 1978. “Origami: Art + Mathematics,” an ...

APPLETON - The rose reaching upward toward a light was born of a single uncut square of paper. Its petals, delicately wrapped into each other, compose a piece that is beautiful in appearance and ...

Is it math or is it art? That was the question from Glover School third-grader Will Carpineto as teaching artist Motoko walked students through an origami lesson via Zoom. “It’s arty math,” declared ...

Start with a square piece of paper. Now, fold it into the shape of a tarantula. Seem like a daunting task? It’s not, if you borrow Robert J. Lang’s software. The California-based origami designer -- ...