Pizza Box Art

Edmond Cardboard Boat Regatta floats fun

2011-09-03T16:51:00.000-07:00

This is the third year for the regatta, which is held at Arcadia Lake. There were 32 boats racing this year, compared with 40 that took to the water last year. “Quite a few sank,” Self said. “It was just a lot of fun. It is the most fun event we have.”

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'World's first' cardboard vacuum cleaner

2011-09-03T16:37:00.000-07:00

A vacuum cleaner made mostly of cardboard, which the manufacturers claim to be a 'world first,' will be on display at consumer electronics and technology show IFA in Berlin.

The vacuum cleaner - called the Vax ev -was designed by student Jake Tyler of Loughborough University in the UK

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Creating a cardboard cathedral

2011-09-03T16:28:00.000-07:00

In the aftermath of a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in February that rattled Christchurch, New Zealand, officials for the quake-ravaged ChristChurch Cathedral -- which had served as the city's centerpiece since 1864 -- have been working with Japanese architect Shigeru Ban to build a 700-person-capacity cardboard cathedral as a temporary replacement.

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Cardboard Boats Set Sail In NY - Jackson News Story - WAPT Jackson

2011-05-09T07:57:00.000-07:00

Cardboard Boats Set Sail In NY - Jackson News Story - WAPT Jackson

An Apartment Made Entirely of Cardboard

2010-07-24T14:44:00.000-07:00

This is an art installation rather than a functional home... view more

Leo Kempf Cardboard Furniture

2010-07-23T22:55:00.000-07:00

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Build a Table from a Cardboard Box

2010-07-23T22:50:00.000-07:00

Here is a nifty how-to build a table from a box

It's Cardboard and it's Cool!

2010-03-10T15:27:00.000-08:00

From Freshome.com: "The Internationally acclaimed award-winning furniture designer Reinhard Dienes, is debuting an exclusive line of cardboard furniture with Fashion4Home. The furniture pieces are lightweight, sturdy and 100% recyclable as well as playful."

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The Cardboard Christmas Tree

2009-12-04T13:52:00.000-08:00

Instead of a real tree, try a tree from recycled cardboard.

"The Cardboard Christmas Tree was designed and developed by Cloud Gate Design LLC, a Chicago based design house. Cloud Gate Design was started in 2006 by two friends, Nick Ng and Dan Greene, as a way to bring their environmentally conscious product alternatives to market.

One of these products is the Cardboard Christmas Tree, which helps extend the life of existing cardboard by using recycled corrugated cardboard for both the tree and its packaging.

In addition, a portion of the profits from the Cardboard Christmas Tree sales are donated to the Arbor Day Foundation's Trees for America program. Through this program, for every one dollar donated one tree will be planted in a damaged forest."

Houston Resident Design Cardboard Computer Case

2009-09-17T12:01:00.000-07:00

The cardboard-housed computer, born of his graduate thesis at the University of Houston, is an extreme example of implementing sustainable design to the entire life cycle of a product, he says.

Aside from using a recyclable material, the case requires less time, labor and parts to produce. And when it's time to trash it, he says, there will be fewer parts to send to landfills.

The cardboard case, which can be assembled without fasteners and screws, eliminates the need for those parts and the manufacturing processes used to create them.

“We don't realize how much effort it takes to do. A computer is something that will be disposed of and we'll dispose of it because of its finite life, so why do we put so much effort into producing it?” he asked.

And the quick disassembly makes it easy to separate items from other components and toss them in the recycling bin, eliminating the need to separate screws, metals, plastics and other materials that can go into a case, he notes.

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Build a Sturdy DIY Cardboard Laptop Stand

2009-08-19T13:52:00.000-07:00

We've put cardboard to good use as a laptop stand once before, but if that corrugated stand just didn't seem quite sturdy enough to trust with your laptop, this alternate version offers a more robust alternative.

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DIY iPhone 3GS Box Dock

2009-08-19T13:00:00.000-07:00

Since the new iPhones do not come with a dock,"Vince Tang employed the dock plate included with his 3GS, along with his docking cable and a fair share of glue" and used his iPhone box to make a dock.

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Recycled Cardboard Christmas Tree 2008

2008-12-31T04:08:00.001-08:00

Christmas Tree Complete
Originally uploaded by CyclotronX

Making a Christmas tree from cardboard, ornaments from yogart cups and lids.

See more images in my Flickr set for cardboard Christmas Tree

Christmas Tree Made From 70 SCSI Hard Drives

2008-12-30T17:34:00.000-08:00

From Make.com click for details

Cardboard laptop rack for exercise bike

2008-12-30T17:26:00.001-08:00

Cardboard laptop rack for exercise bike
Originally uploaded by CyclotronX

Materials box from Pizza Hut pasta, glue, packing tape. Basically I stuck the box on the bike to use to make template, but the box fit so well I just cut it with scissors and many of the folds just worked out.

Can I compost Cardboard?

2008-06-14T17:37:00.000-07:00

Yes

"Cardboard adds lots of great carbon to a compost heap. It rots down quicker if it's wet and torn into small pieces (the tearing is also easier if it's damp). If you've got a lot of it, try to alternate layers with other matter."

from compostthis.co.uk

blog: mein™ inspiration

2008-06-14T14:51:00.000-07:00

mein™ inspiration is the resource for inspirations and fixations to be gathered and shared.

Cardboard Sound Box (A place for listening)

2008-06-14T14:48:00.000-07:00

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"Re-Furnished" Recycled Cardboard Chairs from University of Idaho Student Designers

2008-06-14T14:46:00.000-07:00

Story at TreeHugger.com (several pictures)

REUBINMILLER FYS (Finish Your Self) junior Cardboard chair

2008-06-14T14:37:00.000-07:00

Story and more pictures

from Tobias Putrih’s “Macula” series, shapes cut from corrugated cardboard

2008-06-14T14:33:00.000-07:00

story at NYT

Pair of FRANK GEHRY Easy Edges side chairs of laminated corrugated cardboard.

2008-06-14T14:27:00.001-07:00

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Hack a Cardboard Box into a DIY Solar Oven

2008-06-14T13:51:00.000-07:00

From Lifehacker: "Eco-friendly weblog The Daily Green details how to turn a cardboard box into a DIY solar oven for a little weekend fun in the sun. All you'll need is the box, some construction paper, tin foil, plastic, and a few other items you're likely to have around the house, and when you're done you'll have a full-fledged cardboard cooker."

[via Daily Green]

Lifehacker has a Flickr photopool from those who have attempted this project.

Recycled Microwave Steamer and Strainer

2008-05-02T23:35:00.000-07:00

Don't you hate it when you heat something in the microwave there is always a puddle of water in it? I do too. So I made this device from frozen entree plastic dishes to let the water drain away. It also enhances the cooking, making foood taste better.

View my Flickr set for instructions to Do It Yourself.

DIY Recycled Cable Spool

2007-09-28T14:04:00.000-07:00

Works great with iPod headphones and cellphone ear pieces!
Have a stack of empty trays from a frozen dinner binge? Turn them into useful cable spools. Each tray can make about 4 cable spools. First I designed my shape in Adobe Illustrator. I pinced the the sides a little and the hole is roughly the diameter of your standard hole-punch. I printed out a sheet of templates. Cut them out. Then used clear packing tape to afix them to the frozen dinner tray. I started the cut ordinary scissors, but paused as I passed a corner to punch the hole. If you cut it all the way out, the tape will nolonger hold the template in place. The last step is to cut a slit to the hole so you can slip the cable in the hole. I haven't determined if angled or straight is best.

Download a PDF of the cable spool templates.

Reuse Those Trays
These trays are great for warming food in the microwave. Some can be used in the oven! Two identical trays make a bottom in a lid. Cover your food, keeping it moist and the microwave clean. You can even use them to keep left over by covering with foil or plastic wrap.

If you don't reuse them, please rinse off and recycle them.

Hot Tray Caddy for Frozen Dinners

2007-09-28T13:21:00.000-07:00

Laugh in face of uncomfortable temperatures and cautionary warnings!
Reuse that box your frozen dinner came in as a caddy to carry that hot tray fresh out of the microwave. Trace the top rim of the tray on a side of the box. Then, redraw the oval line about a quarter of an inch inside the trace-line. Note the ends of the oval are square-ish so adjust the inner line accordingly. Use an X-acto knife to cut the shape out. It helps to reseal the end of the box with some packing tape first. It makes the box less flimsy.

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More projects at my blog, Pizza Box Art

Environmentally-Friendly End Table

2007-07-20T18:28:00.000-07:00

I had this box sitting around for weeks and I started using it as an end table. So one day I decided why not just transform it into an actual end table!

'Cardboard can' for soda?

2007-06-20T10:02:00.000-07:00

What in the name of sustainability is a "cardboard can" that's under development for carbonated soft drinks (CSDs)? Even the developer admits the idea may be ahead of its time.

According to Alan Hart, VP consumer products-USA of Sagentia Ltd. (www.sagentia.com), the company is more a "do-tank" than think-tank. And while it has been thinking for some time about the concept of a "cardboard can," now they are trying to do something about it.

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Zombies!!! Card tray and playing piece bins.

2007-05-19T23:54:00.000-07:00

This is how the box should have been designed...

Whoops! I have been working on trays for my Zombies!!! game and TWICE I freakin' miscalculated. At least on the first tray I caught it on the mock-ups. I just finished the larger tray which is supposed to optimize space in the box and it did just the opposite... Not sure what I was thinking. I guess I was a little rushed when I started designing the schematic. I even printed it today once and saw before cutting it was off and missing parts and edited it. Oh well.

New schematic done.

The one thing that sucks is that I am running out of paper. I get these design magazines that have paper sample in them - you know the ones that are all stiff and make it difficult to thumb through the magazine? I have been using those cause they are pretty heavy. I'd guess 60#-100# card stock. Plus, because they are printed on, they make interesting trays.

The card tray:

The mockup shows what it looks like with the cards in the tray

The playing piece bin-tray:

Nice - but way too big for its intended purpose

The re-engineered bin(s)

After making a bin that worked, I decided to make two bins with subdivisions for all the game pieces. Bonus, the bins are designed to be used during game play.

Naturally, I ate out of bins!

Bins keep things neat.

For more pictures and description:
Flickr set for the playing card tray

Flickr set for the playing piece bins

2006 number1

2007-05-12T01:46:00.000-07:00

Inspired by art found in the movie "Heathers" 38x28"

2005 Christmas Card

2007-05-12T01:35:00.000-07:00

This isnt made from a pizza box, but its made from paper...

I Designed in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Printed with an Epson C80 on Simpson Evergreen paper. Hand trimed with a straight edge and a rule. Hand folded. Made about 50 of these.

Pizza Box Popcorn Bowl

2007-05-12T01:03:00.000-07:00

Bowl fits the average 3 oz microwave popcorn bag.

Materials: Empty pizza box, an Xacto knife or scissors, masking tape, a pen, and one 3 oz. package of microwave popcorn, popped.

See my Flickr set for complete instructions

DIY Wine Rack from a Box

2007-03-17T01:51:00.000-07:00

Do it yourself wine rack with a an Amazon box:

I am thinking I want to keep them on. I have a few of these boxes. That means you can make stackable wine racks.

To start, make some templates of the wine bottle girth. By lying the bottle in the box, you can get an idea of how the bottle will sit. Remember, the bottle should tilt towards the cork. You can achieve this by making the bottom of opposing cutouts at the same height.

Tip: use the widest bottle you have to make the templates.

You can see I sketched out traces of both ends of the bottles (inner circles) then I roughly sketched out the shapes I will cut out. (I used previously used paper in order to conserve.) I've also added about 3/16ths of an inch to the the trace. The bottle will still sit snuggly, but not pinched.

Afterthought: I discovered after cutting I made the neck slots a little too wide.

Now I will cut these out and trace them on to the sides of the box. Use a ruler or such to line up the center of the cutouts on the opposing sides. Since this the mock-up, I am just eyeballing it. You can also measure from the edge of the box equal distances on both sides and align the center of the cutouts to those markings. Aw, heck, I'll measure mine too. My box is about 12 inches wide so that will be the center of my center cut outs. Once that cut out is marked, I'll eye ball the left and right cutouts, centering them in the space.

Tip: you can find the center of the cutout by folding it in half.

I've taped the cutouts on the same side to check the depth. I can probably add a quarter inch to the depth of the cutouts you can also see that we'll get about three bottles in this wine rack. Alternating the direction of the bottles and squeezing them together you might be able to rack 4 bottles. For this mock-up I am just going to accommodate 3 bottles in the same direction.

Now I will trace the cut outs on both sides.

After the cut outs are traced, I cut them out with an Xacto knife.

Here is the wine rack with bottles in it.

Here is the wine rack with the flaps taped into position.

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Tip: If you use boxes of the same size, you can stack these. Now you can stack them in a cabinet or closet. If your wine racks are out in the open, cover them with contact paper before cutting. Or, you can paint them. The cardboard soaks up paint, so be sure to use a primer.

Wii Controller Holster

2007-02-21T18:19:00.000-08:00

Everyone needs a place to store the controllers! My latest frozen pizza box project is a Wii controller and nunchuck holder.

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See my Flickr photo-set.

Materials:
frozen pizza box
dry cleaning hanger
X-acto knife
ruler
pencil
white glue

Step one: sketch out the pattern on a piece of paper. The controller pocket is 1.5 x 1.25 x 6 inches. The nunchuck pocket is 2.5 x 1.75 x 5 inches. That back piece is 5 x 6 inches. I used an extra 2 in on three sides, folded back and glued down to re-enforce the back piece, make it stiffer. The hanger is bent to fit the end of my desk.

Step two: carefully open the glued end of the frozen pizza box . Using the ruler and pencil draw the pattern on the cardboard. You should be able to get both pockets on one side of the pizza box.

Step three: DOUBLE CHECK THE DIMENSIONS. My first pass through I made two controller pockets. Didn't realize it until I glued them down. Had to tear it apart and reglue new pockets.

Step four: Carefully use the X-acto and ruler to cut out the pockets and back piece. Use the back of the X-acto to lightly score the folding lines.

Step five: Bend the folds. You can lay the ruler against the bend to help keep the bend straight.

Step six: Once all the pieces are cut and bent, start gluing the pockets. I glued the pockets first before I glued the back. It's best to use a scrap of cardboard to spread the glue evenly and completely.

Step seven: Carefully bend the hanger to the dimensions you need. I used some pliers to help. I began bending by making the hanger straight. For the hanger that is under the cardboard its best to extend both ends so they overlap.

Step eight: lay out the bent hanger and carefully cut two holes just below the fold on the back. You should be able to insert the hanger without unbending it. Once the hanger is in, you can glue down the flaps. Its ok to liberal with glue on the area the hanger is against the cardboard.

Your done! Give it time to dry before using.

Extra: you can paint it or color it!