It’s a creative way to use a die-cut geometric pattern overlay that feels contemporary and interactive — and I’ll show you two different samples that are really inspiring.

Marly van Lipzig incorporates sewing patterns into a sleek collection of textiles. Architecture of Prints, as she calls it, is on view at the Design Academy Eindhoven's graduation show.

Using a fold-and-cut process, what shapes can you produce? Remarkably, it turns out that, after an appropriate sequence of folds, any straight-line drawing (polygonal shape) can be cut out of one ...