L’illustrateur et graphiste britannique Chris Anderson a répondu à la demande de la marque The Chimp Store en rendant hommage aux modèles de sneakers les plus connus de la marque Adidas. En reprenant notamment la Stan Smith pour en faire une représentation en carton, ces créations d’une grande qualité sont à découvrir dans la suite.
Le designer berlinois Philipp Kaefer nous propose avec ce projet « No Cardboard » de découvrir un siège non pas en carton comme l’apparence peut laisser deviner mais réalisé avec plusieurs feuilles de métal peintes. Un concept visuellement intéressant à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
I am writing this article on the Stooka Chair, curled up in my hotel bed, from one of the trendiest boutique hotels of Singapore. The kinds that focuses only on chairs! It’s ironic that this hipster place has all kinds of seating options from eras gone by, but not one that boasts of being sustainable, multifunctional, portable, easy to store and more importantly eco-friendly. Perhaps I should talk to them about the Stooka.
Crafted as real furniture from corrugated cardboard, 50% recycled pulp and 100% recyclable, this fun chair has elements that can surprise you. For example, the packaging for the chair is a reusable tote bag. The idea behind this packaging is to avoid the use of plastic bags.
Another cool aspect is that you can customize and custom print on the chair. The chair supports 440 lbs / 200 kg and is for use at room temperature and average humidity conditions. I can see it fit very neatly in the upscale hotel, and I can also picture it being used at home, offices, picnics, and by college students as well.
Consciously packed in a reusable tote bag, Stooka was created with a mission to deliver something more than just chair. A product that would support our only true ecosystem: earth without destroying it. Compact and easy to store, just fold the chair and lies flat. Awesome!
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Architect Shigeru Ban has constructed another building using cardboard tubes – this time a cabin for hikers in a Japanese national park.
Located off the southern coast of Japan on Yakushima Island, Yakushima Takatsuka Lodge sits on a steep woodland slope within the Kirishima-Yaku National Park.
Like many of Shigeru Ban’s buildings, the walls of the hut are made from rolls of recycled paper that have been reinforced with glue. The tubes slot into the gaps between the wooden framework, creating a weather-resistant facade that will be easy to repair.
“Paper tubes can be easily replaced if damaged overtime within the harsh environment of the mountains,” say the designers.
The cabin sits over the foundations of a demolished older structure and it offers a two-storey hideaway that can be used by anyone trekking through the park.
Light filters through the walls via gaps between the tubes, while a wooden door slides open to provide access and a first-floor mezzanine leads out to a small balcony. A sharply inclined roof helps to drain rainwater.
Shigeru Ban has been building architectural structures from cardboard for nearly 25 years. Most recently he completed a cardboard cathedral for the earthquake-damaged city of Christchurch, New Zealand, and has also created a temporary home for the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow.
Photography is by Hiroyuki Hirai.
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Prodotta dagli olandesi di KEK, queste cucce in cartone per il vostro amico peloso sono adorabili. Richiamano di fatto gli edifici di Amsterdam e ne trovate di varie versioni e forme.
More cardboard design: Italian lighting brand Slamp worked with designer Nigel Coates to create a cardboard house for displaying the company’s range of lights.
A team of ten young designers from Slamp took part in a workshop with the brand’s art director Coates to create a neutral backdrop for capturing the lighting designs.
Designs by Coates, Zaha Hadid and various others were set among cardboard furniture arranged into rooms at Slamp’s headquarters just outside Rome.
Book shelves, kitchen appliances and cutlery were all crafted from the brown material and set out to create different environments around the home.
Three hundred and fifty square metres of cardboard were milled and assembled using a hot glue gun over the ten-day workshop.
Other designs that utilise cardboard include a pavilion in Madrid by Shigeru Ban and an internet shopping collection store in San Sebastian.
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In a workshop with Nigel Coates “Casa Slamp” was born
A special cardboard house by Slamp Creative Team.
The premise
Nigel Coates, Slamp art director since 2007, gathers ten young designers from the creative department. The boys, coming from the best design schools, are 24 years old on the average, some have been working in the company for few months, someone for few days, someone for a couple of years.
They discovered Slamp as a space where they can express their energy, with the certainty of being able to compare themselves to big international names.
Coates supports them with the three seniors of the group in order to give them more expertise: Luca Mazza (head of the creative department), Stefano Papi (responsible for the engineering) and Adriano Rachele (full-time designer – Red Dot in 2012).
The brief is clear
Designing a setting for the next photo shooting of Slamp’s lamps.
The need is to create a neutral architecture without deflecting attention away from the products but, on the contrary that is able to enhance their decorative and lighting effects.
The brainstorming
The location is Slamp’s headquarters, just outside Rome, in the 200-square-metre open space of the creative department, among being defined prototypes and history of design volumes, with a classic rock soundtrack played by iTunes Radio.
Around the six-metre table (also designed by the department few years before), lines on the sketch book are about to be traced, brains are about to be set and opinions of all kinds are about to be discussed.
The academic wisdom of Nigel Coates, and the technical know-how of seniors, immediately lead to identify the solution of cardboard.
Furniture, accessories, and even a mid-century radio are sketched. A healthy competition in the group, mixed with a game of tips and contamination among everyone is arising.
The realization
Numerical control milling machines are activated, more than 350-square-metres of cardboard are used, hot glue guns are switched on. With 2680 joints and almost 1000 creases, the set is ready in less than 10 days and does not betray any of the Slamp values: it is original, experimental, innovative and evocative.
The result is Casa Slamp
A real home where every room becomes a set to show how our lamps perfectly fit to different home environments.
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News: the Cardboard Cathedral designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban opens to the public today in Christchurch, New Zealand.
The building was designed by Shigeru Ban as a temporary replacement for the city’s former Anglican cathedral, which was destroyed by the earthquake that struck the city in February 2011. With an expected lifespan of around 50 years, it will serve the community until a more permanent cathedral can be constructed.
The building features a triangular profile constructed from 98 equally sized cardboard tubes. These surround a coloured glass window made from tessellating triangles, decorated with images from the original cathedral’s rose window.
The main hall has the capacity to accommodate up to 700 people for events and concerts, plus eight steel shipping containers house chapels and storage areas below.
The cathedral had initially been scheduled to open in February, but was subject to a series of construction delays. The first service will now be held on Sunday 11 August.
The reconstruction of the permanent cathedral building has been a controversial topic in recent months, after critics rejected two contemporary designs and called for the building to be restored to its original gothic appearance. The selected design has yet to be announced.
Shigeru Ban has used cardboard on a number of pavilions and structures in recent years, particularly on disaster relief projects. Other examples include a temporary gallery in Moscow with cardboard columns and a cardboard pavilion at the IE School of Architecture and Design in Madrid.
Dezeen interviewed Shigeru Ban back in 2009, when he explained that he considers “green design” to be just a fashion, but that he is most interested in “using materials without wasting”.
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Swedish design studio TAF has created offices for a Stockholm branding and design agency with walls that resemble cardboard boxes (+ slideshow).
Gabriella Gustafson and Mattias Ståhlbom of TAF chose the cardboard motif to reference client NINE‘s work in packaging design.
Partitions made from corrugated metal sheets painted to resemble cardboard were added to create meeting spaces within the open-plan office and existing walls were clad to maintain the paper aesthetic.
“The painted metal sheets create a basic trompe l’oeil effect, like big paper packaging turning into spaces,” Mattias Ståhlbom told Dezeen. “The benefit of using metal is that it is more durable and long lasting than real cardboard.”
Meeting rooms are differentiated by bright orange and green furniture and accessories. “The different colour themes chosen for the furniture create small visible ‘islands’ in the white and paper brown space,” adds Ståhlbom.
The designers also used their own Soft Parcels furniture range made from soft blocks of foam wrapped in fabric that look like paper-wrapped packages to provide casual seating in one of the spaces.
Previous interior designs by the same studio include a shoe store for Camper with tables that look like they’re made from lollipop sticks and a healthcare centre inspired by bandages and plasters.
Japanese studio Nendo has designed an office with meeting rooms surrounded by walls that peel apart to create entrances, while Google has opened a new office in Japan filled with traditional Japanese iconography.
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Photography is by Patrik Lindell.
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L’artista canadese Laurence Vallières crea sculture di animali, riproducendoli in dimensioni reali e utilizzando solo cartone riciclato.
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