Cardboard Book.
It’s a familiar story – the cardboard box winning the four-year-old’s attention over the shiny new tricycle that came in it. Days are spent playing with the box – cutting, ripping, painting, folding and gluing it. Perhaps the designers featured in this book never did take notice of that new trike because their grown-up cardboard projects are wondrous.
In Paris a whole office, including shelving, tables and cubicles, has been made of honeycomb cardboard. A cardboard iPhone case also features, as well as a life-size Lambretta scooter sculpted from cardboard, with functional turning wheels. It’s a neat little collection of projects saluting that recognizable and disposable camel-brown material that, while often unremarkable in its basic form, can be put to clever and incredible use.
AN/B Editions, 2010, pp 320, RRP $59.95
