amsterdam

  • Cardboarders @ Horecava for Icova

    Cardboarders @ Horecava for Icova

    At the Horecava: a big dutch event for everything restaurant-food-cafe-bar related we worked with Icova the dutch marketleader in recycling. Their slogan is: “making more from waste!”. Now that’s something we can work with. On the spot we created a superlarge puppet called Bettie (the name is borrowed from Bettie Serveert, a famous dutch indie […]

  • Cardboarders Robot Dance Off ends in mayhem

    Cardboarders Robot Dance Off ends in mayhem

    Klik! Animation Festival (now kaboom!) is the best animation festival in the world! Because they aim to wake the toon character living in us all! No surprise we have some tight connections with them! On saturday we started building robots with the audience for a Cardboard Robot Dance Off during the Nobody Beats The Drum […]

  • Cardboard Creatures Animation

    Cardboard Creatures Animation

    For the KLIK! Animation Festival (now Kaboom) in the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam we developed this life size animation workshop. It combines our two favorite disciplines: cardboard building and animation. This is a workshop we perfected in later iterations on bigger festivals like Lowlands, IFFR and Hemeltjelief. It works best as an ongoing workshop during […]

  • Giant Cardboard Marble Run for PICNIC (at Eye Amsterdam)

    Giant Cardboard Marble Run for PICNIC (at Eye Amsterdam)

    Picnic is the first festival in the new building for the Amsterdam Filmmuseum EYE. It is the best location ever! They asked us to come and build something and when we saw these stairs we just couldn’t resist dropping something! So we built a Giant Cardboard Marble Run during the festival. With some help from […]

  • Cardboarders go to Cardboardia

    Cardboarders go to Cardboardia

    The Tyran and Mayor of Cardboardia came to Amsterdam! I (Mathijs) was very eager to meet them and talk about Cardboardia and the possibilities for cardboarders to go there. There are so many similarities with what we are trying to do. Cardboardia also uses the seemingly worthless cardboard as a material for their projects. In the […]

  • 2011 First Amsterdam Cardboard Robot Capture The Flag

    2011 First Amsterdam Cardboard Robot Capture The Flag

    Well, that was fun, we organised the first official Amsterdam Cardboard Robot Capture The Flag Event. The flag of course being the baby-bot. Inspired by earlier Robot Battles we wanted to create something like that in Amsterdam. Next time we need a bigger location, and we’ll invite more people… The passers-by in the Westerpark where […]