A light hearted take on the paper hat, Bob keeps you cool, can be transformed into a light, bowl etc.. simply by scaling and is home made from whatever left over packaging you have to hand.

The unboxing show is part of the 2021 London Design Festival, an opportunity for people to come and make designs by an array of international designers out of previously used card and cardboard materials. The designs are available for the public to build for free at the exhibition with support from workshop assistants. The pieces made at the show will be stamped and numbered while the plans will be available online to download for everyone to create at home.

Participating designers: Sebastian Bergne, Jurgen Bey, Campana Brothers, Eyal Burstein, Chen Chen and Kai Williams, Tom Dixon, Daniel Eatock, Glithero, Marti Guixe, Asif Khan, Max Lamb, Peter Marigold, Michael Marriot, Gareth Neal, Liliana Ovalle, T Sakhi, Study O Portable, Yuri Suzuki and Faye Toogood.

Kiosk N1C, 108 Lower, Stable St, London N1C 4DQ
18th – 26th September 2021
Mon – Sat 10am to 8pm
Sun 11am to 5pm.

Exhibition curated by Peter Marigold

What is the intrinsic imaginary value of material? What it can do? What it can be? The most valuable imaginary material can help us most easily manifest our thoughts, such as clay, paper and paint, not objects which arrive in the post and sit on a shelf. We all understand this as children, but we shrug it off later in life as projected cultural values divert our attention from the intrinsic useful value of materials.

Passive consumption is at the heart of many problems we face today, from the environmental to the social. We accept the objects we buy, the materials they are made from and the world around us as fixed and unchangeable. It is totally unnatural.
The Unboxing Show is an invitation for the public to reconsider the value of a primary waste material from the consumer world: cardboard. Designers and artists have created plans to be made by the public who can then leave with a highly desirable object. The concept of the exhibition is to ask the public to meet the designers halfway, the designer submits the project, the public physically creates it, and by doing so invests the waste material with a new considered value.