The day before the workshop, Ashley, Sally and I went out and picked up the cardboard from various places including Mainfreight and Creative Junk, who provided a wide variety of cardboard from boxes to tubes. It was hard not to pick up loads more exciting materials at Creative Junk, but we managed to restrict ourselves to cardboard only. So thank you to all at Creative Junk for supporting the workshop.
We stored the cardboard in one of the offices at The Commons, so no more work could be done, lucky it was a long weekend.
Play, the most important element of working with cardboard. There are thousands of ideas, images, books and more showing what can be done with cardboard, but playing with it, folding it, tearing it and joining it to see what it does is no doubt the best way to explore the wonderful world of cardboard for yourself.
These images below are of boxes that form a mobile cafe and coffee room, and designed by RO & AD architects for an exhibition in Germany called 'Living in Cardboard'.
This installation was made from over 3000 cardboard boxes and designed to showcase work by Norwegian designers. It was made by Fantastic Norway Architects, and you can read more about the project here.
