festival

  • Wildeburger Courant 2019

    Wildeburger Courant 2019

    Wildeburg’s 4th! This year we hit a home run with the festival newspaper we made on the festival with the visitors. A lot of the kinks in our first year workflow disappeared and there was a lot more attention to readability 🙂 Besides that we had some great printpartys at night. Many amazing illustrators and […]

  • 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 […]

  • MonsterMotel at the Lowlands Festival

    MonsterMotel at the Lowlands Festival

    The MonsterMotel was a quirky cross-over between a giant dollhouse, tamagoshi’s, sesamestreet and Big Brother. We wanted to know if we could make people act, just by putting them in a set with a large puppet. We hoped to challenge them to act and improvise. We arrived a week before the festival with a group […]

  • Cardboarders + Lowlands = LOVE

    Cardboarders + Lowlands = LOVE

    We came to the Lowlands festival with 22 hyped out Cardboarders from the Netherlands and Russia! Four days later 60.000 Lowlanders poured in to the terrain and just took over our venue (an old bumperstage). Crafting and tinkering people were everywhere! If you like to read something about the ambience: a great piece of (dutch) […]

  • 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 […]

  • Oxfam activation @ Where The Wild Things Are festival

    Oxfam activation @ Where The Wild Things Are festival

    Oxfam asked us to make candytrays for their new project promoting fair chocolate. Women in chocolate supply chains face inequality, hunger and poverty. Big companies are doing little to address these problems. We tried to turn the chocolate-candy-trays in to tough and forceful fighting costumes! The trays were filled with brownies for the woman coming […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]