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Incredible Cardboard! Free Kindle Book: Instructables Authors. Paper Lights & Lampshades. Forget The Shelves: Sit On Your Magazines. Recycled Magazines Stool. Making A Magazine Stool. Do you subscribe to a weekly or monthly magazine and you just don't know what to do with them after you've read them? At last week's P! D The Upcycle Village (which I blogged about here), we were taught how to make a Magazine Stool with old magazines! They had a lot of Her World back issues donated to them by the publisher, SPH. Check out the steps below. Roll up 18 old magazines very tightly and secure with rubber bands on either end. Yvonne (from MacPherson CC) informed us that magazines 1cm in thickness are the best. Stack four rolls into a square and secure corners with cable ties. Then add two rolls at a time and secure until you have 7 layers of magazines.
Remove the elastic bands. And your done! Looks comfy, right? Have you made anything with magazines? Portable Cardboard Toilet. Laser Printer Made Of Cardboard. Electronic waste is a big problem, and it’s not going to go away until we, as consumers, demand that manufacturers take responsibility for what happens to the products they create once they’re no longer usable. Right now, when an electronic gadget like a printer breaks, our only option (if it can’t be repaired) is to give it to a recycling center, hoping for the best, and purchasing a new one. But surprising and innovative new products could change all that. The developers of the Samsung Eco-Conscious Origami Cardboard Mono Laser Printer set out to look at printers in a new way.
Knowing that printers have a significant impact on the environment by consuming a lot of paper, they realized that a cardboard construction could make use of that recycled paper, sort of ‘closing the loop’ in a way. It comes in a flat piece of cardboard that is folded around the electronic guts according to instructions printed right on the box. When the cover wears out, you can simply get a new one.
Cardboard Door - A Quick Fix. Newspaper Wood By Mieke Meijer + Vij5. The Newspaper Wood is a collaboration between 2 Netherlands designers, Mieke Meijer of Mieke dingen and Vij5, the designlabel that was started by Arjan van Raashooven & Anieke Branderhorst. Mieke Meijer came up with the idea to use piles of discarded daily newspaper making it into a renewed material. The layer of paper appear like lines of a wood grain and the rings of a tree just like a real wood when the Newspaper Wood is cut.
It can be cut, milled and sanded and generally treated like other type of wood. The designers:Mieke Meijer Designer of Mieke dingen, which she produces on a small scale in her own workshop. Sustainability, utility and beauty are the guiding principles that define Mieke dingen. Mieke dingen matches the needs of the consumer long term and fit well into their environment. Flexibility is the key to the choice of basic principles for Mieke dingen: whether it is materials, everyday situations or certain specific techniques. “We enjoy different visions at situations.