All Blog Posts Tagged 'cardboard' (11)

We first came across artist Michael Aaron Williams' street art back in December 2010, his cardboard cutouts of the homeless touched us on an emotional level, especially when we learned about why he decided to start down this creative path. He told us then, "If I…

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Germany-based design student Carolin Wanitzek has created a wonderfully whimsical set called The Border that visualizes those few seconds we all experience right when we wake up from a dream. Using colored cardboard, she cut out everything from mountains and trees to skyscrapers and planes, and then photographed her dreamworld scenes in her home studio. She then…

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If you're looking for a DIY project that's not only fun but educational, you may want to back this Kickstarter project. Alyssa Hamel just emailed us telling us about Kinetic Creatures, a set of three cardboard animal sculptures that actually walk! You have to watch…

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Artist Yasuaki Oishi used translucent plastic sheets and black hot glue to create a monumental sculpture that looks as if it's floating in space. The artist created a "ghost" of cardboard boxes by draping plastic sheeting over a scaffolding of boxes and then dripping thousands of strands of hot black glue from the ceiling so that the sheets stay in place. Called "reverse of volume RG,"…

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Berlin-based artist Bartek Elsner works with paper and cardboard to produce impeccable replicas of objects ranging from a simple boxed video cassette to a multi-textured chainsaw. While the medium in this series titled The Paper Stuff is reminiscent of Chris Gilmour's cardboard…

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Placing your empty cardboard boxes in the recycling bin is one way of effectively dealing with the common material, but artist Chris Gilmour opts to sculpturally mimic objects with them instead. The English sculptor reworks average cardboard boxes to construct incredibly detailed replicas of varied objects ranging in size from a teacup to a grand piano. It's hard to believe…

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For her thesis project, Toronto, Canada-based Farah Tamachi created this 6-foot-tall 3D typographic installation, called Ignite, using cardboard.

"This project aims to question the death of analog design, when humans have the inherent need to be tactile and explore things in a multiple-sensory rich manner," she says. This installation is meant to explores type design, 3D design and…

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If you thought that imagination wanes as you get older, you haven't seen these photos by Joel Robison. Using a combination of cardboard cut-outs and Photoshop, Joel takes some of our favorite Muppets and Disney characters and puts own his, unique spin on them. More than anything, his photos will make you smile and remember those Saturday mornings when you used to rush… Continue

These cardboard character illustrations are from the My 100 Cardboards exhibit by Berni Valenta. See more photos from the show here or check out his Flickr account. Chung Designs.…

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One of the coolest bookcases we've seen lately is by Eric Guiomar.



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Here are some interesting examples of art made from different types of cardboard that I stumbled across thanks to Guy Kawasaki. The artists are--in order of appearance-- Alex Uribe, Sylvie Reno, Mark Langan, Dag Weiser, and Chris Gillman. You can see the full story at http://tinyurl.com/6mracq…

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