The Cardboard Standing Desk: Stand Up For Creativity by Chairigami - Kickstarter

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The first standing desk that is aordable, simple, and green.

Great for home oces, growing businesses, and co-working
spaces!
chairigami
New Haven, CT
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thank you video from our founder.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2014
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Miniature Standing Desk. Get a 1/10
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scale standing desk model and pledge

your allegiance to the cardboard
standing desk. Shipping to US
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Estimated delivery: Jul 2014
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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
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Meet the cardboard standing desk. Put simply, a standing desk allows you to work on
52 backers
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
Standing Desk. Get the cardboard
healthier.
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standing desk and stand up for

sustainability, mobility, and cardboard.
42"L x 24" W x 42"H. Shipping to US

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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
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The Small Start-up. Get a cardboard

standing desk furniture set that
We noticed that oce-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 aordable.
supports a creative team of six.

Shipping to US addresses included.
Pledge $1,800 or more
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The Oce. Get your oce furnished
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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.
Funding period
Mar 13 2014 - Apr 12 2014 (30 days)
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.
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The cardboard standing desk is so light, 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 oces 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 Times says 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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The cardboard standing desk comes flat-packed in box measuring only 43"L x 25"W x
4"H. This box is also a perfect way to keep the standing desk for moving or storage.
Because the desk flat-packs into such a small box, we were able to save you a ton of
money on shipping costs especially to our friends in California.
It assembles in less than 5 minutes

There are no fasteners or adhesives and you don't need a PhD in engineering to put it
together. The desk is made of four simple parts: a desk top, two legs, and a support
brace. These pieces fold and then easily slot together to create a simple, minimalist
structure.
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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 Oce of New Haven and State Aairs,
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 oce 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 oce 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 oce 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
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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 eciently track and organize all of our Kickstarter
orders.
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