Tag: Cardboard - Page 2
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Neat Multi-Purpose Recycled Cardboard Table by Diseno Cartonero
From the same folk that delighted us with those terribly cool 8 recycled cardboard accessories some time ago, comes this neat multi-purpose coffee table that dubs as a magazine holder and front desk. It's made entirely
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Canadian Cabin for Fluffy Little Critters from Loyal Luxe
Cats love cardboard boxes, any old cardboard box. So it takes some marketing skill to convince people to actually pay money for a cardboard box. Loyal Lux designs its cardboard box, which "distinguishes itself through its innovative design
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Students Build 33 Foot High Tower Entirely of Cardboard
It seems you can build just about anything out of cardboard. Fabrizio of the Italian design magazine Abitare shows us a 10 meter (33 foot) high tower, built by the Institut fuer Konstruktion und Gestaltung at Leopold
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Serbian Artists' Imaginative, Sustainable Takes on Everyday Objects (Slideshow)
Sustainable design might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Serbia, but for the last three years, Natasa Ilincic and Yugoslava Kljakic of the
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Environmentally Friendly Product Fail: The Cardboard Slinky
Cardboard toys can be really cool since the materials used to make them are recyclable or compostable, durable enough to last for awhile but not so durable that they'll stay in the environment for forever after the
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Baby on (Card)Board: Designer Creates Eco-Friendly Baby Seat
We've touted the great, green benifits of using furniture made from cardboard before, but Paper Tiger's baby seat is unique in that its advantage over traditional chairs goes beyond just being eco-friendly. Stuff made for growing
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Better For GrownUps: Better For Your Itchy Nose, And the Planet Too
Credit: Better For GrownUps Better For GrownUps' reuseable organic cotton sateen tissues hark back to age-old idea of the hanky, yet they have the modern disposable aesthetic with their water-resistant cardboard tissue box packaging. If your nose is
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Recycled, Native, Socially Aware Eco Design from Argentina at Sustentable Festival [PHOTOS]
Argentine sustainable design was on the spotlight last week, when the second edition of Sustentable Festival took place in Buenos Aires featuring more than 100 products in an exhibition. Some of them familiar, some newish, we
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Making a Case for the Cardboard "Recession" iPhone Skin
Image via Case-Mate Red Ferret pointed us to this 99 cent iPhone skin, saying it's the iPhone's ugliest, cheapest accessory. While that may be true, it actually is a really cool case for at least three reasons. 1. You can make it yourself If you don't
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Simple and funky cardboard bench by Proyecto Cartoon
Found at the latest edition of the Casa FOA interior design exhibition, these cool looking benches are made entirely from industrially discarded cardboard (left out for imperfections or errors at factories) and a small piece of
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Packaging Design at Its Best (Slideshow)
As noted in the previous slideshow about packaging design at its worst, designing and implementing packaging can go horribly, horribly wrong. Thankfully, there's a greener side to the equation, where fewer, greener materials meet with clever design --
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Amazing Treat Machine: A Dog-Friendly Cardboard Snack Dispenser
Your pooch may be smarter than the average dog—canine Mensa material, to be exact—but the premise for the Amazing Treat Machine is so simple that even the dumber-than-dirt dog will get it: Tennis ball goes in, tennis
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Make The Easiest Cardboard Laptop Stand
I've had two problems with my laptop that has sent me hunting for solutions. First, I find myself hunching over my desk to see the screen, and second, to help it cool down every so often, I have to prop it up with whatever
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Black Market Cardboard Recyclers (Video)
Current video goes undercover as a cardboard scavenger to reveal the legal and illegal side of recycling in San Francisco. In 2008, California passed a law cracking down on recycling poachers which targeted raiding of bottles, cans and newstands, but
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Cardboard PC Concept Case Nudges in on Plastic
Concept gadgets with a green edge are rolling out right and left, thanks to the Greener Gadgets design competition. The latest one to set the blogosphere abuzz is this concept for a cardboard PC case.It's a pretty basic idea, one
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BoB, the Eco Clothes Hanger Made from Cardboard and Reused Water Bottles
Designer Joan Nadal took on the challenge to re-design one of the most common everyday objects: the humble clothes hanger. A small object with a large environmental footprint if we consider that of the 8 billion polystyrene or polycarbonate hangers
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An Earthquake-Ready School for China (Just Add Cardboard Tubes)
Shigeru Ban's Paper Tube School The devastating earthquake that struck in central China's Sichuan province on May 12 killed 69,000 and left 4.8 million people homeless. The most chilling symbol of the Wenchuan quake were the thousands of schools that
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Seven Over-Packaging Sins: Images That Drive Us Nuts!
One thing that is a constant thorn in the side of efficiency lovers is over-packaging. Using more cardboard, paper, plastic, space, and fossil fuels than necessary to get things from one place to another is an ubiquitous eco-sin.
