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  • Workshop Cardboarding @ WDKA Rotterdam / Motel Mozaique

    Workshop Cardboarding @ WDKA Rotterdam / Motel Mozaique

    In a superfast workshop (3 hours) students created these big characters, made a parade and trashed everything they made in classic cardboarders style. Thanks to Robert van Raffe, Gert Jan Pos for the images, the organisation of Motel Mozaique and all the dedicated students! Want to make things larger than life? We can help you […]

  • Dining with the Tsars @Hermitage

    Dining with the Tsars @Hermitage

    During the Tijdens MN8 we set up an animation / cardboard costume workshop in the Hermitage. First you made your own Kokoshnik and beard. Then you sat at the table to participate in the movie that was being animated with the specially prepared objects. Live-size animated sequences and pinned dolls of walking pigs, melting teacups […]

  • Cardboarders decorate HRFST Festival with HKU Students

    Cardboarders decorate HRFST Festival with HKU Students

    HRFST festival is a new festival by Xsense in the Netherlands. They asked us to work together with the students from Utrecht School of the Arts to make some of the decorations! Thanks to all the students and supercreative Bram Schinkel for all the help! Want to get expressive during your festival? We can help you […]

  • Making faces @ WDKA Illustration

    Making faces @ WDKA Illustration

    They don’t often work 3D is what they told us, and the size was also a little bigger then they were used to. The group of 40 illustration students was keen on expanding their boundaries. They started sketching in groups of three and got to work in a haze of glue and cardboard. All these […]

  • Exploding cardboard @ I’m Binck Festival!

    Exploding cardboard @ I’m Binck Festival!

    We had a cardboarders party at the Binck festival which took place in Astrid’s new workshop in the Hague! What a great evening: we build and destroyed a castle with some skilled builders! And some real explosions too! Please don’t try this at home! We found out it was quite dangerous in the end! We […]

  • 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 […]

  • conTemporary sculpture: James Grashow

    conTemporary sculpture: James Grashow

    I heard someone say the Burning Man Festival is a new World Wonder. Incredible! Something with the motto “leave no trace” is now becoming a part of a list of things that only wanted to leave their trace. Like most of the artists on this site, the consciousness that everything is impermanent is a part […]

  • New Music Video’s with Cardboard!

    New Music Video’s with Cardboard!

    To produce a video on a budget, production designers turn to making inexpensive props from cardboard. They are only used one time so why make them durable? Many designers fall in love with the material and sometimes decide to use it’s properties instead of hiding them.First movie is by RYAN PATRICK: a very nice clip […]

  • 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 […]

  • Cardboarders workshop at Art and Design Deltion Zwolle

    Cardboarders workshop at Art and Design Deltion Zwolle

    I (Mathijs) was asked to do a workshop at the (international) school for Art and Design in Zwolle.I decided to make it an intense two days of cardboard costume-making. Then I would have one day left to play with the students and their costumes in the green screen studio (a really good one they have […]

  • The best Cardboard Conglomerates

    The best Cardboard Conglomerates

    There’s some eccentric cardboard world builders out there. Some are obsessed with building and extending their virtual environments in real life. Remember the game SimCity? Imagine it too be real and I think you’ll come closes to what possesses these artists This is the round up of the best ones on the net: if you know other […]

  • 3D Model to 3D Cardboard with the lasercutter

    3D Model to 3D Cardboard with the lasercutter

    We couldn’t wait to get our hands on a few of the techniques some cardboarders out there work with. Especially using the lasercutter and Pepakura were causing some excitement in our little workshop in Amsterdam. A few weeks ago I (Mathijs) was asked to make something sculptural for an exhibition in Hellendoorn (a small village […]

  • THE FLAT BOX

    THE FLAT BOX

    The shapes of unfolded corrugated boxes are very fascinating. They show efficient and careful industrial design. Printing is suddenly transformed to a fragmented collage. Not that strange that kids are often happier with the box than the toy itself! There’s some artists that use the graphical quality of these foldouts. They break down the box […]

  • Lowlands Cardboarders Sweatshop!

    Lowlands Cardboarders Sweatshop!

    What we like about festivals is not to just sit around and consume. We want to join in! A big festival like Lowlands is like a village, you can eat, drink, dance and consume whatever you like. But once in a while you get ideas on festivals, and you want to produce them immediately. This […]

  • Cardboard SweatShop

    Cardboard SweatShop

    What we like about festivals is not to just sit around and consume. We want to join in! A big festival like Lowlands is like a village, you can eat, drink, dance and consume whatever you like. But once in a while you get ideas on festivals, and you want to produce them immediately. This […]

  • 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 […]

  • SEATS

    SEATS

    The most well known cardboard chair is probably Frank Gehry’s Easy Edges chair. There’s a nice article on the guggenheim website. He’s best known for his curvy architecture but with a knack for design, Gehry has branched out into furniture construction, too. The patent on the chair says: “The furniture produced by this technique is […]

  • Back to (first) live

    Back to (first) live

    Joseph DeLappe wrote an instructable on the big pepakura Ghandi he created. It takes you through the process of creating the 17′ tall reproduction of the artist’s avatar from Second Life, MGandhi Chakrabarti. DeLappe walked throughout Second Life for 26 days to reenact Ghandi’s famous 1930’s Salt March – the forward steps of the avatar […]