Fun fact by the Anti-Disposables :
An ordinary cardboard box was recognised as a toy and earned a place in the National Toy Hall of Fame at the Museum of Play in the US.
Which makes perfect sense.
A child sees a vehicle, a hideout, a fort, a ship — or something adults haven’t managed to name yet.
An adult sees recycling.
We saw an organizer.
( The Anti-Disposables don’t write directives. For now, they’re cutting up old delivery boxes )
Missed out? Make your own.
Our wooden organizers Catch Me disappeared faster than we could say ‘we’re making more’, so Catch Me DIY was born.
Same idea, only more make it yourself than buy it now.
Download the templates from the icons below, print them on the blank
side of used paper, then: cut, fold, glue. Paint it,
cover it or leave it as it is. Cardboard won’t be offended by the lack of styling.
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Prepare a sheet of cardboard at least 65 cm wide. A flattened shoebox will do. Arrange the cut-out templates on it as shown in the diagram and trace around them. If you’re using recycled cardboard, try to line up the dashed lines with the existing folds.
Cut along the black lines. Use a metal ruler for the straight sections. Score the dashed lines first with the blunt tip of your scissors, then fold the cardboard.
Look how we use the natural folds of our recycled cardboard box.
Glue the outer brown flap to the yellow shape.
Glue the inner brown flap to the blue shape.
The box is almost ready for its new role. It just needs some support. Wooden and available here.
And the gentleman below?
He was created in Windsor, because one street was so perfectly tidy that something had to be done about it.
So in came the cardboard.
A little pointless, but exactly where it needed to be. It did nothing for urban planning. Image-wise, it did what it could.
