Corrugated cardboard is a versatile material. With cardboard engineering skills, a good dash of artistic flair and patience, many artists have created wonderful sculptures from this affordable and widely available material. James Lake Cardboard Artist Paralympic Sculptures James Lake has worked on collaborative art projects since 2007 and...
Aylesbury Box Company has recently had to put up the price of our cardboard boxes. We’re not alone. Globally, the cost of cardboard box manufacture has soared this year and a price increase is the only way for box companies to remain commercially viable. Why has the...
All UK businesses have an obligation to recover and recycle packaging waste. If you feel that this is a burden, you may like to refer to the recent Valpak Packflow 2025 Study. The data suggests that the cost of this resource management is significantly lower...
Millions of unexploded land mines remain buried across the world. Cheap to produce and with the ability to remain active for 50 years, these weapons are widespread and deadly. According to the United Nations, around 2,000 people are injured or killed by land mines every...
Cardboard is a widely available and highly adaptable packaging material. It can be cut, shaped and printed without the need for complex tools or specialist skills. As such, it is ideal for the development of new packaging designs. Every year the Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI)...
Keeping the kids happy during the school holidays became a whole lot easier at The Eden Project last week. Game On encompassed a variety of interactive challenges that were played by people of all ages and nationalities. As part of the week-long celebration of video games,...
Sustainability: a word that has edged its way into board room discussions, seminars and training and process management. As with any initiative, a convincing argument is crucial for the concept to catch on. Business owners need more than ‘doing your bit for environmental protection’ to take...
A few months ago, our blog focused on an international board game competition, known as the Cardboard Edison. This annual event encourages individuals to submit ideas for new card or board games, which are tried and tested by a game obsessed judging panel. The winners...
Looking for a new challenge in 2017? How about designing a board game? In a world of digital technology and computer games, it might seem that there is little market for the traditional board game, but they still prove popular. Each year people from around the world submit...
The James Dyson award focuses on supporting innovating ideas from design and engineering students around the world. At the end of 2016, Isis Shiffer, a graduate from the Pratt Institute of Design in New York received this year’s top prize. Her invention is the EcoHelmet; a...