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The first standing desk that is a!ordable, simple, and green.

Great for home o"ces, growing businesses, and co-working

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Meet the cardboard standing desk. Put simply, a standing desk allows you to work on

your feet rather than sitting idly. When you are standing up you are free to move.

Standing while working requires balance, engaging your back, shoulders, and leg

muscles, burning energy, and keeping you focused. It's a great way to make working

healthier.

We noticed that o"ce-worthy standing desks are ridiculously expensive. Standing

desks range from $500 to over $2000 and the only alternative is to hack together

solutions from furniture parts. So, we redesigned the standing desk from scratch to

make it both elegant and a!ordable.

scale standing desk model and pledge

your allegiance to the cardboard

standing desk. Shipping to US

addresses included.

Estimated delivery: Jul 2014

Ships within the US only

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. 200 backers All gone!

Early Bird Standing Desk. Early

backers should get a good deal. Get

the cardboard standing desk and pave

the way for the cardboard revolution.

42"L x 24"W x 42"H. Shipping to US

addresses included.



Pledge $85 or more

. 52 backers

Standing Desk. Get the cardboard

standing desk and stand up for

sustainability, mobility, and cardboard.

42"L x 24" W x 42"H. Shipping to US

addresses included.



Pledge $160 or more

. 4 backers Limited (46 left of 50)

Standing Desk with Custom Graphics.

Get a cardboard standing desk

personalized with your name or

company logo in black vinyl lettering.

42"L x 24"W x 42"H. Shipping to US

addresses included

Estimated delivery: Aug 2014


Pledge $450 or more


The Small Start-up. Get a cardboard

standing desk furniture set that

supports a creative team of six.

Shipping to US addresses included.



Pledge $1,800 or more


The O"ce. Get your o"ce furnished
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Here's where our hero, corrugated cardboard, comes in. Corrugated cardboard is

lightweight, durable, recyclable, and inexpensive. It's the perfect medium for a new

breed of standing desks.

After months of prototyping and testing with our New England manufacturing facility,

we whittled the standing desk down to its most basic form, minimizing material and

maximizing functionality. No glues, fasteners, or extraneous parts, simply folded

cardboard. The cardboard standing desk was born. Made in America and proud of it.

Funding period

Mar 13 2014 - Apr 12 2014 (30 days)

with a cardboard standing desk

furniture set that supports a creative

team of ten. Plus get a Chairigami

lounge area that seats six. Our founder

will personally customize your creative

cardboard workspace. Shipping to US

addresses included.


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The cardboard standing desk is so l ight, you might even forget it's there. You can't

help but bring your work surface with you to your favorite spot by the window.

It weighs only 15 pounds.

In today's start-up culture, things change quickly and o"ces need to be flexible. The

cardboard standing desk makes it easy for teams to test new floor plans and

accommodate new employees. By supporting mobility in the workplace, the

cardboard standing desk stimulates spontaneous creative collaboration .

The cardboard standing desk is stronger than you think.

It can hold up to 300 lbs and lasts 2-3 years.

The corrugated cardboard we use is incredibly durable and the great news is, the

more weight you put on the desk, the more solid the structure becomes.


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Sitting all day can't be good for you. Even the New York Timessays to beware the

chair: "long periods of sitting reduce the production of enzymes that help burn fat,

slow the metabolism, and lower levels of good cholesterol in the body".

It's 42" tall, the same height as a bar counter top.

The desk caters to a wide range of user heights from 5'2" to 6'2". So go ahead, stand

up for yourself and create the work space you need to think on your feet. The

cardboard standing desk makes it that much easier for you to be dynamic and mobile

while you work and also helps you maintain better posture.
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We make our standing desks with one simple material: corrugated cardboard. We only

use FSC certified c-flute corrugated cardboard made from 70% recycled and 30%

virgin fiber.

It's 100% recyclable.

Here's the production story: corrugated cardboard sheets are first manufactured in

Massachusetts, our production facility in Connecticut die-cuts the corrugated sheets

into furniture, and finally the die-cut parts are assembled and shipped from our

fulfillment center in Connecticut. Not only are our desks American made, but also all

stages of desk production are located within a 100 mile radius in New England.Because we are local, we significantly reduce our carbon footprint.


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Cardboard is both easy to hack and extremely forgiving. The cardboard standing desk

is the perfect medium that allows you to personalize your workspace. Sharpie, paint,

or silk screen the desk surface with your favorite designs or logos. Cut holes for power

cords, monitors, or even that handy business card tray you always wanted. The

cardboard standing desk is an easy way for you to express yourself through your

furniture. We can't wait to customize ours with speakers!

US shipping included in all prices


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a customized wheel chair tray for Hannah

I'm Zachary Rotholz and I fell in love with cardboard in 2010 when I worked as a

summer intern at the Adaptive Design Association in New York. At Adaptive design, I

learned the techniques of cardboard carpentry to create custom furniture for children

with disabilities. I designed cardboard adaptions for children like Hannah to help

create healthier and more ergonomic work and play environments.


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Inspired by cardboard, I decided to research further. For my senior thesis in

Mechanical Engineering at Yale, I designed a cardboard modular furniture system for

college students.

After graduating from Yale in 2011, I completed a fellowship at the Yale Entrepreneurial

Institute. With the support of the Yale University O"ce of New Haven and State A!airs,

I opened a retail store in New Haven, Connecticut. It's called Chairigami.


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At Chairigami, I began by designing and inventing cardboard furniture for both Yale

students and the New Haven community, producing everything from beds to chaise

lounges. We've now expanded to manufacture both o"ce furniture and trade show

booths for a national audience. All of my pieces are hand-made and produced in my

small cardboard carpentry store.

The Chairigami retail store is a wonderful laboratory to create and test new ideas with

clients.


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a standing o!ce designed for a local business in New Haven

One of the very first pieces I was asked to design at Chairigami was a standing desk.

Two years later it is still one of my most popular items for both start-ups and trade

show booths. While the standing desk has been a huge success, my production is

limited and costly because I produce the desks by hand in my retail store.

To make the cardboard standing desk available to all the unsatisfied sitters out there,

we need your help. The production of cardboard standing desks isn't easy. We need

to invest in large, expensive rotatory dies that will punch out our designs from

corrugated cardboard sheets. We also need to purchase excellent quality corrugated

cardboard for both the standing desks and their retail-worthy packaging.


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our manufacturing facility in New England

To ensure that everything runs smoothly, we have spent the last six months developing

excellent relationships with our die-cutting facility and assembly/fulfillment center

located right here in Connecticut.

The most important reason for launching this kickstarter is to allow you to design and

create your own o"ce space. Cardboard is an open source material that is both easy

to hack and forgiving to work with. We think its important to break down the barriers

that prevent people from creating ergonomic and energizing work environments. With

the cardboard standing desk, we hope to bring sustainability, creativity, and

spontaneous collaboration to the workplace of the future.


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We will manufacture a test die and complete a small test production run at the end of

the kickstarter period. Final dies will be ordered immediately after the kickstarter is

successful so we can launch into desk production by the beginning of May. Standing

desk production and packaging production will continue throughout May and until the

middle of June. We will simultaneously package and ship in small batches in July and

August. After the final shipment, there will be an epic celebration dance.

Thanks for your all of your support,

Zachary


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Risks and challenges

We're good friends with cardboard after 3 years of manufacturing cardboard furniture

and running the chairigami retail store. That said, there are always logistical challenges

when scaling up production.

When die-cutting corrugated sheets, it is always a challenge to make the transition

from a computer controlled cutting table to the production of a rotary cutting die. To

ensure accuracy of slot tolerances and folding tolerances we will first produce a test

run with a small prototype die and meticulously evaluate the dies with our die

manufacturer. This way we can ensure that our large dies meet our exact design

specifications. We have had the past experience of die-cutting a custom 2,000 part

stool order and can confidently navigate the manufacturing process.

Another challenge of production is to correctly group parts to create complete

packages. We whittled down the design of the standing desk to be made up of only

four simple parts. Identification labels will be stamped on each part to prevent

assembly confusion. Additionally, we will produce and assemble the product in small

batches in order to closely monitor the manufacturing process.

To make sure everyone receives their product on time, we have been working diligently

with our UPS representatives to e"ciently track and organize all of our Kickstarter

orders.

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