{"id":33733,"date":"2012-01-12T22:52:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T05:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/?p=33733"},"modified":"2017-04-02T21:38:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T04:38:06","slug":"20-inspirational-designs-made-from-cardboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/design-ideas\/20-inspirational-designs-made-from-cardboard\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Inspirational Designs Made From Cardboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Getting Creative With Cardboard<\/strong>
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If you haven’t heard, we’re making our cardboard materials FREE all month<\/a> when you make something with Ponoko.<\/p>\n

Cardboard is a *great* material for prototyping your design and making it in another material later. But that doesn’t mean you can’t use cardboard in a final product. Check out these 20 inspirational designs made from good old fashioned recyclable cardboard.<\/p>\n

1. Corrugated coardboard artwork<\/h3>\n

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\nArtist Mark Langan creates stunning works of art entirely out of cardboard<\/a> \u2014 from original gemoetric designs, to masterpiece interpretations, to corporate logos and signage.<\/p>\n

2. Kranium cardboard helmet outperforms traditional helmets<\/h3>\n

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\nThis student project Anirudha Surabhi demonstrates the impact resistance of corrugated cardboard. His Kranium cardboard helmet<\/a> stood up to four times the amount of impact withstood by typical polystyrene shells. (Video of a DIY arduino powered test in the original post.)<\/p>\n

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3. Super cool cardboard box lamp<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a> I was kind of obsessed with this lasercut cardboard lamp<\/a> by Hiroshi Design Studio. Like the look yourself? Ponoko’s got white white cardboard<\/a> too and colorful acrylics<\/a>, so you could make something just as cool.<\/p>\n

4. Pop-up office made of giant cardboard sheet<\/h3>\n

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\nPonoko doesn’t carry cardboard sheets this big. (Our biggest size is P3: 31″x15″) But I had to share this amazing pop-up\/fold-up office<\/a> complete with floor, chair, desk and drawer!<\/p>\n

5. Screen printed cardboard shelving<\/h3>\n

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\nPratt student Sahar Ghaheri created the Nemu storage unit<\/a> to talk about “the immigrant experience”. Each box is printed with pattern fragments from various cultures.<\/p>\n

6. Geometric sculptures bring you a little bit of nature<\/h3>\n

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\nI love, love, loved these cardboard and beeswax sculptures<\/a> from Layer by Layer. They are filled with simple bits of nature like dirt, moss, and dried lavender. <3<\/p>\n

7. Cardboard cat cocoon<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cardboard is a great material for kitty furniture, like this cat cocoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

8. A flat-pack chair kids can decorate<\/h3>\n

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\nThis tot-sized table and chair set<\/a> lets kids do a some DIY decorating. The white surface is perfect for maker coloring, and the flat-pack kits come with stickers!<\/p>\n

9. iPhone document scanner<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>Industrial design student Kyle A Koch made his popular iPhone Document Scanner with Ponoko. You can read more about why cardboard is Kyle’s favorite material to work with in this Maker Story interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

10. Large scale furniture pieces of corrugated cardboard<\/h3>\n

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\nCheck out these really big pieces of cardboard furniture<\/a> designed by Arno Mathies.<\/p>\n

11. Incredible cardboard furniture from the Cartonnistes<\/h3>\n

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\nThe Cartonnistes are a French collective of furniture makers who make some seriously impressive and wonderfully whimsical pieces entirely out of cardboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

12. Roundup of kids cardboard furniture<\/h3>\n

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\nCardboard is very kid friendly. Here’s a roundup of various cardboard furniture sets for kiddies<\/a>. (And I bet they have just as much fun playing with the cardboard box it comes in.)<\/p>\n

13. Incredible columns created slice by slice<\/h3>\n

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\nThese mind-blowing, intricate columns are the lasercut prototypes from Michael Hansmeyer’s CNC milled plastic column installation<\/a> at the Gwangju Design Biennial in South Korea last year.<\/p>\n

14. Customizable cardboard coffins<\/h3>\n

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\nYou read that correctly. LifeArt makes 100% customizable, 100% biodegradable cardboard coffins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

15. Crazy cardboard machine<\/h3>\n