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About the ArtistRobert J. Lang has been an avid student of origami for some forty years and is now recognised as one of the world's leading masters of the art, with over 500 designs catalogued and diagrammed. He is noted for designs of great detail and realism, and includes in his repertoire some of the most complex origami designs ever created. His work combines aspects of the Western school of mathematical origami design with the Eastern emphasis upon line and form to yield models that are at once distinctive, elegant and challenging to fold.
Dr. Lang was the first Westerner invited to address the Nippon (Japan) Origami Association's annual meeting (in 1992) and has been an invited guest at international origami conventions around the world. He is one of the pioneers of the cross-disciplinary marriage of origami with mathematics and has presented several refereed technical papers on origami mathematics at mathematical and computer science professional meetings.
Dr. Lang has consulted on applications of origami to engineering problems including medical devices, air-bag design and expandable space telescopes. He is the author or co-author of eight books and numerous articles on origami and is a regular lecturer on the connections between origami, mathematics, science and technology.