The fall and winter collection of Prada shoes features intricate origami detail.Beautiful!

Graphic Designer Sagarika Sundaram created a lovely series called Hatto while she was a student at Maryland Institute College of Art. This series is set of 5 paper origami hats which was inspired by tall English hat styles that were popular in the 1870s. A great concept and project to integrate past and the present. To see the rest of this series, click here!

CUTE CUTE CUTE! Papiroflexia (Spanish for “Origami”) is the animated tale of Fred, a skillful paper folder who could shape the world with his hands.

Renowned photographer Patrick Demarchelier helped bring a unique twist to Pirelli’s sensual and artistic calendars by mixing east and west elements; one of which is inspired by origami! Beautifully set in Shanghai, along with some rising stars, Demarchelier’s ability to capture Oriental beauty along with some Italian flair makes for some pretty hot eye candy.

Indianapolis Museum of Art has an upcoming origami exhibition February 17 thru July 20th featuring works by Robert J. Lang, a former physicist and engineer turned artist. The installation will feature special paper sculptures created soley for the IMA’s exhibition. Video is a terrific preview of the exhibition. I would go if I was around. =)

Designers Jaime Salm and Young Jin Chung of MIO designed an actual origami table! MIO’s description: Composed of two laser-cut and slotted sheets of steel, Origami ships flat and requires no tools or hardware to assemble. One sheet is the negative of the other. Once bent, the tables folds lock the parts into place. The tables petal-like surfaces are sturdy and spacious making it a practical and sculptural side table, night stand or plant stand.

Cute Idea by http://www.soos.cc

How it works:

1. Take the tea bag out of the box.

2. Unfold it until it reveals its shape as a little boat.

3. Then place it into teacup with hot water and let it sail until the tea is ready.

United Nude is a design company co-founded by Dutch architect Rem D Koolhaas and English shoemaker Galahad JD Clark. The company is neither an architecture firm nor a shoe company but a fusion of both. Inspired by furniture, oranges, doggies, flight, and even origami, the resulting highly fashionable shoe is a divinely elegant and architecturally beautiful. This featured shoe is called Fold, based on the concept of the fluent movement of a single strip. The strip folds around the foot, front-to-back-to-front, like a scarf. Beautiful!

Gebrüder Thonet Vienna’s Isis folding chair folds flat when closed, and looks skinny from the side. It features an easy to close system, a natural wood frame, and plywood panels. The solid beech frame and plywood seat and back panels can be varnished orange, black, white, or blue.

OriBlog reader, Natalie was wondering if anyone knows the designer or manufacturer of this beautiful origami wall unit? Looks like it also functions as extra storage space.

Japanese origami designer Taketori has b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l life-like critters.

What I love about origami is that you can take a simple piece of anything and transform it into your vision. That’s exactly what Dutch designer Hannah Allijn was thinking when she dreamt up this beautiful window treatment.  With classic horizontal, vertical and diagonal origami folds, the fabric pulls up into a geometic ball when you want to bring in some natural light in the room.

Don’t you just get a little mad when you can only afford items you so-so like and items you absolutely love is out of your budget?! Well designers John Christakos, Charles Lazor, Maurice Blanks know EXACTLY how you feel because that is how Blu Dot came to be. They wanted to bring good and affordable design to as many people as possible. Today they are bringing this very cool origami-inspired steel chair that folds along laser-cut lines to create this super cool and comfy chair. Available in two glossy tone-on-tone colors, and satin black and glossy red.

Going for $3,680.00 - this is Bottega Veneta Origami Knot Clutch Purse is definitely not made of paper, but of leather in order to get the same folding effect and aesthetic. A little price-y? maybe. But is it origami-inspired and just so beautiful? most definitely.

The concept behind Modern Twist’s cubbies are made possible with an ancient wist: origami! Made with woven cotton fabric in cute repeat pattern prints, you’ll find this clever box to hold your most intimate belongings.

Designer Ferry Meewisse and his line Frrry is very much so origami-inspired. His bags can be uniquely contracted into a small cute package or expanded into a larger baggie. What makes this bag so clever is that he makes the seams coincide with the crease pattern and results in both a functional and a beautiful aesthetic in these very stylish handbags.

Inspired from an origami book, Munich-based Matthias Demacker and Simon Van Esch found the perfect material - aluminum to make this origami table a reality. It’s a red dot design award winner too.

Origami Scarf > by Reiko Sudo and Mizue Okada [left]

Katsura Origami Bag > by Reiko Sudo and Katsura Takasuka [ right]

As fall approaches, a warm scarf and a pretty bag is what we need - the origami kind is even better.

Korean designer Sooin Kim developed this awesome origami chair called Cardine. It is so brilliant because it is formed with only one sheet of plastic and two pieces of Velcro. Its portability adds more cool factor to its list of features. It can be folded into a chair and unfolded wherever and whenever!

Italian designer Patricia Urquiola for Moroso takes petals and transforms them into lovely patterns for a sexy lounge chair. What’s more is the color combination creates two very distinct and stunning moods -

1. petals facing upward for a feminine look

2. petals facing downward for a conservative decorative look