When you have a stack of cardboard boxes in the corner, recycling is one option, but before breaking down those boxes, check ...

Cardboard boxes are a perfect shape and size to create stylish storage baskets. Just cover them with a decorative layer to ...

It looks like a flattened cardboard box. But with a few folds, a new design transforms into a low-cost bed that can be used at shelters after a disaster. “It’s one of the most in-demand, basic pieces ...

DETROIT — This is a story about a box. That's it, just a box. "It's not rocket science," said Rudy Youell. "It's almost so stupid it's ridiculous. But it's saving so much money it's amazing." His ...

Packaging is an ancient practice. Humans have been improvising containers for holding and transporting things for millennia, from baked clay vases to tanned leather satchels to sawed and nailed wooden ...

There comes a time in every weekend when one feels an overwhelming need to order pizza for delivery, and standing in the way is just one technological obstacle. The pizza has to make it from oven to ...

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 ...

The opening description 'it is a material of endless possibilities', pretty much sums up the ethos of this thought-provoking book by Michael Czerwinski and Santiago Perez. Paying homage to this cheap, ...