Julia's suggestion of making a customisable form lead me to look at Beyond Boxes. The prototype created by Patrick Sung takes the concept of the traditional corrugated cardboard box and created a cheaper alternative where the box is flat-packed and pre-creased with perpendicular and diagonal lines which means that it can be folded in any direction, into any size and any kind of shape. He takes the cardboard box to the next level, building on its properties and challenging our perceptions of the square box. The folds allow for the contents to be tightly wrapped, minimising on excess packaging for the contents but it still allows for being turned into the classic box.
I considered combining the concept behind the boxes with my origami shapes, though it would have to be extremely simple and obvious in how it would be folded or it could become very confusing. Beyond Boxes works well as it is such a simple idea which is clear and simple to use whereas origami has always been a more complicated art form where there's a very specific way to fold certain shapes. I could move away from the idea of origami to try to create a more customisable form though I particularly like the controlled way origami is folded, so would want to preserve this as much as possible.
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