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We're not running out of landfill space…

Awesome!

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Space is pretty large bro.

This is so awesome! I'm gonna save up some material to make one, myself

That is frickin incredible! If I had any crafty skills those would be up all through my house, screw normal lamp shades!

This is so awesome! I'm gonna save up some material to make one, myself

That is frickin incredible! If I had any crafty skills those would be up all through my house, screw normal lamp shades!

There's whole moon up there with plenty of craters we could fill with trash.

And paper/plastic type material won't burn/scorch/melt etc. No toxic fumes from the heat of the lamps running all day. Beautiful – just another piece of nice art. But no practicality at all. There's a reason there's recycling. Separate your trash and do your part. Making lampshades out of cartons isn't going to save the world, probably quite the opposite.

yes, evidently we still have your mouth to fill, despite the amount of shit that's already coming out of it.

And paper/plastic type material won't burn/scorch/melt etc. No toxic fumes from the heat of the lamps running all day. Beautiful – just another piece of nice art. But no practicality at all. There's a reason there's recycling. Separate your trash and do your part. Making lampshades out of cartons isn't going to save the world, probably quite the opposite.

Wow now that is awsome. Gonna try that

Wow now that is awsome. Gonna try that

That's nothing. My brother-in-law took a couch and made it into a bed.

That's nothing. My brother-in-law took a couch and made it into a bed.

you're an idiot. why wait to fill up all of the empty space to then start recycling?

What ever some here say it’s good style and concept and one can take inspiration from where ever you get it. To make the lamp commercially viable it will need to be multiplied in a mechanical way. That means producing either more tetra packs or simple make a mold and it may end up at IKEA or which ever store will be willing to carry it. Bravo.

What ever some here say it’s good style and concept and one can take inspiration from where ever you get it. To make the lamp commercially viable it will need to be multiplied in a mechanical way. That means producing either more tetra packs or simple make a mold and it may end up at IKEA or which ever store will be willing to carry it. Bravo.

Now thats a lot of dutch lady coffee milk. you should make furnitures out of these aswell.

Now thats a lot of dutch lady coffee milk. you should make furnitures out of these aswell.

WOW…..you are Good!!!!!!!!

WOW…..you are Good!!!!!!!!

Someone PLEASE post a detailed walkthrough for all that is good and holy.

Someone PLEASE post a detailed walkthrough for all that is good and holy.

Fantastic, thanks for sharing.

Fantastic, thanks for sharing.

believe it…we are running out of space for landfills…towns are built on top of them and the people that purchase the homes are none the wiser…at least this guy is doing something productive with garbage…

if more people would realize how much waste there really is…it's the comments that are negative and the people that don't care that add more waste thank creativity…plus, I blame the companies that use all the plastics…so many people think that there is plenty..yes, plenty of plastics…that will never go away.

I praise this designer Ed Chew, and all the positive comments about him..

Seems as if God gave him a gift we could all use here on this planet…
thank You Ed Chew…

1) be happy with who you are
2) don't eat bananas (they're radioactive)
3) make lamp screens out of milk cartons
4) Take the remaining white materia to a northen crater
5) think you save the world only to realize the world is about to save it self by getting rid of you
6) play less video games
*if you at any point stop being happy about being yourself, and you have not eaten bananas as I told you, maybe you are using cartons of the wrong kind of milk. For further details, please see page 42 of the manual.

believe it…we are running out of space for landfills…towns are built on top of them and the people that purchase the homes are none the wiser…at least this guy is doing something productive with garbage…

if more people would realize how much waste there really is…it's the comments that are negative and the people that don't care that add more waste thank creativity…plus, I blame the companies that use all the plastics…so many people think that there is plenty..yes, plenty of plastics…that will never go away.

I praise this designer Ed Chew, and all the positive comments about him..

Seems as if God gave him a gift we could all use here on this planet…
thank You Ed Chew…

Absolutely full on creative. I love project like this. And how the light reflects on the walls, awesome!

I want to buy one, where could I?
Because I don't have the patience to make one myself.

I actually have begun to build it!
I have already made twelve hexagons. I layed it out and reckoned the boxes im gonna need.
it's already fantastic!

Daniel from Hungary (Budapest)

Brilliant and Creative

Absolutely full on creative. I love project like this. And how the light reflects on the walls, awesome!

I want to buy one, where could I?
Because I don't have the patience to make one myself.

Brilliant and Creative

Great way to recycle ….. Good Job … Great designs too.

Great way to recycle ….. Good Job … Great designs too.

This is awsome however what did you do with the old lamp shades? landfill?

This is awsome however what did you do with the old lamp shades? landfill?

Ok, i can see the triangles and the hex/oct part.
the part i'd like to know is step 2. How do you connect the triangles together?
Also, connecting the hex's and oct's, same method?
I saw some pieces sticking out, but couldn't quite grasp it.

Coffee flavoured milk? You've got to be kidding me!

Ok, i can see the triangles and the hex/oct part.
the part i'd like to know is step 2. How do you connect the triangles together?
Also, connecting the hex's and oct's, same method?
I saw some pieces sticking out, but couldn't quite grasp it.

Coffee flavoured milk? You've got to be kidding me!

Awesome!!!

Awesome!!!

There are still a lot of other environmental issues of filling up landfills with trash.

It also depends on wether you feel that more land should be put to use for landfill and then we have to choose what land to give up.

There are still a lot of other environmental issues of filling up landfills with trash.

It also depends on wether you feel that more land should be put to use for landfill and then we have to choose what land to give up.

How is this "green" again?

How is this “green” again?

think about looking at the 6th, 7th and 9th picture rollin balls

think about looking at the 6th, 7th and 9th picture rollin balls

i wonder how much that coffee flavored milk shit he actually drank just for this project

i wonder how much that coffee flavored milk shit he actually drank just for this project

This is really cool, nice way to recycle but wow it must be time consuming. need to invent a machine to fold them for you

Cool, but I don't understand for how many years a man have to drink this milk to build a lamp

This is really cool, nice way to recycle but wow it must be time consuming. need to invent a machine to fold them for you

Cool, but I don't understand for how many years a man have to drink this milk to build a lamp

how many cartons of milk dose it take to build a light like this

Easy from the first sight, but it's really complicated job well done and difficult to repeat

how many cartons of milk dose it take to build a light like this

Easy from the first sight, but it's really complicated job well done and difficult to repeat

Sweet!

Sweet!

I KNOW!: Let’s distribute drinks in special bottles that go back to the dairies and breweries and sugar-water manufacturers to be re-filled and used again.
Hadn’t thought of that, had you.
Oh what a bright and original idea. No-one’s thought of that before.

I KNOW!: Let’s distribute drinks in special bottles that go back to the dairies and breweries and sugar-water manufacturers to be re-filled and used again.
Hadn’t thought of that, had you.
Oh what a bright and original idea. No-one’s thought of that before.

Nice lamp, but how long did it take to you to put it all together!

100% disco shit

Nice things should always be appreciated … GOOD WORKS

TetraBox Lamp is a finalist in the 2011 International Bright Ideas Lighting Competition! Well done!!!

http://inhabitat.com/bright-ideas-competition/edward-chews-tetra-pak-origami-lamps/

Cool Story Bro

Nice design, but the renderings kind of make me mad. Those shadows are beautiful but there’s no way that’s actually possible. It was interesting but you lowered it by making images that lie about your design. There’s hardly anyone that wouldn’t notice that there’s something wrong there.

so how are you supposed to change the bulb when it burns out lol…

Pretty Amazing! Great, fantastic, wonderful job! Great way to recycle. =]

no dude he would run with his tail behind his trainwreck situation with a balloon on it tied up to a scrotum jelly and orlando magic somehow relates to what i just wrote.

Wow so many comments to this.
Well first thing what wrong with coffee flavoured milk , haven’t you ever drunk chocolate/ almond/ vanilla or the so many other flavours around you which have been added to milk???

I don’t think the guy had to sit around drinking all those milk cartons he probably had them collected through the trash or something simple (and less belly filling) like that.

For all those who are pestering about the making use of the tetrapacks for this not being a method of recycling well guess what YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. (But that doesn’t matter anyway unless you are some sort of PURIST). Waste management/ reduction is made up of 3 main parts which are basically
REDUCE: Use less
REUSE: Use again in the same form
RECYCLE: Re-produce the product from the same material or make other knew material from that product.

From what I see this project is massively about Re-using and a bit also about recycling. so chill people.

And to those saying that the world is going to end because of making things from this well: who said that lamp shades should be made out of this? its a project and a nice DIY project for those who want to promote a recycling project among kids/ students or other adults. So thanks Ed for your inspiration and keep it up man.

P.S. Oh and nearly forgot about the shadows being unnatural. i have yet to see a product marketing campaign that showed the actuality/ reality of the object be it car ads/ food or even household appliances

Oh and also to change the light. I believe he must have been using leds to keep with the efficiency side. So these would easily be changeable (after a long time of use) using a pair of tweezers and some dexterity and if a bulb you could just pull apart some tetrapack triangles and change it through there

While I like this very much, in fact I would love to make one myself… it is misleading that all the images showing the lamp in an environment are 3D renders with the lighting and shadows GREATLY exaggerated. The photo of the physical model showing the much softer shadows is good. I would scrap the renders as they just look weird

And how do I change a light bulb without wrecking it?

That’s ummm,… a lot of coffee.

witty design. Bravo

Yeah… if you wanna buy 50,000 boxes of COFFEE FLAVORED MILK!!

This is really very awesome and quite inspiring. All the time and effort is amazing.

Cool stuff!!!

WTH people, its a god damn lamp.

must of taken a very long time.

Does anybody would have website address dealing with the same thing = some inventive ways to use discarded things ?
Thanks

How much coffee flavoured milk do you need to drink to make one of those!?

Poor guy must’ve been so excited to be getting so many comments…until he read that most of them (read: 90%) dont praise/crit him, but are talking about trash.

This is awesome and I am saving all the kids juice boxes and broth containers for my lil sis who is making one! I am curious though, what did u use for the top and bottom of the cylindrical ones?

wow!

amazing idea!
I will try it too

it looks pretty easy, hope i will manage to finnish it!

best wishes

More than the half of it that I have made already. I’ve bought 160 boxes so far (the cheapest drink in Hungary: Spar Budget Grape/Orange/Apple Juice – it around 20 euro cents ).

Keep fingers crossed for me to finish it until the end of September for my gf’s birthday

Daniel from Hungary

I would love to make one of these for my girlfriend, how many boxes did it take for the second one shown, and how exactly do you fold it?

This is great, one of those things i really wana do but will probably end up forgetting about in a day or so.

It’s incredible what you can do with ordinary things… congratulations!

Are you joking? Where have you been for the last 20 years or so?

BTW, that was my comment to Ethan Allen, who said we’re not running out of landfill space! I worked for Toxic Substances Control for 15 years; we ARE running out of landfill space. Believe it.

And, I love the lantern! Think I’ll make one for my room.

Sorry, I got the name wrong. Ethan Allison.

Boo! We don’t like recycling. We have the right to use as many disposal products as we want to and throw them away no matter how long they take to decompose. That’s what being American is all about. Fuck it. It’s someone else’s job anyway. Go buy a brand new, cheap-looking, overpriced lamp from Target: made in China, where they will soon be doing my job for less and are paying for all the tax cuts I receive because I get pissed when I have to pay for my own country to survive despite it contributing to that deficit that peeves me so. Fierce independence, hippies, do it yourself!

Uh no one said you HAD to recycle… I don’t care either way for rcycling but its just that someone used their creative mind to come up with something nice… Thats whats so great about the country you live in, FREEDOM of speech… As well as actions in this situation… If its not what you’re into then don’t bother saving old stuff to make something just toss it. The Earth will eventually end and thats inevitable… Either way it is your opinion and you’re entitled to it, just learn how to back it up and not sound like some whiny kid who complains too much

Thats a beautiful and simple design. Would take quite some manual labour, but with that result, I can see it is time and recycled materials well spent.
Bravo on the innovative design

I love the look and idea but is this material flammable?

Your works are “green” and very cool!

The pictures look pretty but that is a fire waiting to happen.

that’s insane. i’m gonna try to recreate the first one, just a bit smaller.

that’s pretty awesome

yeah, we together to save the enviornment.

From carton box to triangle to pentagon to clobe. The lamps are wonderful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7 months later and a crazy number of cartons used, im about to finish mine, although i must say, mine is a lot bigger, maybie y screw up the calculations.

Creative! Looks like a lot of work.

Nice

I’m sorry, but we’re already trashing Earth. Now you want to dump everything on the Moon?

“Hey dad, what’s that in the moon?”

“Oh, that’s just the land fills, but don’t worry, you’ll be able to see the rest of the moon later, the workers go home at 10.”

Anyway, the product seems pretty cool.

That is very cool! And for an 11 year old I even know that is WAY to much coffe to drink! Lol just kidding u probably saved all tht over time but anyway, very goo idea 

Cool stuff!!

My inner genius is jealous.

Poor guy must’ve been so excited because of all the coffee he drank in that milk.