ECO TV PACKAGING TURNS INTO DIY FURNITURE
Posted By Rich On September 27, 2007 @ 12:00 pm In green furniture,Recycled Materials,Transforming Furniture | 17 Comments
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In its quest for ‘bigger and better’ technology, mankind is facing a mountain of expanded foam pieces and polystyrene packing material used to protect items during handling. Tom Ballhatchet [5], a recent graduate from the Central St Martins’ MA in Industrial Design, has come up with a simple and utterly plausible solution. Rather than throw away the packaging and leave nature (and a few hundred years) to deal with it, Ballhatchet’s [5] concept allows the user to slide foam casing apart after delivery and reassemble the parts to form a neat self-contained entertainment stand with built in cable management system.
With a patent imminent, Ballhatchet’s design is already generating a lot of interest – and we hope to see this idea applied to more packaging design in the future.
+ Tom Ballhatchet Eco TV Stand [6]
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