Jason Iftakhar got his idea at Sainsbury's. The industrial design graduate wondered where all the cardboard boxes go, having served their initial purpose. He discovered that large supermarkets operate ...

Of all the interior design trends to pop up, you'd be forgiven for overlooking cardboard as a textile you'd want in your home. However, a rise in sustainable living coupled with some epic designs has ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Emilie Langlais’s eureka moment came in 2008. One day as the furniture designer was walking home in Périgueux, a ...

Cardboard boxes contain many intrinsic ecological plus points. Made from cellulose fibres, cardboard can be easily recycled. At the end of its useful life it can even be composted. But because ...

Mike Sheldrake makes surfboards, but he does it with a material most wouldn’t mix with water – cardboard. The unconventional cardboard surfboard idea came to Sheldrake 10 years ago after he quit his ...

Surrounded by verdant mountains, the remote Brazilian region of Minas Gerais is a world away from the narrow Parisian streets in the Marais; yet the organic creations from Domingos Tótora seem ...