This heavyweight paper becomes a primary material for eco-friendly design
Implications - Cardboard has typically been used for things like food takeout containers, shipping boxes and the like, but over the course of the year, designers have been applying it to everything from architecture to branding. An eco-friendly building material, cardboard is also heavier than ordinary paper, making it more practical for construction and design. The use of cardboard seems to have no bounds, especially as designers and companies get more creative with it.
Trend Themes
1. Cardboard as Sustainable Material - Businesses can explore innovative ways to use cardboard as a more eco-friendly and heavier alternative to ordinary paper such as Cat Houses, Churches, Coat Hangers, and Playgrounds.
2. Cardboard as Creative Branding Element - Incorporating cardboard into branding efforts, such as using it to package products, allows for a unique and practical approach, for example, Aufschwung Swing packaging and Reinhard Deines 'Dickens' bookshelf.
3. Cardboard as Offbeat Luxury Material - Luxury companies could explore cardboard as an unconventional yet elegant material for temporary design, such as Hermes + Shigeru Ban Pavilion, showcasing home objects in a modular pop-up structure made entirely out of paper.
Industry Implications
1. Sustainable Architecture - Architects can explore using cardboard as a more eco-friendly and affordable building material as demonstrated by the 1864 Cathedral in New Zealand and Bloomberg Meeting Space by Lazerian.
2. Environmental Interior Design - Interior designers can incorporate cardboard into their projects as demonstrated by the unique, sustainable, and functional Pupa meeting area inside Bloomberg's London headquarters, enhancing the acoustical and structural elements of the cardboard material.
3. Creative Eco-friendly Branding - Businesses can incorporate simple yet sustainable cardboard packaging to showcase their products and increase its aesthetic values, such as the modern Aufschwung Swing packaging, the luxury Hermes + Shigeru Ban Pavilion and the Reinhard Deines 'Dickens' bookshelf.
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