Cardboard Gadgets Inspire Rainforest-Destroying Lust

Kyle Bean’s wonderful design project is supposed to be a comment on runaway consumerism. Named Disposable Technology, it is a “response to our consumer relationship with technology and obsolescence”, representing the throwaway culture of gadgets by constructing their likenesses in plain, worthless cardboard. Nice try, Kyle, but you messed up. These cardboard clones are amazing: […]

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Kyle Bean's wonderful design project is supposed to be a comment on runaway consumerism. Named Disposable Technology, it is a "response to our consumer relationship with technology and obsolescence", representing the throwaway culture of gadgets by constructing their likenesses in plain, worthless cardboard.

Nice try, Kyle, but you messed up. These cardboard clones are amazing: Far from making us meditate on the wastefulness of technological progress, they make us wish that somebody would actually make a cardboard camera or corrugated computer. Muji would be the obvious choice for this -- the company already makes cardboard speakers. And the environment would benefit, too. After all, who's going to miss a few more trees?

Product page [Kyle Bean via Design Crave]