Michael Wolke is a German designer who created these sculpural pentdant lamps out of old cardboard. The pendant lamps hang from the ceiling like the top half of a bee hive suspended in a room. Using layers of card, the structures are given a curved form — perfect for directing light and creating a soft…
Industrial designer Li-Rong Liao has a great gift; to convert any humble sheet into wearable piece clothing…. And here it is. Her folded paper dress. Li-Rong has recently graduate from Pratt Institute and she is more than able to handle in an ingenious manner from paper, cardboard, Tyvek, to felt. As a daughter of a…
Lucy Norman of Lula Dot is the designer behind these chandeliers made from old books. Book recycling is often problematic; glue and low-grade paper used in book manufacturing make their recycling difficult. So, Lucy got the idea and reinvent the term ‘light read’. Discarded tomes were folded and hung around a ceiling light in a circular…
Merryn Haines-Gadd is an independent furniture and product designer based in Oxfordshire, UK. Merryn came up with this upcycling project; he took an old wooden chair frame and used old magazines to remake it as a functional chair. Friction, not glue, holds the paper together. The designer notes: “ That is the beauty of the idea,…
This seems to be a “recycled cardboard week”! So, just after the Cardboard City we have to present you these stunning furnitures made from scrap cardboard tubes. Industrial designers Antonela Dada y Bruno Sala discovered the potential that free, raw materials like cardboard can lend to their design process and products, during their studies at Buenos…
After the container city we have to present you this life size cardboard city, created by Oupas Design in Portugal. Architects from Oupas Design cconstructed Cardboardivity to raise awareness about using less resources. The city is completed with buildings,a wind tirbine, an airplane, cars and trees. You can find it at the 250sq.m Empty Room at Ivity…
