<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/076b44af-a1c2-4471-9d20-34523b6b65ff/88A5DE6F-C42D-4878-B0F8-177845B26299/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/27/tv-packaging-turns-into-tv-stand/" href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/27/tv-packaging-turns-into-tv-stand/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.inhabitat.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/27/tv-packaging-turns-into-tv-stand/"><DIV class="post"> <SPAN class="date">September 27, 2007</SPAN> <H2 id="post-5877"><A title="Permanent Link to ECO TV PACKAGING TURNS INTO DIY FURNITURE" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/27/tv-packaging-turns-into-tv-stand/">ECO TV PACKAGING TURNS INTO DIY FURNITURE</A></H2> by <A title="Posts by Rich" href="http://www.inhabitat.com/author/rich/">Rich</A> <DIV class="entrytext"> <P><IMG alt="TV PACKAGING TURNS INTO TV STAND, Tom Ballhatchet, Eco TV stand, Reuseable Packaging, Furniture made from Packaging, Packaging Furniture, Recycling packaging for furniture" src="http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/tvshelfthingies1.jpg" /></p> <P>In its quest for ‘bigger and better’ technology, mankind is facing a mountain of expanded foam pieces and polystyrene packing material used to protect items during handling. <A href="http://www.tomballhatchet.com/" target="new">Tom Ballhatchet</A>, a recent graduate from the Central St Martins’ MA in Industrial Design, has come up with a simple and utterly plausible solution. Rather than throw away the packaging and leave nature (and a few hundred years) to deal with it, <A href="http://www.tomballhatchet.com/" target="new">Ballhatchet’s</A> concept allows the user to slide foam casing apart after delivery and reassemble the parts to form a neat self-contained entertainment stand with built in cable management system. </p> <P><SPAN id="more-5877"></SPAN>With a patent imminent, Ballhatchet’s design is already generating a lot of interest - and we hope to see this idea applied to more packaging design in the future.</p> <P><STRONG><A href="http://www.tomballhatchet.com/tvpackagingstand1.html">+ Tom Ballhatchet Eco TV Stand</A></STRONG></p> <P><IMG alt="TV PACKAGING TURNS INTO TV STAND, Tom Ballhatchet, Eco TV stand, Reuseable Packaging, Furniture made from Packaging, Packaging Furniture, Recycling packaging for furniture" src="http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/tomballhatchelecostand.jpg" /></p> <P><IMG alt="TV PACKAGING TURNS INTO TV STAND, Tom Ballhatchet, Eco TV stand, Reuseable Packaging, Furniture made from Packaging, Packaging Furniture, Recycling packaging for furniture" src="http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/tomballhatchetsecotvstand2.jpg" /></p> <P><IMG alt="TV PACKAGING TURNS INTO TV STAND, Tom Ballhatchet, Eco TV stand, Reuseable Packaging, Furniture made from Packaging, Packaging Furniture, Recycling packaging for furniture" src="http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/tvselfthingy2.jpg" /></p> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/88A5DE6F-C42D-4878-B0F8-177845B26299/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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