Environmentally Conscious Cardboard Radio

October 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I’ve never been a fan of those giant sound systems with hundreds of little pieces that require a college degree in sound engineering to put together. I prefer old-fashioned radios like this gorgeous little cardboard radio from monsterstuff.co.uk.

This environmentally conscious radio is designed by Christopher McNicholl and the exterior is made entirely from cardboard. With 4 AA batteries and an audio input cable, it can be taken on picnics or used around the office for some background music that you actually enjoy.

* This cardboard radio can be purchased through the Monster Stuff site and more information can be found on techdigest.tv

Really Simple Cardboard Houses

July 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

A lovely way to keep your kids’ imaginations going wild is to make these really simple cardboard houses from discarded boxes.

They are bright enough to keep the kids interested while being plain enough so that they can imagine their own details and change them at will.

*The tutorial from Loft in Soho details exactly how you can make these cardboard houses yourself, which I found via Handmade Charlotte

More Cardboard From Chris Gilmour

May 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

We have featured Chris Gilmour on Fünchkins before, when we spoke about his amazing life-sized cardboard sculptures, this year he has more sculptures that look solid enough to play, drive and stand in awe of. There is even an interview on his website where you can find out the motivation and inspiration behind his cardboard pieces.

The newest Chris Gilmour art pieces can be seen on Beautiful Decay and on the Chris Gilmour website

Cardboard Guitars By Mister

May 17, 2012 By 2 Comments

When your husband loves something as much as Ashley‘s husband loves playing the guitar, it would make sense that he would want to share it with his children. Steve a.k.a Mister Make It and Love It, made these brilliant cardboard guitars for his two elder kids to strum on while he got out his own guitar. With rubber bands stretched across the body and neck, these guitars make enough sound to get your kids rocking and rolling all night long.

Ashley and Steve have been generous enough to supply the templates for the guitars along with full instructions on how to make your own cardboard guitars on the Make It and Live It site

Cardboard Nothing Office

February 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Imagine an  office made entirely of cardboard, changeable, customizable, recyclable. From Nothing Amsterdam, comes the Nothing Office. Made from cardboard and installed within hours, the Nothing office is an idea hatched by Dutch designers, Alrik Koudenburg and Joost van Bleiswijk in 2009 for Amsterdam-based advertising agency Nothing.

Their design is a modular system of cardboard pieces and uses van Bleiswijk’s ‘No Screw, No Glue’ technique.

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Cardboard Goes Full Circle

February 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment

At Domingos Totora, cardboard gets to go full circle from unwanted cardboard waste to a wood finish that would qualify as organic sculptural furniture. [Read more...]

Recycled Cardboard Lanterns

December 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Cardboard, paper and plastic are filling up our landfills, but these can all be recycled easily and cheaply. Graypants recycles cardboard by making lanterns and lampshades from cardboard scraps, if I hadn’t been told these were made with scraps, I would have thought they were specially made cardboard shades! That’s how good they look.

And they make pretty shadows on the walls when the lights come on. There are quite a few different designs of recycled cardboard lanterns, and you can see them all on the Graypants website.

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Life Sized Cardboard Sculptures

August 29, 2011 By 1 Comment

Cardboard Harley Davidson scultpures by Chris Gilmour

In case you were wondering, that is a Life Sized Harley Davidson Panhead motorcycle. I’m sure it would be fully functioning, if it wasn’t, you know made from cardboard. Here at Funchkins we are no strangers to everyday items made from unusual materials like cardboard USB sticks, carved porcelain, beech wood high chairs etc, but the detail on the these sculptures is amazing. Chris Gilmour, the incredibly talented sculptor, creates these masterpieces from just cardboard and glue. I’m sure the time it took him to cut the cardboard, and fold it into the three-dimensional shapes needed to make these sculptures so life-like, would put the price of the cardboard Aston Martin below, around the price of the actual James Bond car.

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More Cardboard Furiture

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Cardboard USB Sticks

April 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In a desperate bid to save the planet from ourselves, we are coming up with newer and radder ways to save our home. And here is one of them.

The Cardboard USB Stick.

It will be disposable, able to store huge amounts of data and best of all, customizable. They will come in magazines, that you can detach and draw on with markers.

Cardboard USBs Writing on your cardboard USB Personalise your cardboard USB

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