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Tube Toys by Oscar Diaz
These toy vehicles by London designer Oscar Diaz are assembled from their own packaging.
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Each Tube Toy comes with components like stickers and wheels inside a cardboard tube that becomes the body of the car, fire engine, train or tractor, with pre-cut slots for easy assembly.
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Only the paper strip round the outside is discarded and all components are recycled or recyclable.
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Gift company NPW presented the products at New York International Gift Fair earlier this month, alongside temporary tattoo finger puppets by Héctor Serrano.
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Other projects by Diaz on Dezeen include a calendar that uses the capillary action of ink spreading across paper to display the date and pens that record sound on paper then play it back - see all our stories about his work here.
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See more stories about toys here.
Here are some more details from Diaz:
The Tube Toys are a series of vehicles to assemble were the packaging is also a part of the product, reducing considerably the amount of material discarded after buying it, and the extra cost that traditional packaging involves.
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All the parts needed to build each vehicle are contained on a standard cardboard tube, which doubles as the packaging. The tubes have slots and holes to place the wheel axes and other components. A single stripe of paper displaying all the information necessaries for the shop (brand, product name/description and barcode) is the only bit that will be discarded after purchase.
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All the materials used on the product are also recycled and/or recyclable. The cars are easy to assemble and acknowledge the fact that children often enjoy playing with the packaging as much as they do with the actual toys.
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Gift brand NPW presented the 'Tube Toys' at New York International Gift Fair earlier this month.