# The Arts Board of Cardboard > For people who are in to art, workshops, crafts, co-creation, festivals, animation, quirkiness --- ## Pages - [Our inspirations](https://cardboarders.com/our-inspirations/) - [](https://cardboarders.com/): Cardboarders projects are about creating things together with a crowd in a playful environment. We use cheap, recyclable materials, turning... - [CONTACT](https://cardboarders.com/contact/): CONTACT THE BEST TEAM EVER: Our team consists of many different artists, creatives, designers, teachers. The ones underneath can be... - [To be added:](https://cardboarders.com/awaiting-moderation/): Some things are worth posting about, when I find the time: Romance These castles by Ann Wood and Kathleen Thomasare... --- ## Posts - [Defqon 2024](https://cardboarders.com/2025/defqon-2024/): One of the more spectacular years at Defqon! Lot’s of mechanical cardboard, robots and another great team: Mathijs Stegink, Astrid... - [Bamboebios @ Wildeburg 2022, 2023, 2024](https://cardboarders.com/2025/bamboebios-wildeburg/): Wildeburg asked if we could bring their festival cinema back to life. So we did, completely. We create a cinema,... - [Wildeburger Courant 2019](https://cardboarders.com/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... - [Live Mobile Lightpaint Animation Studio](https://cardboarders.com/2019/live-mobile-lightpaint-animation-studio/): #LIT Mobile Lightpainting Animation Studio! How it works: This is a mobile workshop that works well in public spaces. It... - [Defqon1: Hardstyle? Cardstyle!](https://cardboarders.com/2019/defqon1-cardstyle/): Our 5th year at Defqon1! The heat was on, literally. The glue melted before we could turn the glueguns on.... - [Mutant Toys Workshop - @Toyland Halloween party](https://cardboarders.com/2019/mutant-toys-workshop-toyland-halloween-party/): During the Toyland Party by Halloween Spook we created this movie from the results of the Mutant Toy Workshop! The... - [We will sock you at Lowlands!](https://cardboarders.com/2019/we-will-sock-you-at-lowlands/): During the Lowlands Festival we made more than 8000 sockpuppets! These puppets came to live in all the different sets... - [We will sock you at Smeerboel Festival!](https://cardboarders.com/2019/we-will-sock-you-at-smeerboel-festival/): At Smeerboel Festival! We brought our improved sets for the sockpuppetsweatshop: the sockpuppet wrestling area has now a pimpy look... - [Bloons! Giant monsters from party DNA!](https://cardboarders.com/2019/bloons-giant-monsters-from-party-dna/): Balloons are the DNA of parties. Our crazy clown scientists took over the party at Lowlands, bringing with them 15000... - [Crowd Light Painting Animation LIVE](https://cardboarders.com/2019/crowd-light-painting-animation/): At the opening of Klik! Animation Festival we wanted to make an animation with everyone in the audience at the... - [Wildeburger Courant Live Festival Printshop!](https://cardboarders.com/2019/wildeburger-courant-2018/): At the Wildeburg Festival we created a festival newspaper with the visitors of the festival! Writing, drawing, printing, folding the... - [Analogue GIF's: a zoetrope animation workshop](https://cardboarders.com/2019/analogue-gifs-a-zoetrope-animation-workshop/): With a zoetrope you can make analogue animation, a GIF that needs no technology. Excerpt for this large rotating thing.... - [Workshop Cardboarding @ WDKA Rotterdam / Motel Mozaique](https://cardboarders.com/2019/making-faces-wdka-illustration-2/): In a superfast workshop (3 hours) students created these big characters, made a parade and trashed everything they made in... - [Lights and shadows, building with the Landsberg Community](https://cardboarders.com/2016/lights-and-shadows-building-with-the-landsberg-community/): We (Mathijs Stegink and Sjors Knol) were invited to Landsberg by Wolfgang Hauck to create a Cardboarders project. We built... - [Dragon, Dragrace, Dragqueen, Defqon1](https://cardboarders.com/2016/defqon1-dragrace-dragqueen-dragon/): What a great atmosphere on Defqon1! We can assure all the critics: the people that come to this festival only... - [Celebrating size: Olivier Grossetête](https://cardboarders.com/2016/celebrating-size-olivier-grossetete/): It’s not getting any larger than the cardboard architecture by Olivier Grossetête! There’s so much to say about this monumental-community-performance-architecture...... - [Wayne White: Toony Cardboard Picasso](https://cardboarders.com/2016/toony-cardboard-picasso/): We love people with a playful attitude and energy. So we honour Wayne White way too late on this site.... - [KLIK! Opening: Walking Characters](https://cardboarders.com/2016/klik-opening-walking-characters/): KABOOM animation festival (before the KLIK! Animation Festival Amsterdam) is our favorite festival. This year we we’re asked to do... - [Cardboarders animation workshops for ArtTube@Lowlands](https://cardboarders.com/2015/cardboarders-for-arttubelowlands/): Arttube is a videoplatform curated by almost all of the dutch musea. They asked us if we could fill their... - [Wearable architecture](https://cardboarders.com/2015/architecture-costumes/): Cardboard is in fact what the dutch call a “kreukelzone”: the protective crushable area in a car. A cardboard box... - [Dining with the Tsars @Hermitage](https://cardboarders.com/2014/3434/): During the Tijdens MN8 we set up an animation / cardboard costume workshop in the Hermitage. First you made your... - [SHADOWPUPPET VJ WORKSHOP](https://cardboarders.com/2014/shadowpuppet-workshop/): This workshop took place at the museumN8 in the Joods Historical Quarter in Amsterdam. During the party, the visitors of... - [Automata at the Jaarbeurs Utrecht!](https://cardboarders.com/2014/automata-at-the-jaarbeurs-utrecht/): “Can you make something during our exhibition? Because we have an industrial dairy show, a packaging show and industrial processing... - [Cardboarders decorate HRFST Festival with HKU Students](https://cardboarders.com/2014/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... - [Cardboardia Amersfoort](https://cardboarders.com/2014/cardboardia-amersfoort/): In the last days of august we finally had a real russian Cardboardia project in the Netherlands! The Spoffin festival... - [MonsterMotel at the Lowlands Festival](https://cardboarders.com/2014/monstermotel-textile-is-the-new-cardboard/): The MonsterMotel was a quirky cross-over between a giant dollhouse, tamagoshi’s, sesamestreet and Big Brother. We wanted to know if... - [CARDBOARDERS ROCK LOWLANDS](https://cardboarders.com/2014/thank-you-lowlands-2014/): Wow! Cardboarders on Lowlands... Each year it is getting bigger and better! This year we we’re joined by famous cardboarder... - [Ekotown Birds and Elephants](https://cardboarders.com/2014/ekotown-birds-and-elephants/): Cardboard was one of the few things you could not eat on the Ekotown festival in the Amsterdam forest park.... - [Elevated Corrugated San Francisco](https://cardboarders.com/2014/elevated-corrugated-san-francisco/): I found out about a group exhibition named Elevated Corrugated in San Francisco at The Museum of Craft and Design... - [Making faces @ WDKA Illustration](https://cardboarders.com/2014/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... - [Cardboarders @ Horecava for Icova](https://cardboarders.com/2014/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.... - [SOCKPUPPETPARTY @ KLIK!](https://cardboarders.com/2014/sockpuppetparty-what-no-cardboard/): Time for something different at our favorite festival (KLIK! Animation Festival). As you may know we are connected to the... - [Exploding cardboard @ I'm Binck Festival!](https://cardboarders.com/2013/cardboarders-im-binck-festival-191013/): We had a cardboarders party at the Binck festival which took place in Astrid’s new workshop in the Hague! What... - [Cardboarders + Lowlands = LOVE](https://cardboarders.com/2013/cardboarders-lowlands-love/): We came to the Lowlands festival with 22 hyped out Cardboarders from the Netherlands and Russia! Four days later 60.... - [Let's play CARDBALL! @FreedomLab](https://cardboarders.com/2013/cardball-freedomlab/): Cardball is THE new sport. It’s the only sport that is played before it’s invented. Basic rules at the moment... - [Building boat models: Workshop in Rotterdam Harbor!](https://cardboarders.com/2013/building-boat-models-workshop-in-rotterdam-harbor/): Buijs Events asked us to make a Cardboard Model Boats workshop in a beautiful old building in the Rotterdam Harbor!... - [Oxfam activation @ Where The Wild Things Are festival](https://cardboarders.com/2013/oxfam-activation-where-the-wild-things-are/): Oxfam asked us to make candytrays for their new project promoting fair chocolate. Women in chocolate supply chains face inequality,... - [Wearable Cardboard City at GLR](https://cardboarders.com/2013/wearable-cardboard-stuff-at-glr/): Cardboarders Workshops with a. o. students Mitchel van der Jagt en Sascha Dekker at the Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam! We made... - [German Urban Cardboard Street Art](https://cardboarders.com/2013/cardboard-street-art/): A cardboard artist often sees big piles of cardboard on the side of the road, waiting to be picked up... - [Wearable Cardboard Typography](https://cardboarders.com/2013/cardboard-body-type/): We we’re thinking about typographical costumes lately (yeah, we think about that sort of stuff) so I did some research... - [Cardboarders Robot Dance Off ends in mayhem](https://cardboarders.com/2012/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... - [Cardboard Creatures Animation](https://cardboarders.com/2012/cardboard-creatures-animation/): For the KLIK! Animation Festival (now Kaboom) in the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam we developed this life size animation workshop.... - [Giant Cardboard Marble Run for PICNIC (at Eye Amsterdam)](https://cardboarders.com/2012/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!... - [conTemporary sculpture: James Grashow](https://cardboarders.com/2012/contemporary-sculpture-james-grashow/): I heard someone say the Burning Man Festival is a new World Wonder. Incredible! Something with the motto “leave no... - [KOP festival Deventer](https://cardboarders.com/2012/kop-festival-deventer/): The KOP festival in Deventer (the Netherlands) invited us to make big cardboard heads (KOP=head in dutch). So we did... - [New Music Video's with Cardboard!](https://cardboarders.com/2012/new-music-videos-with-cardboard/): To produce a video on a budget, production designers turn to making inexpensive props from cardboard. They are only used... - [An explosion of cardboard in the shape of town](https://cardboarders.com/2012/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... - [Cardboarders go to Cardboardia](https://cardboarders.com/2012/cardboardia/): The Tyran and Mayor of Cardboardia came to Amsterdam! I (Mathijs) was very eager to meet them and talk about Cardboardia... - [Cardboarders workshop at Art and Design Deltion Zwolle](https://cardboarders.com/2012/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... - [The best Cardboard Conglomerates](https://cardboarders.com/2012/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... - [Cardboard Forests](https://cardboarders.com/2012/cardboard-forests/): A while ago we made this cardboard forest. We made it for the children visiting the CODA museum (in Apeldoorn).... - [3D Model to 3D Cardboard with the lasercutter](https://cardboarders.com/2011/from-3d-software-to-3d-cardboard-model/): We couldn’t wait to get our hands on a few of the techniques some cardboarders out there work with. Especially... - [THE FLAT BOX](https://cardboarders.com/2011/box-over-matter/): The shapes of unfolded corrugated boxes are very fascinating. They show efficient and careful industrial design. Printing is suddenly transformed... - [Cardboard SweatShop](https://cardboarders.com/2011/cardboard-sweatshop/): What we like about festivals is not to just sit around and consume. We want to join in! A big... - [Lowlands Cardboarders Sweatshop!](https://cardboarders.com/2011/lowlands-cardboarders-movies/): What we like about festivals is not to just sit around and consume. We want to join in! A big... - [2011 First Amsterdam Cardboard Robot Capture The Flag](https://cardboarders.com/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... - [SEATS](https://cardboarders.com/2011/seats/): The most well known cardboard chair is probably Frank Gehry’s Easy Edges chair. There’s a nice article on the guggenheim... - [Back to (first) live](https://cardboarders.com/2011/back-to-first-live/): Joseph DeLappe wrote an instructable on the big pepakura Ghandi he created. It takes you through the process of creating... - [Pepakura Modeling](https://cardboarders.com/2011/pepakura-modeling/): Pepakura is a software tool that makes it easier to make foldout models out of 3d creation software models. Ofcourse... - [A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing!](https://cardboarders.com/2011/ars-imitatur-naturam/): Art is the creation or mimicking of living objects. When the artist is gone, his objects live on. Not necessarily... - [Just Perfect, nothing more, says the little voice](https://cardboarders.com/2011/just-perfect-nothing-more-says-the-little-voice/): Sometimes it’s difficult to separate admiration for someones working ethos from the end result of what they worked on. I’m... - [CITY NOW (HEDEN STAD)](https://cardboarders.com/2011/city-now-heden-stad/): Hedenstad was one of the first theatreshows by the dutch Hotel Modern. I saw it in Arnhem when I was... - [Cardboard Tugboat de Furie](https://cardboarders.com/2011/cardboard-tugboat-de-furie/): Another dutch artist! This one has made a cardboard tugboat. Filip Jonker sailed his boat named “de Furie” from Enschede,... - [A Call to Arms](https://cardboarders.com/2011/a-call-to-arms/): For all the lazy people out there. This guy (Jason Lentz), sells his Giant Cardboard Robot Arms online! Story goes... - [Mechanics](https://cardboarders.com/2011/mechanics/): Cardboard Mechanics is made by 4 students of the Utrecht School of Art and Technology (Saskia Freeke, Fin Kingma, Davy... - [It even works, hi to lo-fi](https://cardboarders.com/2011/it-even-works/): Make things big: size definitely matters amongst the cardboarding community :-). This Giant Cardboard Camera isn’t only beautiful, it also... - [CGC: Computer Generated Cardboard](https://cardboarders.com/2011/511/): Some animation are worth looking at frame by frame. Psyop is one of the big names in animation. They are... - [Why this is a typically Dutch Blog](https://cardboarders.com/2011/why-this-is-a-typcally-dutch-blog-nationalism/) - [Cardboard Applause Machine](https://cardboarders.com/2011/cardboard-applause-machine/) - [Of Mice and Man (And of Cardboard too)](https://cardboarders.com/2011/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... - [Cut me some Costumes](https://cardboarders.com/2011/380/) - [Sketchy Catchy Cardboard Characters in Holland](https://cardboarders.com/2011/animated-cardboard-characters-in-holland/): Cardboard animations by dutch animator Sjors Vervoort. So everybody has probably seen these blu street art animations and thought: ”... - [BOXWARS ARE NO PILLOWFIGHTS](https://cardboarders.com/2011/boxwars-are-no-pillowfights/): Remember pillow fights? Alright: Now Forget Pillow Fights! If you feel like having fun you should try this for a... - [Tribal Jewellery Display](https://cardboarders.com/2011/cardboard-jewelry-presentation/): Just give us a load of material and we”ll make something! That’s what we said when the CODA museum asked... - [Painted Cardboard Houses Japan](https://cardboarders.com/2011/painted-cardboard-houses-japan/): The cardboard dwellings of homeless people in the Shinjuku Station in Tokyo were a 1990s phenomenon. If you go to... - [Cardboard boat building](https://cardboarders.com/2011/the-cardboard-artsport/): Live is but a dream! I was thinking of making my own cardboard boat so I googled how to. No... --- # # Detailed Content ## Pages - Published: 2019-02-15 - Modified: 2025-11-05 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/ Cardboarders projects are about creating things together with a crowd in a playful environment. We use cheap, recyclable materials, turning "nothing" in to something. Our projects include improvised creative games, tinkering, puppetry, lightpainting, animation, live-journalism, character design, costume making, storytelling, street theatre and set-design. We are a loose group of artists working from the Netherlands, based in animation studio Reanimation. nl. Need something? Send us a message! mathijs@cardboarders. com We see art as an actionsport: participating in the process of making is more important than the endresults. We are very skilled in getting participants enthusiastic and motivated to create things. Destruction of the things made (by using them) is a part of the project! Our workshops have an atmosphere of absurdity and quirkiness. We cherish the freshness of amateurism! True creation comes from innocent pleasure of working together and a feeling of having nothing to loose. --- - Published: 2012-09-15 - Modified: 2023-01-23 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/contact/ CONTACT Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form. Name *FirstLastEmail *Message *Phone Submit THE BEST TEAM EVER: Our team consists of many different artists, creatives, designers, teachers. The ones underneath can be considered HARDCORE. Mathijs Stegink / instaMichael VeermanAstrid van der VeldeJeroen FunkeSjors KnolEdo Sutherland Our HQ CardboardersTussen de Bogen 571013 JB AmsterdamThe Netherlands --- - Published: 2011-05-15 - Modified: 2012-07-03 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/awaiting-moderation/ Some things are worth posting about, when I find the time: Romance These castles by Ann Wood and Kathleen Thomasare sweet as candy. Cute as a Disney Movie. I like them, they show the craftsmanship and fun that a good cardboard project needs... Both castles are made as a window display. Cardboard wedding backdrop The picture are rather corny but the details on this weddingcastle are phenomenal! Wonder if the couple could take the castle home with them afterwards :-) via: snippetandink. com This video by aKING features a great cardboard castle: httpv://www. youtube. com/watch? v=pTLOKONxNTs Cardboard LOGS Why would you want to a log out of cardboard? Welll: Log log log everyone loves a log httpv://www. youtube. com/watch? v=hP0kWqJJZa4 Junior Fritz Jaquet Jözef Sumichrast "The medium for ”Wall Rabbit” is industrial cardboard. The use of cardboard is a backlash against technology. However, I have found that when this lowly material is sanded, it is elevated to velvet. " Cardboard Cowboy Movie: http://www. cowboycardboard. nl/ Beautifull portraits in archival cardboard by scott-fife httpv://www. youtube. com/watch? v=5EARTfmKpOI&feature=player_embedded&wl_token=uVM1sHEdUd-kiBMee-T4vGVybqF8MTMwODQ5Mzc2MkAxMzA4NDA3MzYy&wl_id=5EARTfmKpOI#at=31 Cardboard LETTERBOXES create your own font with these cardboard letterboxes thedesignoffice. org/letterboxes/ Weburbanist made a very nice round up of some cardboard artists The Cardboard Institute of Technology httpv://www. youtube. com/watch? v=LbN7FLO-8bc httpv://www. youtube. com/watch? v=e0wGy-WWEB4 httpv://www. youtube. com/watch? v=M7q5YLxtlB0&NR=1 Cardboard Record Player made of sleeve http://www. youtube. com/watch? v=u7CL0n5rR70&feature=player_embedded#at=16 Anne Umland (MOMA) in the book "Picasso Guitars" "Sometime between October and December 1912, Pablo Picasso made a guitar, cobbled together from cardboard, paper,... --- --- ## Posts - Published: 2025-11-05 - Modified: 2025-11-05 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2025/defqon-2024/ - Categories: CARDBOARDERS, PORTFOLIO, WORKSHOPS - Tags: automata, battle, defqon1, festival, robots https://vimeo. com/1102429731? share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci One of the more spectacular years at Defqon! Lot's of mechanical cardboard, robots and another great team: Mathijs Stegink, Astrid van der Velde, Michael Veerman, Jeroen Funke, Sjors Knol, Melissa Schippers, Florine Dotman, Mark van der Heide, Zinzi Angel en Jip van Alem --- - Published: 2025-11-04 - Modified: 2025-11-05 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2025/bamboebios-wildeburg/ - Categories: CARDBOARDERS, PORTFOLIO, WORKSHOPS - Tags: bamboo, bos, Cinema, festival, Festival cinema, forrest, Friendship, games, live Wildeburg asked if we could bring their festival cinema back to life. So we did, completely. We create a cinema, open 24/7, hidden on our own island in the bamboo forest, where reality gets as wobbly as the forrest floor. The BamboeBios is constantly shapeshifting. One moment it’s a heartfelt late-night cinema, the next it’s a chaotic clown-run gameshow where someone is rapping an interpretive dance to a PowerPoint about Hildegard von Bingen and mud. It's a mix of: ungoogleable animation gems (in collaboration with Kaboom animation festival and Close-up film festival), improvised hosting and live music, audience-driven games, friendship rituals, live-tripdrawing sessions and cinema-as-playground experiments. Everything is oriented toward unstranging the people around you. Because we’ve learned—through cardboard cities, guerrilla newspapers, and years of participatory mischief—that the real magic of a festival isn’t the stage or the dj's. It’s the moment a stranger becomes a co-conspirator. Collaborating in creating your mutual future story. https://vimeo. com/1030169002 In 2019 we created a festival wide scavenger hunt game for people to find new members for their friendgroups! Collaborators:Mathijs Stegink, Anne Kloosterhuis, Sjors Knol, Astrid Van der Velde, Damian van Soest, Noor Kloosterhuis, Peter van Drie, Bonne Steinz, Dre Schrijver, Riccardo Canciello, Amber Rahantoknam, Florine Dotman, Edo Sutherland, Josephine Beijer, Anna van der Veen, Mirte Mosselman, Krista Weissman, Kika, Jane Bergkotte,, Nino Maissouradze, Esmee van Liere, Maxi Meissner , Nina van Stokkum, Luc Loois, Annemiek Timmerman, Robyn Eikemans, Jasper Segers, Mila Philipsen, Veerle Supheert --- - Published: 2019-08-27 - Modified: 2023-01-23 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2019/wildeburger-courant-2019/ - Categories: CARDBOARDERS, PORTFOLIO, WORKSHOPS - Tags: courant, festival, illustration, journalism, newspaper, wildeburg, zine https://vimeo. com/356751478 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 writers of last year returned and blend perfectly with the new ones! We are looking for bigger venues to do this... So if you are with a big festival and want to get REAL... hook us up :-) Best team ever:Mathijs Stegink, Erwin Blok, Timo Kragting, Edo Sutherland, Jeroen Funke, Lae Schäfer, Nina Maissouradze, Damian van Soest, Lot van Teylingen , Laura Kleinhans, Raoul Wilke, Ron Sdıǝɹıuƃs, Simon Uyterlinde, Ervin Poot, Andreas Schrijvers, Jasmijn de Lange, Jerry Houtman, Sigi Foppen! And of course: Sam, Dirk Tuizenga en Maurice van der Berkt en Paul Niezen. And all the people that randomly helped out printing, drawing, folding and spreading! --- - Published: 2019-08-26 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2019/live-mobile-lightpaint-animation-studio/ - Categories: CARDBOARDERS, PORTFOLIO, WORKSHOPS https://vimeo. com/356031705 #LIT Mobile Lightpainting Animation Studio! How it works: This is a mobile workshop that works well in public spaces. It consists a large (55 inch) LED screen, camera and computer mounted on a bike. The way people interact with it is rather layered. There is the studio as a mobile live visuals installation on the festival. Then there is two layers of participation: people can be models and lightpaintartists. And then there is, for the 9 At first they just see the sequence of earlier images on the moving screen. Then they are being photographed, they get direct feedback on the screen. Then they start to understand what we are doing in front and behind them with the lightpainting/long shutter speed. Because we take a lot of pictures they become a sequence (like a gif). Because the screen is bright and big the participants can film their own sequences with their phones. After people understand what we are doing they start to try it them selves. Lightpainting and animation go really well together. The realtime feedback gives people a great reason to PLAY (and to look at them selves). Mixing that with time-lapse, possible because the studio is mobile, produces great results! The background visuals can be adjusted (logo’s etc. ) and it's possible to work in a theme. We make a little montage afterwards of all the images! That is finished the day after. Technical: We are working from batteries so we are free to move everywhere.... --- - Published: 2019-07-04 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2019/defqon1-cardstyle/ - Categories: CARDBOARDERS, PORTFOLIO, WORKSHOPS - Tags: defqon1, masks, workshop https://vimeo. com/345875655 Our 5th year at Defqon1! The heat was on, literally. The glue melted before we could turn the glueguns on. What a giant party with a lot of familiar faces! We feel like we are a real part of the festival! Big round of cardboard for the best team ever: Astrid van der Velde, Jeroen Funke, Edo Sutherland, Anne Wiertz, Florine Dotman, Maria Mombers, Shannon Pronk, Charles Mensagh, Michael Veerman and Mathijs Stegink! Want to get expressive during your festival? We can help you make people make! YEAH SURE! TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2019-04-03 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2019/mutant-toys-workshop-toyland-halloween-party/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: animation - film, character-design, green screen, toys, workshop https://vimeo. com/250802076 During the Toyland Party by Halloween Spook we created this movie from the results of the Mutant Toy Workshop! The beautiful dressed up visitors could join by creating a mutant toy monster made of recycled toys. After that they acted together with the monster in this classic b-movie we we're creating on the spot! Greenscreen for the win! This all took place in Tolhuistuin Paradiso in Amsterdam. We have lots of experience in making people make! OH YEAH? TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2019-04-02 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2019/we-will-sock-you-at-lowlands/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: performance, puppets, workshop http://vimeo. com/231837105 During the Lowlands Festival we made more than 8000 sockpuppets! These puppets came to live in all the different sets in our venue! Many thanks to all participants and all workshopleaders, puppeteers and the Lowlands crew! We made also a big party each evening of the festival. And some specials: a create your own dancepartner battle and a create and train your own aliendog match! A sockpuppet is the perfect size for people on festivals. Visitors make all sorts of characters, sometimes based on people in real life, sometimes an ideal version of them selves, sometimes of the musicians on the festival. We try to engage people in playing with the puppets and giving them a life by providing them with sockpuppet passports :-) Do you want people to sock at your party? We will sock you! YEAH TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2019-03-27 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2019/we-will-sock-you-at-smeerboel-festival/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: performance, puppets, workshop https://vimeo. com/289541143 At Smeerboel Festival! We brought our improved sets for the sockpuppetsweatshop: the sockpuppet wrestling area has now a pimpy look and the micro playback sjo is equiped with a smoke machine :-) We really have a hang of this workshop now and it is ready to travel! Of course we also brought all sorts of costumes and puppets we are already working on ourselves!   A sockpuppet is the perfect size for people on festivals. Visitors make all sorts of characters, sometimes based on people in real life, sometimes an ideal version of them selves, sometimes of the musicians on the festival. We try to engage people in playing with the puppets and giving them a life by providing them with sockpuppet passports :-) Do you want people to sock at your party? We will sock you! HELL YEAH TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2019-03-26 - Modified: 2025-11-04 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2019/bloons-giant-monsters-from-party-dna/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: activation, character-design, Parade, performance, workshop https://vimeo. com/286338055 Balloons are the DNA of parties. Our crazy clown scientists took over the party at Lowlands, bringing with them 15000 balloons for everyone at the party. From the stage we explained that we need help recreating the party spirit animals. The only thing the audience had to do was make as many connections as possible. We then took the created balloon chromosome carpet and build in some giant bloonmonsters out of them. They roamed the party afterwards! --- - Published: 2019-03-26 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2019/crowd-light-painting-animation/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: activation, animation, animation - film, workshop https://vimeo. com/295043740 At the opening of Klik! Animation Festival we wanted to make an animation with everyone in the audience at the same time! We gave all the 300 people in the audience a light which they can draw with on the screen! We made a little live survey using their drawings. A sort of live data processing using light-painting! And some light-paint animation of course, that was kind of hard :-) A project by: Mathijs Stegink, Michael Veerman, Naomi Greenstein, Lae Schafer, Daan Lucas We have lots of experience in making people make! YEAH TELL ME MORE! Would you like to activate your crowd with participating in some live animation? --- - Published: 2019-03-26 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2019/wildeburger-courant-2018/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: illustration, press, storytelling, workshop https://vimeo. com/284703472 At the Wildeburg Festival we created a festival newspaper with the visitors of the festival! Writing, drawing, printing, folding the 5 zines we made in 3 days. Total copies: 15000! Printed on the vintage gestetner mimeographs of Erwin Blok! No computers we're used excerpt for playing music! We came with the best team ever, writers, printers, illustrators, artists! Mathijs Stegink, Timo Kragting, Erwin Blok, Edo Sutherland, Jeroen Funke, Talitha Dijkhuizen, Laura Kleinhans, Damian van Soest, Bas De Geus, Nina Maissouradze, Lot van Teylingen, Lae Schafer, Max Terpstra, Jane Bergkotte en natuurlijk vanuit Wildeburg, Maurice van der Berkt, Paul Niessen, Dirk Tuizenga, Siep Stronks en iedereen die ik nu vergeet sorry. Want a newspaper created and printed live on your festival? We have lots of experience in making people make! SURE YEAH TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2019-03-20 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2019/analogue-gifs-a-zoetrope-animation-workshop/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: animation, animation - film, workshop https://vimeo. com/325650546 With a zoetrope you can make analogue animation, a GIF that needs no technology. Excerpt for this large rotating thing. It's our simplest animation workshop for which we use 2 big zoetropes, a lot of markers and some prepared paper. If you have a big screen we have a simple camera setup that can show the animations live on a big screen (and in the process record the output for an after-movie. The only thing participants have to do is think up a short interesting movement / mini-story (it's best if it loops) and spread it over 15 drawings. Then it they just start drawing and coloring and of course trying the animation! The workshop can take about 30 people at the same time. More is possible, then they might have to wait a little longer when trying out their sequences! Want to people to tell their animated story during your event? We have lots of experience in making people make! YEAH TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2019-03-14 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2019/making-faces-wdka-illustration-2/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: cardboard, character-design, workshop 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 make people make! YEAH TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2016-10-29 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2016/lights-and-shadows-building-with-the-landsberg-community/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: architecture, community, portfolio, workshop We (Mathijs Stegink and Sjors Knol) were invited to Landsberg by Wolfgang Hauck to create a Cardboarders project. We built for a week with the community, refugees, kids, artists and volunteers from all over the world! We tried to create a spiritual building inspired by the baroque Wieskirche and it's architect D. Zimmerman. The old churches we're also built with many hands from the community and this was also our goal. The old gym in which we worked used to be a shelter for hundreds of refugees. The space needed some positive interference. We made experiments with light and shadow and developed an idea to create something really large with all the people that wanted to join us. Another thing that inspired us we're the organic, intricate roccoco ornaments inside the architecture from the baroque. We still can't believe how many people joined us and how much time they devoted to the project. On the last day we showed everything to the world, for a while during a day long cardboard party. And then it was destroyed. Alles Kaputt. Carpe diem, Memento Mori. Nothing changed but our minds and some images on facebook :-) Want to work with us? The core / idea of the projects is always based on the group we work with. We provide help in the development of game, story, concept, technique and execution! Check our workshops! --- - Published: 2016-06-28 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2016/defqon1-dragrace-dragqueen-dragon/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: defqon1, portfolio, sweatshop What a great atmosphere on Defqon1! We can assure all the critics: the people that come to this festival only come for one thing: partying their behinds off! The things they made in our Defqon1 sweatshop this year are so awesome! It looks like they get more creative every year! Big round of cardboard for the best team ever: Astrid van der Velde, Jeroen Funke, Edo Sutherland, Beau Willems, Vanessa Hidalgo, Anne Wiertz and Mathijs Stegink! Want to get expressive during your festival? We can help you make people make! YEAH TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2016-02-19 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2016/celebrating-size-olivier-grossetete/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: architecture, artist, community 'The People's Tower', made entirely from cardboard boxes was constructed by the French artist Olivier Grossetete and many volunteers. As the weekend drew to a close, the Tower was finally toppled and dismantled in the garden at the Albany in Deptford, South London It’s not getting any larger than the cardboard architecture by Olivier Grossetête! There’s so much to say about this monumental-community-performance-architecture... It’s very wonderful to see the how people lift the structures layer by layer! And then there's the choreography's. Check this video at 2:17... https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=jwSwnlzXFX8 The designs are reduced to their essence, so that they can be made with the basic cardboard boxes: like building blocks. I guess this is also important because all participants need to understand the building process to some extent. I collected some pictures showing the buildings being destroyed. The temporary nature of projects ensures that the process, stories and memories of working together on something monumental are more important than the finished product. I guess this makes it more a performance or ritual than an art piece. "The work is never perfect or finished, people find their place within it. Perfection is something that's dead. It's something that's not living, it's not real," (Grossetête quote from interview on Mashable) . --- - Published: 2016-02-16 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2016/toony-cardboard-picasso/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: artist, automata, character-design, sculpture We love people with a playful attitude and energy. So we honour Wayne White way too late on this site. He should have been the first post! His work is a fusion of puppetry, cartoons, sculpture and painting. He worked as a designer for film and television (remember Pee-wee's Playhouse? ). His cardboard sculptures are what we need to show here though. He creates them for gallery spaces, parades and festivals. Be true: don’t these giants give you an itch to go make things yourself? His elaborately rendered sculptures are also puppets, with ropes to pull to control their movement. White seems to make no distinction in low- and high art. The puppets recall the costumes that Picasso made for the Parade and the best MAD! characters at the same time. Wayne White quote from the Miami New Times: "I come for the laughs. I don't purposefully set out to be youthful or whimsical, but it is there. I own up to it. There's a part of my work that's very populist. I'm an entertainer. Totally. But there's a darker part of my work that comes out in my drawings and paintings, where I take on a darker parts of the American scene. But a big part of my scene is putting on a circus a show. I'm happy to do it with no irony. " The images we show here are from White's instagram: go follow him here! --- - Published: 2016-02-16 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2016/klik-opening-walking-characters/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: activation, automata, character-design, klik!, portfolio KABOOM animation festival (before the KLIK! Animation Festival Amsterdam) is our favorite festival. This year we we're asked to do a special parade for the opening of the festival. As if a lot of characters escaped from the animations. We made giant walking and flying characters with students from the HKU academy for the arts and the volunteers from KLIK! We stimulated the students to create the characters so that they had some movement in them: we explained some automata principles and they really got to work with the mechanics! After the opening show we continued building a pirateship-under-water-scene-sculpture for the academybuilding. Want to get expressive during your festival? We can help you make people make! YEAH TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2015-10-17 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2015/cardboarders-for-arttubelowlands/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: animation, arttube, festivals, portfolio https://vimeo. com/154979114 Arttube is a videoplatform curated by almost all of the dutch musea. They asked us if we could fill their venue at the Lowlands-festival with animation workshops. So that's what we did! We made a Floor of Frames, we brought three zoetropes and build a Wall of Frames. We asked people to work / create / animate with the big prints of famous artworks the musea provided. https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=a1vvwDAVZcE https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=gRQ_flTADck https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=ciCzmzLgjZU Want to people to tell their animated story during your event? We have lots of experience in making people make! YEAH TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2015-04-05 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2015/architecture-costumes/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: artist, costumes Cardboard is in fact what the dutch call a "kreukelzone": the protective crushable area in a car. A cardboard box is protection for our stuff, like clothing or architecture is protection for our selves. I am fascinated by people making costumes shaped as buildings, architecture or furniture. Scale models of buildings have a poetic attraction. Maybe it has something to do with growing up: the size of your house when you we're a kid seems small when you return as an adult. It also brings the scene from Alice in Wonderland to mind, where she grows so much that she's bursting out of the white rabbit's house. Clothing and architecture deal share the same principles: the human size, color, shape, proportion, space, functionality. They both exist to protect and cover the human body. In away a piece of clothing can be seen as portable, flexible architecture. What happens if architecture becomes portable? And attached to our bodies? Tracy Featherstone (USA) creates a sort of hybrid between architecture, furniture, clothing, body extensions and the human figure. I love this idea: a small city roaming around a big city. Check these beautiful works by Emily Speed (UK). Her city costumes are called "Inhabitants". They look lost in the big city. A kid version of the city, lost in the body of the grown up. The bare feet of the wearer of the sculpture emphasize the fragility of the human inside. Does she know where she is going? Emily: "Inhabitant is about trying to... --- - Published: 2014-11-18 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2014/3434/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: animation, cardboard, portfolio https://vimeo. com/110977428 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 and fish swiming on the plates. --- - Published: 2014-11-18 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2014/shadowpuppet-workshop/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: animation, character-design, Continuos, workshop https://vimeo. com/111103302 This workshop took place at the museumN8 in the Joods Historical Quarter in Amsterdam. During the party, the visitors of the Museumnight helped us in making some paper puppet animations, which we're recorded directly and shown as visuals behind the DJ. It was very interesting to combine the technique of traditional shadowpuppets with a workshop and using the output as visuals. We used the same setup on different festivals / parties lately and we still love it :-) https://vimeo. com/261325171 --- - Published: 2014-10-09 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2014/automata-at-the-jaarbeurs-utrecht/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: automata, beurs, Continuos, jaarbeurs, live-art-demo, portfolio https://vimeo. com/108245904 "Can you make something during our exhibition? Because we have an industrial dairy show, a packaging show and industrial processing show! " Ok! We can! We will then make mechanical cardboard cows! During the shows we were on the floor to work on our automata ... Thanks too Michael Veerman, Jeroen Funke, Josephine Beijer en Nienke van Soest! --- - Published: 2014-10-06 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2014/hrfst-festival-with-hku-students/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: cardboard, characters, festival, hrfst, portfolio 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 make people make! YEAH TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2014-10-06 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2014/cardboardia-amersfoort/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: cardboardia, Parade, portfolio, spoffin In the last days of august we finally had a real russian Cardboardia project in the Netherlands! The Spoffin festival invited our russian friends to Amersfoort to make a giant parade. For those who don't know Cardboardia yet: it's a larger than life project from Russia. Sergej Korsakov, the uncompromising leader, is the axis around which cardboardia turns. The projects are theater, temporary social experiments, creative economies and visual arts all rolled in to one. We went to one of the materialisations in the form of a city in Perm. The cardboardia projects always have some story to it, they mostly evolve around the visions and fantasies of Tyran of Cardboardia, but leaving a lot of space for participants to realize a cardboard version of their own dreams. Cardboardia Amersfoort was a parade of Tyran's dream machines, characters, toys and games. It was big fun having the cardboardians around and working with them again. It seems our big dream: creating a worldwide cardboarders event is coming closer and closer! --- - Published: 2014-09-15 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2014/monstermotel-textile-is-the-new-cardboard/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: characterdesign, festival, improv, lowlands, puppets, theatre https://vimeo. com/104027851 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 of 25 creatives and a lot of material to make a motel with 6 rooms with glass windows. During the festival a Monster lived in each room. The Monsters were silently communicating their needs through the glass with the audience outside. They provided different services to festival goers, it was up to them to find out the rest. One of the characters was a whore. She tapped on the window suggesting you would visit her. In a very inapropriate place was a little show theater with a pole dancing fetus! You could visit Tattoo Hank to get a giant piercing or a huge tattoo. At the Sokkenwasser (Sockomat): Here you could get your socks washed. You were given an arbitrary pair of dry socks back. So the festival goers ran around in each other's socks (well washed thankfully). Grandpa: This elderly man behind the window was very lonely. Visitors were able to go see him to pick up his stockings, read a book or just to chat. The last day of the festival grandfather hanged himself. What caused many condolences and expressions of grief. RoboDeath: A robot made tough robot techno. If you... --- - Published: 2014-08-19 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2014/thank-you-lowlands-2014/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: box wars, lowlands, Monstermotel, robot, ross koger https://vimeo. com/104027973 Wow! Cardboarders on Lowlands... Each year it is getting bigger and better! This year we we're joined by famous cardboarder and boxwarior Ross Koger (Australia) and a new team from Cardboardia (Russia). Next to our loyal team from the Netherlands of course. Besides the annual boatrace we had a CardCar Flintstones Derby and a night the MonsterMotel party! Nice article on NPO 3FM about all the cardboard signs that were made :-) And another one in dutch newspaper NRC about playing with cardboard on lowlands! https://youtu. be/HTGQtOWWmcI https://vimeo. com/71926293 --- - Published: 2014-06-24 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2014/ekotown-birds-and-elephants/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO Cardboard was one of the few things you could not eat on the Ekotown festival in the Amsterdam forest park. We made birds and elephants with the audience! It's always nice to see adults and children working together. Sometimes people think we do children's workshops (parents like to see us as a kindergarten). The idea that playing and tinkering and crafting together is childish is still strong with some people. But especially when they work together, adults and children inspire each other in the best way. Children learn from the skill, structure and endurance of the parents, parents learn to loosen up, be serviceable, explain and mainly: play. --- - Published: 2014-06-08 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2014/elevated-corrugated-san-francisco/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: animation, animation festival, ann weber, art, artists, california, cardboard artist, corrugated, crafts, crafts and design museum, faces, installation, kiel johnson, klik!, marc d'estout, mathijs stegink, michael stutz, museum, san francisco, scott fife, sculpture, tom burckhardt, west coast I found out about a group exhibition named Elevated Corrugated in San Francisco at The Museum of Craft and Design when visiting cardboard artist Kiel Johnson. It features some works that I really wanted to see in real life! Click to enlarge! I guess the curator (Marc D'estout) had some of the same problems as this website has! Making a material the starting point of an exhibition can only work if you find an interesting angle to view the material from. What I found most interesting in this exhibition is the way the artists defined their own method of sculpting with cardboard. This cardboard camera is by Kiel Johnson. Kiel is a versatile artist who, alongside his large labyrinthine drawings, often works on cardboard objects and video's. Michael Stutz works are superlarge! This technique of weaving cardboard makes it possible to see the sculpture from the inside and the outside. Tom Burckhardt shows some parts of a bigger installation he made named Full Stop. The details in the cardboard versions of his artistic tools give me the feeling that Tom loves his studio and work. It’s almost romantic! Scott Fife’s work is super detailed and rough at the same time. It is robust and solid! The screws, glue and sketch lines contribute to the personality and character of those who are portrayed. The faces show a lot of subtlety, while they seem to be made with big gestures. Ann Weber gives reused cardboard new look and feel. Leathery or fabric... --- - Published: 2014-05-19 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2014/making-faces-wdka-illustration/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: 3d, academie, academy, blaak, cardboard, face, faces, gezichten, heads, illustratie, illustration, karton, koppen, mathijs stegink, michael veerman, puppets, rotterdam, students, wdka, willem de kooning 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 faces were made in less then 4 hours! We were impressed by the cooperation, detail and expression they were able to develop in the little time they had. Want to make things larger than life? We can help you make people make! YEAH TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2014-01-18 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2014/cardboarders-horecava-for-icova/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: amsterdam, backpack, character, giant, horecava, icova, large, making more from waste, puppet, rai, recycling, walking puppet 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 band). We made a large stand to work in with Astrid Tweepuntnul's beautiful Alice in Wonderland puppets, a large cubic 3d recycling logo and some 3D letters out of cardboard. Bettie was our first effort in making articulate cardboard walking puppets! The whole character is rigged on an old stripped backpack with aluminum frame. We are now often using this technique: so please saves those old backpacks for us! Team: Edo Sutherland, Michael Veerman, Veerle Cima, Astrid van der Velde and Mathijs Stegink! Want to make more from waste? We can help you with workshops, demonstrations and activations! YEAH TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2014-01-05 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2014/sockpuppetparty-what-no-cardboard/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: branding, decoration, puppets, set design https://vimeo. com/79774919 Time for something different at our favorite festival (KLIK! Animation Festival). As you may know we are connected to the festival organizing animation workshops, creating a variation of whacky objects, events, decorations and crazy animation programs. This year we wanted to try something new, yet in the spirit of Cardboarding: working together with the audience of the festival on a big creative project! A place for the festival goers to create and experiment with their own characters and creative skills and show them off: at the Sockpuppetparty! So we gathered a lot of material: 150 socks, fabric, needles, yarn, sequins, hot glue guns, stuffing, buttons, googly eyes and and assorted bits and pieces. We created a hand-puppet-sized boxing ring for sockpuppet armwrestling and made sure there were some good tunes afterwards (Gangpol und Mitt and Eboman). Get to know the fake you! --- - Published: 2013-10-07 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2013/cardboarders-im-binck-festival-191013/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: astrid van der velde, cardboard, cardboarders, castles, den haag, festival, i am binck, knifes, swords, the hague, trebuchet https://vimeo. com/83438416 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 used ordinary deodorant as an explosive and thick cardboard tubes as barrels. We were quite surprised by the power of the shots! https://youtu. be/W5HboNBztOg --- - Published: 2013-10-07 - Modified: 2023-01-18 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2013/cardboarders-lowlands-love/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: festival, lowlands 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) writing on 3voor12. Saturday was Cardboard Robotbuilding Day! LTV (captain video) made us a video of the Robot Run. On sunday we made some cardboard boats and tried the out: live on national radio! And then there was the parties at night, screening the weirdest animations from the KLIK! animation Festival! Images by Kate Nozik, 3voortwaalf and many of the people below Many thanks to the best team ever: Janneke Stegink, Michael Veerman, Annemieke Dunnink, Astrid van der Velde, Lyoni Spiers, Barbara de Haan, Maxi Meister, Eva Stegink, Smurfit Kappa, Jeroen Funke, Lamelos, Boris Peeters, Sam Peeters, Koos Schaart, Arjen Pas, Marjolein van der Wal, Edo Sutherland, Albert Kannemans, Michael and Kate Nozik, Anastasia Vinograda, Josephine Beijer, Yvonne van Ulden, Jan Vriends, Sergej Korsakov... and. . and... and... https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=b68mjSZoroE Want to get expressive during your festival? We can help you make people make! YEAH TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2013-06-20 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2013/cardball-freedomlab/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: alternative solutions, costume, costumes, dilemma, freedomlab, game, goal, hands and feet, rules, scenario based reasoning, sketch artists, technique, think tanks, visions, visual thinking, workshop https://vimeo. com/68648522 Cardball is THE new sport. It's the only sport that is played before it's invented. Basic rules at the moment of writing: - It's considered cheating if you don't cheat with Cardball. - Build a cardboard costume for two people that covers all hands and feet. - No human appendage should ever touch the Cardball! - Set an easy goal and try to score. This game was thought up by the ultra-smart people during the super-short workshop at Freedomlab. org . They invited us to show them what cardboarding is about and to see if they could use some of our techniques in their European think tanks. Turned out we got really curious about a lot of their techniques too! We have lots of experience in making people make! OH YEAH? TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2013-06-11 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2013/building-boat-models-workshop-in-rotterdam-harbor/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: boat models, boatbuilding, boatmodels, boats, cardboarders, event, floating, karton, model, model boats, models, models workshop, raets marine, rotterdam, team, teambuilding, workshop Buijs Events asked us to make a Cardboard Model Boats workshop in a beautiful old building in the Rotterdam Harbor! We didn't stop after building the boatmodels. We made video's of all the groups of builders (120 builders! ) pictures of the boats. In the party afterwards we showed the animation we made of this with some other animated vj-goodness (which is our actual profession besides cardboarding). And ofcourse the boats we're floating around nicely in the grid above the party. The cardboarders team for this project: Astrid van der Velde, Janneke Stegink de Graaff, Josephine Beijer, Albert Kannemans, Edo Sutherland, Koos Schaart, Jeroen Funke, Michael Veerman, Niek Das en Mathijs Stegink. Want to people get creative at your event? We have lots of experience in making people make! YEAH TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2013-03-22 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2013/oxfam-activation-where-the-wild-things-are/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: activatie, brownies, candy trays, chocola, chocolate candy, chocolate women, costume, costumes, festival, festival activatie, hunger, inequality, novib, oxfam, poverty, project, where the wild things are festival, wild things, wtwta 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 to the festival Where The Wild Things Are. Need a weird costume? We can make them for you! YEAH TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2013-02-14 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2013/wearable-cardboard-stuff-at-glr/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: cardboarders, city, costume, draagbaar, grafisch lyceum rotterdam, karton, kostuum, mathijs stegink, school, skyline, students, type, typographical, typography, wearable, workshop https://vimeo. com/59686144 Cardboarders Workshops with a. o. students Mitchel van der Jagt en Sascha Dekker at the Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam! We made this stuff in one afternoon. I think the wearable city will have a follow up in the future. It's funny to think of the wearable cardboard skyline, still standing there, somewhere in Rotterdam. Maybe covered with a bit of snow now :-) A big shout out out to all the students that made this a very inspirational workshop! Loved the ambiance at that school! --- - Published: 2013-02-11 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2013/cardboard-street-art/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: cardboard artist, cardboard boxes, cardboard fireplace, cardboarders, cities, city, city landscape, concrete, everyday environment, evol, germany, recycling company, stencils, street art, street artist, surfaces, warmth A cardboard artist often sees big piles of cardboard on the side of the road, waiting to be picked up by the cities' recycling company. I always fantasize about the things I could make out of these piles and how much fun it would be to put these things on the street again. The artists underneath recognized that cardboard, together with concrete and glass is the most contemporary material. It's appearance is intertwined with our everyday environment, so much that we sometimes do not even see it any more. Since his fabulous rendering of a very hip and nostalgic boombox for Mini, Bartek Elsner's work is all over the web. His other work (for example this Raven) is more exciting and subtle. This dark, geometric piece is only visible for the careful onlooker. His cardboard fireplace touches a similar subject. Bringing the indoors to the outdoors, creating a visual warmth, crossing the line between personal and public. Another artist from Germany: street artist EVOL makes unbelievably detailed stencils (! ) on cardboard. He transforms the mundane surfaces of old cardboard boxes to incredible life like pictures of inner city landscape. --- - Published: 2013-02-05 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2013/cardboard-body-type/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: costumes, letter, lettering, masks, music, music video, musicvideo, text, type, typographical, typography, videoclip, visual research, wearable https://vimeo. com/52258194 We we're thinking about typographical costumes lately (yeah, we think about that sort of stuff) so I did some research on wearable cardboard typography. We didn't find much, we hope this post will make you help us and some good stuff will surface! First we have a gem: the video for Lushlife shot at more then 65 locations with an unbelievable large amount of typographical cardboard masks. Made by Lamar + Nik: very inspiring!   This picture is on amandine alessandra's site, she did a very nice visual research on "body typography". Luckily there's no problem finding stuff about that! She has some great examples! Maybe the one next to it is cheating because it's probably not inspired by a letter: Zoltan Tombor took this picture of the Letter T for french magazine Twill :-) This last picture is a cool promotional picture for the bicycle film festival (couldn't find which one)! Very funny! So please! If you find some good cardboard typographical costumes Please give us a comment! --- - Published: 2012-11-23 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2012/cardboarders-robot-dance-off-ends-in-mayhem/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: amsterdam, animation festival, astrid van der velde, best animation, building robots, cartoon, concert, Dance, dancing, dario van vree, dutch, Eye, festival, janneke stegink, klik!, koos schaart, mayhem, nederlands, robot dance, the Netherlands, tight connections, toon, violence, yvonne van ulden https://vimeo. com/53408964 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 concert that night. There was not a lot of dancing, it immediately ended in robot mayhem :-) Sigh! Can't wait for the next Klik! --- - Published: 2012-11-19 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2012/cardboard-creatures-animation/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: amsterdam, animation, animation festival, creatures, Eye, filmmuseum, klik!, klik! animation festival cardboarders cardboard karton mathijs stegink animatie michael veerman workshop animatie amsterdam dutch nederlands, violence, workshop https://vimeo. com/53267560 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 festivals or, adding little animations on the spot, resulting in one big one at the end of the day. We have a continuos output, so you can immediately see what you are making and also what has been made before. It is also interesting for onlookers and people who just want to participate as prop makers! --- - Published: 2012-09-19 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2012/giant-cardboard-marble-run-for-picnic-at-eye-amsterdam/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: albert kannemans, amsterdam, astrid van der velde, audience, ball, building, cardboard, cardboarders, construction, Crew, Eye, festival, filmmuseum, giant, Janneke, janneke stegink, josephine beijers, koos schaart, Marble run, mathijs stegink, Mediawijzer, museum, network, PICNIC, stairs, stefanie wijesters https://vimeo. com/49717430 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 the audience we created it in the two days of the festival and it made several clear runs! We we're sponsored by Mediawijzer. net a dutch organisation that creates awareness about media. Cardboarders Crew this time were Michael Veerman, Astrid van der Velde, Albert Kannemans, Koos Schaart, Janneke Stegink, Stefanie Weijsters, Josephine Beijers and Mathijs Stegink!   Who makes the longest Marble Run? Let's build one together! YEAH TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2012-07-16 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2012/contemporary-sculpture-james-grashow/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: art, artist, buildings, burning man festival, cardboard, cardboard artist, cardboard factory, cardboard fish, cardboarders, city, conglomarate, contemporary art, corrugated, fish, floating, glue, housing, impermanent, james grashow, leave no trace, live, monkeys, mortality, sculpture, shape, shapes, teacher, technique, temporary, workshop 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 of James Grashow's work. We agree! Cardboard artists should claim the temporary in contemporary art! James Grashow is a sculptor and teacher of cardboard. He creates large environments: cities, aquaria and crowds of monkeys in a bold, powerful style. His masterpiece is a large fountain, installed outside, where it slowly fell apart due to the weather. “Corrugated board is a material that understands its mortality, it knows that it’s destined for trash. It is bonded to the human experience. They say that 85% of everything on the planet has spent part of its life in a cardboard box. “ James Grashow's father had a cardboard factory and he has been making things out of it since he was a child. His main technique is extrusion, connecting two shapes with a strip of cardboard. He approaches cardboard as a sculptor, bending, push and twisting the material into the shape he wants it to be. He also makes a lot of work in workshops with local participants: like the above Cardbirds workshop and Cardboard fish workshop. "I am convinced there is a link between corrugated board and creativity. Its very valuelessness liberates us. Boxes, tubes, sheets of... --- - Published: 2012-07-16 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2012/kop-festival-deventer/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: astrid van der velde, cardboarders, decoration, deventer, dutch, event, face, face made of cardboard, giant heads, head, Janneke Stegink - de Graaff, kappa, koos schaart, KOP, kop festival, kopfestival, mathijs stegink, michael veerman, netherlands, rain, rob bisseling, scale, science cafe, smurfit kappa, the Netherlands, wilma koorn, zedek 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 decoration for the festival in the burgerweeshuis. If you like us to come to your festival and make beautiful stuff with you and the visitors, just give us a call! (sponsored by Smurfit Kappa Zedek, many thanks to our team: Wilma Koorn, Janneke de Graaff, Astrid van der Velde, Michael Veerman and Koos Schaart. Also thank you Rob Bisseling and the lovely people at KOP-festival) --- - Published: 2012-07-03 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2012/new-music-videos-with-cardboard/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: band, budget, budget production, cardboard, cut, cut copy, inexpensive, Movie, music, music video, new music, production design, production designers, props, ryan patrick, sean wainsteim, video, walk the earth 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 for CUT COPY. https://vimeo. com/41406735 http://www. youtube. com/watch? v=LM8JhvfoqdA --- - Published: 2012-06-29 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2012/an-explosion-of-cardboard-in-the-shape-of-town/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: architecture, audience, battles, beards, Bureaucracy, camera, cardboard maze, cardboard wedding, cardboarders, cardboardia, Cardboardia-team, Cardboardian, city, city with two faces, cocreation, contemporary museum, dmitrij tutterin, dutch, earning, event, festival, free will prison, grim history, gulags, ideas, Janneke, jason webley, karton, kartonkamsk, labyrinth, life, map, material, materialization, meteorological institute, michael novik, Michael Nozik, military industry, minister of culture, netherlands, Perm, personages, project, Quests, RhinoBattles, rhinoceros, rusland, Russia, sergej korsakov, soviet regime, strange things, street art, team, technique, town, Tyran, Vladimir Putin, weird reality, white nights, workshop https://vimeo. com/44605221 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 gulags. Due to it's military industry Perm was a 'closed city' until 1987, with population of 1. 2 million, it didn't appear on Soviet maps! With that grim history in mind we landed in Perm. To our surprise we encountered a lot of (well organised) cultural efforts, a lot of street art, a great contemporary museum and of course Cardboardia (part of the 4 week White Nights Festival). After a very warm welcome by the Cardboardians and our interpreter Veronika we got to work the next day. Things to do, and more things to doWe left the Netherlands with a lot of building plans: A meteorological institute (because Cardboardia doesn’t have weather yet), greenscreen workshops, wings-making workshops, a giant thunderous below and lots of other stuff. In Cardboardia we tried to make some of these things as fast as possible because we got new ideas and soon we got sucked in to the weird reality that’s called Cardboardia; forcing us to make prisons and beards! Bureaucracy is a big part of Cardboardia, it is really entertaining! Cardboardia is not a critical project, it reflects life. The best thing is: if you... --- - Published: 2012-03-28 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2012/cardboardia/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: amsterdam, architect, artistic project, audience participation, cardboard, cardboarders, cardboardia, costumes, country, craftmanship, creative behavior, experiment, helsinki, korsakow, larping, life, materialization, mathijs stegink, Moscow, paper, Perm, perm russia, playfulness, Russia, sergey, town, Tyran 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 process they stimulate playfulness, games and other experimental and creative behavior. Some of their projects are really big! Cardboardia is a country without land that materializes once in a while. Each time another place acts as host for a Cardboardian town. The biggest materialization was in Perm (Russia), but there have also been big towns in Helsinki, Moscow and many other cities. In all these towns Cardboardia motivated people to collaboratively build and inhabit the cardboard towns. There's prisons, theaters, elections and, of course bureaucracy. Cardboardia invites people to create their own character in the town and play with it for a while, expressing and trying out different roles. You can be whatever you want, a shopkeeper, an architect, a king or a slave. It's larping (life action role playing), with the difference that it's more like real life. This actually is more exciting than pleying an elf or a troll. You can also earn money in Cardboardia, each materialization comes with a fully operational economical system, in which you as a visitor can set up shop and sell everything you want, though the Tyran only supplies one material, which is of course cardboard. Though... --- - Published: 2012-03-05 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2012/cardboarders-workshop-at-art-and-design-deltion-zwolle/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: art and design, artists, Btec, cardboard, cardboarders, characters, college, costumes, deltion, emiel sikkema, mathijs stegink, school, suits, workshop, zwolle https://vimeo. com/62690271 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 on the schoolgrounds). On that last day we also found a singer who made the music for what is to become a music video... These pictures already show how cool the costumes turned out! Some of the students already have some wildly unique styles. How's that for a school project? Big "UP! " to al students and teachers/trainers! Want to eat some cardboard with us? We have lots of experience in making people make! YEAH TELL ME MORE! --- - Published: 2012-02-18 - Modified: 2013-09-29 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2012/the-best-cardboard-conglomerates/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: Abandoned Housing Estate Number N., ana serrano, brain, building, cardboard, Cartonlandia, conglomerate, housing, japan, Michel Gondry, nina lindgren, Reuben Miller, shape, strictlypaper, Yaron 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 examples or make them yourself: please let us know and we'll post them here! The one on the left here is made by Michel Gondry for the film "the science of sleep. Gondry made the genre famous :-) Abandoned Housing Estate Number N. This artist was featured on tokyobling. I don't even know her name: does anybody know japanese? http://d. hatena. ne. jp/area-n/ Cardboard Heaven "If I draw a house balancing on one tiny piece of plank it will never fall, unless I want it to. In these own worlds you are the one to decide what reality is and what to be part of another’s consciousness. ” — Nina Lindgren via: strictlypaper Cartonlandia Ana Serrano made Cartonlandia, another colorful conglomeration of little cardboard buildings. "Recently I've been working with cardboard because I find it easy to handle and manipulate, but also I like that it's a mundane and familiar material. " via Reuben Miller Cardboard Brain httpv://www. youtube. com/watch? v=9yH1MfkEucY&feature=player_embedded#! Yaron Steinberg imagined his brain as a city and made a beautiful video of it. The Sky is Falling Annalise Rees says on her website: "The humble cardboard box in all its... --- - Published: 2012-02-05 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2012/cardboard-forests/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: art, bos, cardboard artist, children fantasy, coda museum apeldoorn, complexity, eva jospin, forest, jeroen diepenmaat, mathijs stegink, sculpture, tanja koning, trees, woods A while ago we made this cardboard forest. We made it for the children visiting the CODA museum (in Apeldoorn). It was too low for adults to walk through so they had to crawl along the ground with the children :-) In the back of the woods was someone reading scary stories. The forest was made by Mathijs Stegink, Jeroen Diepenmaat and Tanja Koning. We wanted to make a visualization of the phrase "not see the wood for the trees" and emphasize the way cardboard boxes inspire children (and cardboard artists) to build magical castles, forests, secret hide outs and so on. Another artists that uses cardboard to make forests is Eva Jospin (from France). Her works also show the complexity of the woods. It's the same complexity you see in cathedrals or when looking at the stars. They are constantly shifting between patterns and chaos, just like real forests. It's incredible how she sculpts the material, forcing it to take the shapes she wants to: “Even the best jeweler would find it hard to make anything precise out of cardboard. Everyone relates to the forest, because its references lie not only in mythology, but also in gothic architecture. Forests are places where you can lose yourself as if by magic. " (paris-lifestyle. fr) We found it difficult to find a personal page of Eva Jospin but this is her gallery: with lots of other cardboard things she made. Want to people to tell their animated story during your event?... --- - Published: 2011-11-12 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/from-3d-software-to-3d-cardboard-model/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: 3d, 3ds max, animal, cardboard, cinema4d, cut, cut-out, dutch, fablab, head, illustrator, laser, lasercutter, layering, layers, mathijs stegink, mesh, model, pepakura, planes, splines, vectors, wolf 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 in the east of the Netherlands). A perfect opportunity for us to head of to the FabLab and get busy with their laser cutter! There are a few FabLabs in the Netherlands, we went to the one in Utrecht (called ProtoSpace). I'll try not to be too nerdy but this post will have some light 3d-software lingo: so bear with me. The first thing I tried was a human head made out of massive cardboard. I just grabbed a standard model from Cinema4d, cut off it's head and sliced the head in separate planes using a Boolean operation and a stack of planes. So next steps: turn on sketch and toon and export to illustrator, and after some tweaking (I even had to use Flash somewhere along the way to clean up the paths #gottoloveflash) and ended up with something like this. I added some numbers to be sure I'd recognize the parts after cutting it. After that it was off to the laser cutter and 3 hours later it was finished! In making the cardboard layered wolf we followed roughly the same process, though we used Autodesk's 3ds Max for the modelling. Just too... --- - Published: 2011-10-15 - Modified: 2023-01-23 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/box-over-matter/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: art, berni, box, building, cardboard, cardboarders, carpet, carton, characters, collage, corrugated, design, design printing, dutch design, el lissitzky, flat, flattened, fragmented, goro, graffiti, graffiti artist, graffity, industrial design, japanese kimonos, kimonos, kites, lifespan, map, mr burns, murals, packaging design, Proun, shape, street art, toony, toy, usefullistas, Uzan Kimura, Van-Abbemuseum, Warsaw, wendy plomp 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 to it's original flat shape and use that shape as an inspiration for their art. The picture on the left shows the knife that's used to fold this box. It almost looks like a map of a building doesn't it? The graffiti artist "Mr Burns" used folded out boxes for his "one hundred cardboards". Every piece of cardboard has it's own shape and characteristics (due to manufacturing and wear and tear), Berni uses these as basis for his characters. An impressive series, nice and toony. Wendy Plomp created these disposable cardboard carpets. Wendy went to the design academy, which is probably the reason there's a lot of talk about the usefulness of these cardboard rugs. The lifespan of the box is very short and it's a nice idea to prolong this lifespan by giving the inside an ornamental function. I can't see it being very useful as a rug for a long time, whereas a real carpet would. But still, all our knowledge begins with the senses and a thing of beauty is a joy in itself. The shape of the boxes and the patterns on it also remind of Japanese kimonos and kites. For... --- - Published: 2011-08-23 - Modified: 2012-07-16 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/cardboard-sweatshop/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: aphex twin, boxwars, cardboard, cardboard boxes, cardboarders, cardbots, characters, cheap, cosplay, costumes, creation, creatures, crossing borders, drinkholders, dutch, fun, game, games, glue, groups, hobby, hot glue, interaction, karton, koos schaart, Lamelos, live, lowlands, masks, mathijs stegink, mechanics, participation, performance, reanimation, rik hoogendoorn, robot, robots, robotsuits, sesamstraat, signs, tape, tubes, umbrella's, workshop, zorklands 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 is what we provided at the Lowlands Festival: Rapid Proto Typing for the masses (or as we say in dutch: creatief met kurk, nou ja karton dan). (more... ) --- - Published: 2011-08-23 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/lowlands-cardboarders-movies/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: aphex twin, cardboard, cardbots, dragon, josephine beijer, koos schaart, lowlands, lowlands televisie, mathijs stegink, movies, moving images, pulp, showdown, totem, totems https://vimeo. com/27986431 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 is what we provided at the Lowlands Festival: Rapid Proto Typing for the masses (or as we say in dutch: creatief met kurk, nou ja karton dan). People made masks, signs, umbrella’s, drink-holders and lots more creative things! Many thanks to Lowlands for the opportunity to try this out, props to the Zorklands crew and many thanks to the audience participating! Josephine Beijer made the second movie about the dragonsuits before Lowlands lift off! Our suits got a bit wet after that and began to turn in to pulp... so this is what they supposed to look like :-) https://youtu. be/l_PBV4E8Exw We also made some totems for Aphex Twin... filmed with a phone so quality sucks but still :-) Wonder if he's seen them! --- - Published: 2011-07-09 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/first-amsterdam-cardboard-robot-capture-the-flag/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: 3d, aggression, amsterdam, artists, battle, boxwars, capture the flag, cardboard, cardboarders, cardbots, character, city, corrugated, cosplay, costumes, craftmanship, craftsmanship, creation, creatures, ctf, design, dinosaur, dutch, experiment, festivals, fights, game, games, giant, groups, koos schaart, Lamelos, mathijs stegink, michael veerman, performance, pillowfights, reanimation, robot, robotsuits, roleplaying, sculpture, sensation, street art, suits, superheroes, teams, transformers, tribe, tubes, wittemuizen.nl 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 very enthousiastic. It was very inspiring to see that all teams made such different suits. Next time we will attempt something like this will be during the Lowlands Festival: in the ZorkLands Area of course. The dutch government doesn't support the arts at the moment, they rather support genuine stupidity. It shall not cost us our positivity! We summon up the power of the CardBoard Clan! Make sure to like cardboarders on facebook if you haven't already! https://vimeo. com/22944771 --- - Published: 2011-06-11 - Modified: 2012-04-03 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/seats/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: 3d, aerobics, architecture, art, artists, cardboard, cardboard boxes, cardboard chairs, chair, cheap, competition, contestant, corrugated, design, design competitions, designboom, developers, experiment, foldable, frank gehry, furniture construction, guggenheim, interiour design, knack, material, milling machine, patent, prototyping, rapid prototypes, recyclable, seat, sebastian, shape, shapes, technique, texture, tubes 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 inexpensive yet strong and durable; moreover, a wide variety of interesting and attractive shapes can be formed. " (more... ) --- - Published: 2011-06-07 - Modified: 2023-01-20 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/back-to-first-live/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: 1583-bevbor, art, artists, avatar, cardboard, games, ghandi, halo, Joseph DeLappe, MGandhi Chakrabarti, pepakura, reproduction, second life 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 in Second Live were controlled by walking in real life on a treadmill. Check his work on http://www. delappe. net. DeLappe makes art in the world of games and online communities. Makes you think: why don't we all? We spend more time with our virtual friends then with our real. DeLappe modifies games, hacks games, creates critical avatars and offers insights into the way war is presented in games. It also works the other way around: some gamers want to go back in to real life and game on! They want to recreate the 3d models used in games. These pictures are by someone named Bevbor, he plays the game Halo and this thing is called a banshee! Here's a link to a making of video on youtube: --- - Published: 2011-06-06 - Modified: 2023-01-20 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/pepakura-modeling/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: 3d, cardboard, design, fold out, japan, modeling, models, origami, pepakura, polygons, sculpture, software, taras lesko Pepakura is a software tool that makes it easier to make foldout models out of 3d creation software models. Ofcourse this software is from Japan (free to play with, $35 to use fully). There's some beautiful examples online. Sculptors are trying out computer generated 3d models and then want to bring their onscreen designs back to the real world. Results: large statues made of unexpected materials. Like cardboard for an instance :-) I don't know who made the fist by the way... Wouldn't it be great to have a party and guests could just switch heads the whole time? This is made by Taras Lesko. I'm not sure if he uses Pepakura but I love the surreal edge of his work! https://vimeo. com/2960460 Also very lovable about Pepakura is the packaging of the program itself it looks as if you bought yourself a Commodore Amiga game :-) --- - Published: 2011-06-05 - Modified: 2023-01-20 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/ars-imitatur-naturam/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: animals, animaris rhinoceros, animation, artists, cardboard, creation, creatures, design, dutch, flexible, industrial design, kinetic, live, machine, natalia Rodionova, objects, organic, pinzaan, sculpture, slinky, theo jansen https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=I8QuAB1Ac-E 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. https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=IFVSuUIt8KY There’s always something innately fascinating about a machine or artwork accurately mimicking the movements of the animal kingdom. Natalia's work reminds of the dutch sculptor Theo Jansen who makes carefully designed creatures that are windpowered. This being a cardboard website I especially like to mention the Animaris Rhinoceros. It looks like a combination of an army and an animal! Theo Jansen eventually wants his animals to live on their own so he tries to equip them with means to survive, taking the creation of living creatures a step further than temporary animation. This work by Pinzaan from Taiwan shares some of the same technical principles as the above works but translates them to design. The name of the chair is "Flexible Love" (yes, ladies). It can accommodate a single person as a single-sized seat, but the chair has the ability to expand to a serpentine length to seat parties up to sixteen. https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=dEi1JimHiJs The slinky (the dutch word "traploopveer" translates to "stairwalking spring") is probably a big inspiration to these artists... "What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs, and makes a slinkity soundA spring,... --- - Published: 2011-05-28 - Modified: 2025-11-05 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/just-perfect-nothing-more-says-the-little-voice/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: art, art academy, artist, artwork, cardboard, chris gilmour, copycat, craftmanship, craftsmanship, fake, gesture, hyperrealism, ideas, inspiration, installation, interaction, originality, real, realism, sensation, superrealism, unreal Sometimes it's difficult to separate admiration for someones working ethos from the end result of what they worked on. I'm stunned by the perfection of the works by Chris Gilmour. It's hard to ignore his work when looking for cardboard artists on Google. He's top ranking! There's a lot of people out there that really appreciate the effort and the labor that he puts into these works, I enjoy it too! They're really real... But still... A little voice inside my head, probably something sour, leftover from the art academy, tells me that just representing things is not enough. "It's not art if only the choice of materials and the craftsmanship matter", says the little voice "there's more to a good artwork: like good ideas, originality, interaction, the intention to change or rule the world, the intention to shake me up and recreate my view on the world. " Or just make me laugh. Realism is of course a very interesting subject, but I think we get the idea now... On Chris' site there's some nice thoughts about this subject: "The ordinariness of the actions associated with these objects causes the viewer to unthinkingly act out the gesture associated with it- to type, or to open the car door- and it is this contradiction between the seeming functionality of the objects and the fact that in reality they are “fake”, this peculiar conceptual short circuit, which increases the bewildering effect of the works and lets us into a poetry of... --- - Published: 2011-05-22 - Modified: 2023-01-20 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/city-now-heden-stad/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: animation, architecture, Arnhem, art, cardboard, cardboard boxes, city, crossing borders, dutch, heden stad, hotel modern, Hotelmodern, performance, puppetry, skyline, STAD, stage, theatre 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 on Hotelmodern. nl. From the jury report of the Incentive Prize for Puppetry awarded to Hotel Modern in 1999: “A metropolis is created using an enormous assemblage of empty boxes and other packaging material, along with a sophisticated lighting design and an evocative soundscape. The audience is submerged into the seething, noisy chaos that is CITY for a night and a day. Fridges form a realistic skyline. Tiny illuminated lifts shoot up and down while on the roof a collection of elegant perfume bottles stroll about at a chic party. Earlier on, in a suicidal act, a banana threw itself off the roof. And so we sit, glued to our seats, won over by the obvious pleasure of the workers on the stage floor and the unexpected visual language – comprehensible for a wide age-range of audiences. ” https://youtu. be/XBdncrldygg --- - Published: 2011-05-22 - Modified: 2023-01-20 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/cardboard-tugboat-de-furie/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: artists, boatbuilding, boats, cardboard, coating, durabilaty, dutch, enschede, industrial design, london, tugboat, waterproof https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=5F9nZdUzPTk https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=n5doGw1_8L4 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 is traditional. The goal is seems mainly to show and promote the use of cardboard as a really strong and durable material. There's 600 kilo's of cardboard in the boat (and about 300 kilo's of coating to make it all waterproof). But there's more to it than just promoting the material though most of the press focused on that. The other works of Filip Jonker have names like "ode to the europallet" (a pallet made of meranti wood) and "hommage to the rib" (an inflatable boat made of wood). All experiments with what changes to an existing design if you use an other material to make it. But they're not only experiments with materials, they are also an hommage to industrial design of the dutch "rural" landscape: caravans, wheelbarrows, churches, electric towers, 800 handwrapped bricks on a europallet. And tugboats. View his blog on the boat here... --- - Published: 2011-05-18 - Modified: 2023-01-20 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/a-call-to-arms/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: arms, box, cardboard, cardboardrobot, cardbots, children, costumes, Etsy, extension, festivals, giant, Jason Lentz, mechanical, mechanics, robot, robots, suits, superheroes For all the lazy people out there. This guy (Jason Lentz), sells his Giant Cardboard Robot Arms online! Story goes he raised an interest for his arms by just dropping in on the Makerfair: doing a little dance... The extension of the human body is exciting, hence all the interest in superheroes, we also want superpowers! These robotarms look the right stuff: they are very basic, they have joints, they seem easy to wear. In most other cardboardrobot movies online you see people making beautifull suits. But most of the time something is missing. The makers only thought about the way the robot looks. But they are also supposed to do a task. Doesn't matter what task they do (because most of the robots are really stupid). Maybe their only function is shoving things aside or stopping things. A cardboard robot should look like he's capable of doing something. In the end the most important thing is not that a cardboard robot does something good. The important thing is that he looks good doing it. Let's get a pair of these cardboard robot arms and look good in it :-) Or do some of the cool stuff with it he suggests on Etsy: "Arm yourself with giant cardboard robot arms! Perfect for giant robot hugs, super high high-fives, & terrorizing small children. " But I would have to learn to walk on stilts because that looks even better! (also check his flickr ) --- - Published: 2011-05-16 - Modified: 2023-01-21 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/mechanics/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: art, cardboard, cardbots, dutch, fablab, Fablabs, gears, laser, lasercutter, mechanical, mechanics, project, prototyping, school, technique, Technology, utrecht https://vimeo. com/12480554 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 sound of the cardboard as it spins and the sounds of the people looking at it! Next to making things by hand they also use of the laser-cutter. Laser cutting is a technique that has always been rather expensive to use. Thanks to the Fablabs that start to pop up in several cities around the globe a lot more people gained access to these (and many other) technologies. I'm not sure if they made this in a Fablab but there is one in Utrecht so they probably did :-) If you have one in your neighbourhood you should really check it out because it's a nice initiative and a great way to be able to use very advanced technology for a small price! https://vimeo. com/12364709 --- - Published: 2011-05-16 - Modified: 2023-01-21 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/it-even-works/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: animation, art, artist, camera, cardboard, cardbots, gondry, kiel johnson, realism, sculpture, theo jemison https://vimeo. com/6933339 Make things big: size definitely matters amongst the cardboarding community :-). This Giant Cardboard Camera isn't only beautiful, it also works! Kiel Johnson's cardboard sculpture of a twin lens reflex camera is made strictly from cardboard, hot glue, and tape. It looks fast, forceful and playful even though you feel he probably works his fingers to the bone to make these things! After a while every cardboardista makes a robot. I think it's because cardboard is box shaped most of the times, and robots are too. Kiel Johnson: "There's just something about seeing yourself and a machine combined to a robot". The robot project is a collab between Kiel Johnson, Arthur Mor, Roger LA, and Cypress College Art. https://vimeo. com/21101869 You can find some pictures that are made with the camera on the site of Kiel Johnson, he has some SERIOUS cardboard skills. Normally I really don't care for realism (some artists out there just try to copy reality in to cardboard, now why would you want to do that? ). But Kiel Johnsons work has a sort of graffiti feel to it. The cardboard camera movie is filmed by Theo Jemison. Who also made the little gem underneath. This work reminds me of the film Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry. The quality of this picture is breathtaking. He uses all sorts of lenses and the movie is shot with the canon 5d. Using high tech camera's to film how a extremely low tech camera is made.... --- - Published: 2011-05-16 - Modified: 2023-01-21 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/511/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: 3d, animation, cardboard, cgi, characters, commercial, figurative, footage, Gladiator, miniatures, Motion graphics, Motiongrapher, Movie, psyop, stopmotion, texture, textures, video https://vimeo. com/6754507 https://vimeo. com/6754993 Some animation are worth looking at frame by frame. Psyop is one of the big names in animation. They are well known for big commercial projects that bring back the Awwww in awesome. They make computer generated animations without the "cgi-feel". This is about the series of animations they made for UPS using cardboard as the main material. To give it the real cardboard look and feel they needed to reproduce cardboard in 3d. They didn't only want to deal with the texture but also with all other properties of cardboard: how it tears, what the edges look like, the flexibility of it. This results in a 3d movies that sometimes makes you think that you're watching stopmotion footage of cardboard figures! There's a great interview on Motiongrapher by Brandon Lori with Technical Director and Project Lead Tony Barbieri. "From the start Eben Mears, our director, wanted the spot to look like it was created with miniatures. With that in mind I wanted to rig the characters in a very believable manner, to really emphasis the possibility of them being “real”. To do that, we had to build the characters in a way that they would be built if were we were going to actually create real miniatures. " Another fun fact: they used flash (which was once my favorite animation tool) for the crowds in the Gladiator scene... Makes me feel like less of a looser that even people like that still use flash :-)... --- - Published: 2011-05-15 - Modified: 2023-01-22 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/why-this-is-a-typcally-dutch-blog-nationalism/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: cardboard, drs. P., dutch, dutch song, nationalism, netherlands, oost groningen, paper, strokarton https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=2XjhcM6UIxY 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 do it with cardboard,Usually in the shed but if the weather is nice also on the lawn,This kind of work started in 1870It's true, they told me If you happen to talk to the people of Oost-GroningenIn their modest houses... or else on the streetYou"ll see, how people live and suffer hereAnd for example how they eat breakfast --- - Published: 2011-05-15 - Modified: 2023-01-21 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/cardboard-applause-machine/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: applause, artists, boxes, cardboarders, electronics, hannes zweifel, hanneszweifel, installation, machine, motors, rain machine, soundsculpture, zimoun Or maybe a rain machine... I would love to have seen this installation. It's like an arena with people applauding it. If you've seen it live please share what it was like in real live :-) made by hanneszweifel. ch and zimoun. chIt's well wurth the applause! https://vimeo. com/22651405 --- - Published: 2011-05-15 - Modified: 2023-01-21 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/of-mice-and-man-and-of-cardboard-too/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: architecture, Babylon, building, cardboard, cardboarders, cardboardia, cities, city, constant nieuwenhuis, dutch, dwellings, mice, muizenhuizen, richard derks, town, wittemuizen.nl 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 you'll probably start to think about what it would be like to be a mouse. It also reminds of childhoods filled with building huts and treehouses and it also makes you think of Constant Nieuwenhuis' Babylon I think that's about enough to go have a look :-) --- - Published: 2011-05-11 - Modified: 2023-01-22 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/380/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: box, cardboard, cardbots, cosplay, costumes, robots, robotsuits, transformers, weird hobby Poor animation with poor storytelling. The only good thing about Transformers was of course their ability to... TRANSFORM. This blog is not about copying existing ideas or making real life things out of cardboard. It's about being original. But still... these costumes are made of cardboard and they are robots, and some of them even transform. So that raises awesomeness levels to great heights. Long live all of you girls and boys who like to dress up as robots! Don't let money change you! link to makers of picture: http://monkey5studios. com/ https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=EGvHsbyPhOY https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=_mh2GgervD8 https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=MQoE69oRUf4 https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=8gyQCcNMpK4 https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=TRmexAYNsuQ https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=1y181UAT6Qk --- - Published: 2011-05-08 - Modified: 2023-01-22 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/animated-cardboard-characters-in-holland/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: animation, art animations, blu, cardboard, cardboard characters, characters, dutch, holland, real, sjors vervoort, street art, video https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=18usd0iV3eI 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 cardboard animation reminds me of BLU and it also makes me think: "Whatever I'll make will never be that cool... " --- - Published: 2011-05-08 - Modified: 2023-01-22 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/boxwars-are-no-pillowfights/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: aggression, beast, boxwars, cardboarders, cardbots, characters, costumes, fights, game, game designers, games, groups, havoc, phenomenon, pillowfights, recycled cardboard, role playing games, roleplaying, sport, street art, visual artists, war, weapons Remember pillow fights? Alright: Now Forget Pillow Fights! If you feel like having fun you should try this for a weekend. Cardboard enthusiasts LET OUT THE CARDBOARD BEAST in a phenomenon called BOXWARS. It's aggressive and creative at the same. Like a mixture between art and sport. There's people all over the world forming illustrious groups of cardboard engineers, actors and visual artists. What do they make in the end? Havoc, Mayhem. Boxwars. https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=WYQSKpIC1cI The best movies i found (till now) are made by BOXWARS. They do role playing games involving people dressing up in recycled cardboard and belting each other with cardboard weapons. "It's sort of gone from there and now it's a worldwide thing. " The roughness of it is inspiring. There seems to be a need for manual games, for the non digital way of working amongst these artists. The return of the tactile! All this instead of looking at a screen at a character that (at least for the biggest part) is designed by a guy at a desk. Game designers have the minds of gamers: they are bored. So this is the world they create for us: a world where everything is boring, everything works, everything is possible. Cardboard wars are far from boring: why is that? Probably because everything is real. 3D, Augmented or any other reality can never beat the real reality :-) https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=NXcgZhndI8Y --- - Published: 2011-05-08 - Modified: 2023-01-19 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/cardboard-jewelry-presentation/ - Categories: PORTFOLIO - Tags: cardboard, cardboarders, coda, creatures, dutch, holland papier bienalle, Jewelry, koos schaart, large, mathijs stegink, museum, tanja koning, tribe, wiebke wilting 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 cardboard tribe of gorilla-esque figures: this the result! --- - Published: 2011-05-05 - Modified: 2023-01-22 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/painted-cardboard-houses-japan/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: art, artists, artwork, box, building, cardboard, cardboard type, cardbots, city, dwellings, homeless, homeless people, house painting, inhabitants, japan, japanese, paintings, shinjuku station, street art, structures, tokyo The cardboard dwellings of homeless people in the Shinjuku Station in Tokyo were a 1990s phenomenon. If you go to the website cardboard-house-painting. jp/ about these cardboard houses you can still see some of the beautifull artworks some of the inhabitants made of their temporary shelters. The site is in japanese but if you feel poetic: you can aways count on google translate japanese-english: Cardboard-type settlement here before the Information Center has to plug in a cardboard reviews too many pieces. Kita Tokoro had weak instead of reinforcing the new cardboard. Going to disappear a little bit at a picture of a picture. This is a collaboration with residents in this. also a little information can still be found here: http://www. eyedia. com/gallery/paint/street_en. html --- - Published: 2011-05-04 - Modified: 2023-01-22 - URL: https://cardboarders.com/2011/the-cardboard-artsport/ - Categories: OUR INSPIRATIONS - Tags: boatbuilding, boatbuilding plans, boats, cardboard, cardboard boat building, design, fast, floating, hobby, pulp, regattas, shape, shapes, soaking, sport, structures, tape Live is but a dream! I was thinking of making my own cardboard boat so I googled how to. No surprise that there's a lot of people out there already doing that. There's even regattas and online tips and boatbuilding plans. Visually I found this site the most attractive. There's a lot of interesting structures on it and some nice explanations on why and how they used the material... The shapes are beautifull, and the combination with the black numbers on it sometimes remind of old science fiction movies and modern art! https://vimeo. com/21982818 --- ---