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When Your Furniture Comes Flat-Packed, Why Not Your Lampshades?

These flat-packed cardboard box lampshades are perfect for people who’ve just moved house but haven’t found the time – nor the energy! – to shop for furnishings. What’s the bet students never end up replacing them, though? [Formfjord via Inhabitat]

October 28, 2010

Are You Ready For Tube-Free Toilet Paper?

On Monday, Scott Naturals Tube-Free toilet paper will go on sale in Walmarts and Sam’s Clubs across the northeast United States. If they sell well, they’ll expand nationally, and then globally. Meanwhile, I just don’t know what to think anymore.

October 11, 2010

A Bowl That Looks Like An Alien Egg

In reality, it’s just a simple bowl made from cardboard honey comb and vacuum formed acetate. But in my mind, it looks like the shell of an alien egg. Imagine eating out of an alien egg. Mmm.

July 28, 2010

The Cardboard Media Centre Is A Step Up From Cinderblocks, Planks

The standard cheapo dorm room media centre is a few cinderblocks and a few two-by-fours. But that is a pretty ugly and cliched solution. This Freefold shelving system is instead made of cardboard, and it actually looks pretty slick.

July 23, 2010

Giant Cardboard Robot Arms, REPEAT, Giant Cardboard Robot Arms

What could you do with a pair of 5’6″ (168cm) cardboard robot arms? More like, what couldn’t you do? Just steer clear of Amazon shipping centres and local recycling facilities, and the world is your oyster. [etsy via boingboing]

June 21, 2010

Don’t Take Scissors, Water Or Fire Into Don Lucho’s Paper House

If ever there was a house where certain things were banned, it would be artist Don Lucho’s Casa de Karton, where everything is made from cardboard and paper.

June 17, 2010

But What Kind Of Box Was This Huge Cardboard Machine Delivered In?

Here we have a large, complex machine built entirely of cardboard. It has cardboard gears and cardboard pulleys, cardboard levers and cardboard buttons. I wonder if it was packaged in a box made of a hulking old computer. [Make]

May 14, 2010

Allan’s DIY HTC Desire Dock Is A Work Of Art

Gizmodo AU

Just bought a new HTC Desire and need a docking station? Don’t buy one – make your own, like Allan did!

March 19, 2010

Cardboard Record Sleeve Doubles As Record Player

This is pure genius: Audio engineering company GGRP Sound sent a 45rpm record in a corrugated cardboard sleeve that doubles as a record player. You can put it together one single step.

November 24, 2009

The Pop-Up Cardboard Office

We like cool pop-up books here. Awesome scale pop-up cardboard office? Yes please. Designers Liddy Scheffknecht and Armin B. Wagner, I want your babies. Your cardboard babies. Sadly, the pop-up cardboard office doesn’t include a pretty sofa for siestas. [Likecool]

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