Wearable cardboard

In 2008, from a nasty little bedsit in East London, I spent 2 weeks building a cardboard suit of armour - a pseduo-protective intervention for catalysing risk-experiences. This photoset documents it's construction.

Recycle.Fold. Curve. Cut. Adjust. Glue. Repeat... Working on a wearable cardboard dress💚 #alinescardboard #cardboard #fashionweek…

Every year, art and design students at Strode College in the UK use old cardboard to make fashionable costumes. One professor describes the impact the project has on students:Duncan Cameron, Strode College's Sculpture Teacher, said: "We always kick of the year with a project to warm up the students' creativity after the summer holidays and to get them working together. They've shown great design and construction skills and created some fantastic costumes using only recycled cardboard, brown…

Did this for a Wearable Sculpture Project! I plan to give it more color with paint and fabric for texture but I'll have to do that later My materials we... Dragon Helmet

by Woody EvansArchitect Sophia Vyzoviti pushes, cuts, pleats, folds, and shreds the edges of architectural design – to startling effect. I was a librarian to architecture and engineering departments at a community college for some years, and found myself often promoting her work on folding...