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  • 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 […]

  • KOP festival Deventer

    KOP festival Deventer

    The KOP festival in Deventer (the Netherlands) invited us to make big cardboard heads (KOP=head in dutch). So we did and in one day we made these! On the festival we invited visitors to help us make even more big heads, too bad there was so much rain 🙂 Afterwards we used the heads as […]

  • An explosion of cardboard in the shape of town

    An explosion of cardboard in the shape of town

    About Cardboardia’s materialization in Perm.We were invited to come and help build Cardboardia in Perm (KartonKamsk).Perm is a city with two faces: one rough, industrial and hardworking and one innocent, cultural and fun-loving. The city used to be the last stop before people deemed “undesirable” by the Soviet regime passed on their way to the […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing!

    A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing!

    Art is the creation or mimicking of living objects. When the artist is gone, his objects live on. Not necessarily in the same way as the artist wanted to but still. This kinetic sculpture based on the slinky by Natalia Rodionova mimics real organic movement gives live to the inanimate material for a while. There’s […]

  • Cardboard Tugboat de Furie

    Cardboard Tugboat de Furie

    Another dutch artist! This one has made a cardboard tugboat. Filip Jonker sailed his boat named “de Furie”  from Enschede, the Netherlands to London, Great Britain in 20 hours!He used only honeycombboard for his boat, though there are some pieces that couldn’t be made with cardboard (like the engine :-)). The design of his boat […]

  • CITY NOW (HEDEN STAD)

    CITY NOW (HEDEN STAD)

    Hedenstad was one of the first theatreshows by the dutch Hotel Modern. I saw it in Arnhem when I was still at artschool. What hit me the most was the ease and nonchalance that they crossed borders between puppetry, visual art, performance art, animation and theatre. They still do by the way.Check their new performances […]

  • Mechanics

    Mechanics

    Cardboard Mechanics is made by 4 students of the Utrecht School of Art and Technology (Saskia Freeke, Fin Kingma, Davy Jacobs and Sonja van Vuure). I love the endresult of the project but you should also check the other movies made during prototyping, they don’t have the audio mixed out and you can hear the […]

  • Of Mice and Man (And of Cardboard too)

    Of Mice and Man (And of Cardboard too)

    The beautifull work of Richard Derks. Al sorts of little dwellings for his mice. Be sure to als watch the little films he made of the mice playing in the houses : Muizenhuizen (Micehouse) (update: at the moment these seem to be offline!) When you look at these little houses with the mice in it […]

  • Why this is a typically Dutch Blog

    Why this is a typically Dutch Blog

    The dutch have a broad history in cardboard and paper. The dutch city of Groningen used to be the capitol cardboard producer of the Netherlands, this is an old dutch song about them by Doctorandus P. I”ll try to translate a little of it using my worst english 🙂 They do it with cardboard,cardboard, They […]

  • Tribal Jewellery Display

    Tribal Jewellery Display

    Just give us a load of material and we”ll make something! That’s what we said when the CODA museum asked us to make a jewelry presentation… No question, cardboard took over the show. The show took place during the holland papier bienalle. We got 50 big plates of cardboard en decided to go make a […]

  • Sketchy Catchy Cardboard Characters in Holland

    Sketchy Catchy Cardboard Characters in Holland

    Cardboard animations by dutch animator Sjors Vervoort. So everybody has probably seen these blu street art animations and thought: ” I really need to make something like that because it’s just so epic. These moments end (in my case at least) mostly with sitting down and thinking: “It will never be that cool…” Sjors Vervoort’s […]