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Cardboard city
PUBLISHED 22 Jul 2010 - 11:09am
AUTHOR: London Design Festival
Foldaway bookshop by Campaign; photo Paul Greenleaf
Campaign, who are taking part in this year's London Design Festival, created this beautiful pop-up cardboard Foldaway Bookshop (above) for the London Festival of Architecture. The nice thing about cardboard is that it's the ultimate recyclable. How far can you stretch that thought, though? Take a look at this carboard furniture that was exhibited Melbourne's recent State of Design Festival. Flatform 322 is a fold-down cardboard set designed and build by Toby Horrocks and Christine Aus. Horrocks and Aus ask, "Do you design for longevity and hope your designs don't prematurely end up in... More
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Love to see cardboard (or any material) being used in different ways, and with a bit more thought. Really like Yves Behar's Clever Little Bag for shoes that uses cardboard in a greener way: http://www.fuseproject.com/products-47 

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