1) I’ve always wanted to break dance. Break it down to make a dance floor!
2) My new years resolution is to get off my chair more and do things outside! Wait.. if I win the chair, that might be a little difficult.. hmmm..
3) Blogging day and night and sitting on this 4-year old leather chair from office depot has surely caused my slouching to increase over the years. This chair will improve my life a million times over. Or at least, make my back much happier.

1) I would totally build a fabulous fort - or I might donate it to one of my architect friends for model making.

2)I’ve loads of New Year Resolutions of course but the relevant one is to finish tidying and decorating my desk/studio/office area - (I still don’t have a chair!) - and then using it. I also resolve to blog more, paint more, write more, make more things.

3) (Sob Story coming up!) I have an illness called M.E. and Fibromyalgia (muscle pain) - I’m pretty sure the Stealcase Leap would improve my posture and allow me to sit at my desk for longer periods of time without pain - which in turn would allow me to write more, blog more, paint more an actually fulfill some of my wishes instead of being limited by pain. I’ve been looking for a good desk chair I could afford - this one is beyond my wildest dreams - winning it would be amazing!

1. i will make a robot like this http://winxwincollabo.livedoor.biz/archives/50758168.html
2. study English harder. so i need a chair!! also, my cat took my chair while i traveled for 5 days.
3. i do not need to fight a chair with my cat, DJ. she hates me because i use her chair. but it’s supposed to be mine!! it is 23 year old chair…no wonder it hurts my back…

1. Make a fort for my daughter and when she was done maybe some nice custom magazine boxes.
2. In 2009 I resolve to stop slouching while I work.
3. An awesome chair in my home will make working there so much more enjoyable and productive. No more manhandling pillows into a lumpy, slouchy seat on the bed.

1) Burn it to keep me warm in this freezin MN weather
2) Win a contest for once in my life
3) Prevent me from being one of those hunch-backed old men

Humm - I would assuredly turn that huge box into a kitty fort for my two 15 lb pets! I can imagine cute cut out windows and a huge furry paw batting at the shutters! I could probably fit in there too… cozy.

That would pretty much be on par with my new years resolution to be happier too.

Humm, the Steelcase leap chair will make me happier too! My current office chair is an interesting teal corduroy color and seemingly constructed for someone with half the torso length that I have. And how wickedly awesome would it be to know you are sitting on something that sooo much great design and thought has gone into?!

Happy New Year to everyone - may a smile creep into everyday!

1) Fort all the way! Nothing like a place to take cover when the office nerf gun fights break out.

2) Get my back in better shape to carry around a new baby (due in April), which a more ergonomic chair would totally help with ;)

3) If it would help alleviate my lower back pain after a 10 hour day in the office and make me more mobile for my upcoming new born it would be worth its weight in gold!

1. Build a fort with my wife. We’re the biggest kids in the house.
2. Learn a new prohibition era cocktail every month. Build my own custom web app using django.
3. It would help me accomplish my second resolution

1) I’ll use the box to hold my things of the past. And it will allow me to look at the present.
2)Turn into be my own boss.
3)The Steelcase leap will help me get more alert in manage my new own project, The style and the confort is always a good compromise and a step to be sucessfull.

01. I’m having a baby in a couple weeks — this box shall be saved & made into a radical playhouse for her & our dog.
02. My only new years resolution (aside from being a kick ass mommay, is to breastfeed my daughter.
03. I have less than perfect posture — this chair looks like it could kick that into gear — and I can breast feed while sitting oh so comfortably upon it :D

Merci! Happy new year!

1. I would use it to make a sled to go down the stairs with
2. I resolved to not break any bones in 2009
3. I really should stop using my computer from my bed/the couch, I bet that beautiful chair would help my back/laziness, plus I really could use a productivity increase.

1. give it to my niece. She’ll probably turn it into a house. I would have turned it into a fire truck or a pirate ship.
2. Sit up straight while working.
3. It would help me accomplish #2

1. i would definately play in the box with my little girl, my cats & my husband !
2. Stress less. About everything.
3. We don’t have a rocking chair at home & baby no. 2 is coming along, so this would be more than perfect for late night feedings :) & also, the time spent in front of the PC uploading the bajillion pictures of the new baby & the daughter !

1. I’m moving, so I’ll out STUFF in it.
2. My New Year’s resolution is to save up for my wedding in October.
3. I’m a freelance Sound Engineer who spends hours in a surround speaker setup, so I can now be comfortable!

1) I would take the box and make an “idea board” out of it.
2) New Years resolution is to finally get my eating notes out and make my foodie website (as a hobby).
3) The chair would be great for getting my faux office together.

1) We have a new baby on the way, so I think I’d use the box to create an incredible mobile that spans the babies nursery.

2) My New Year’s resolution, lame as it is, is to get back into a habit of regular excercise. Chair spins count, no?

3) It would allow me to stop working where I work solely because they have comfortable chairs, and become a true artiste. :)

1. find the nearest snowy hill, break down box, sit on box, SLED DOWN HILL ON BOX!
2. new year’s resolution - travel more
3. i sit in a chair more than 9 hrs a day. this chair would do wonders for my life.

1. Big box + inquisitive cat = new owner-approved cat playground! Our kitty, Penny Lane, is a total box junkie and with a few strategic modifications to enhance her experience she’d have hours of fun (and just maybe leave our poor pup Molly alone for a little while - the box and its contents would benefit three people in the house!).
2. My resolution is to read more. Lately I’ve read books mainly for pleasure, but I’ve resolved to read two a month that fall into both the human resource/employee management and small business/company management categories. Although, my chiropractor did mention yesterday that my resolution should be using my home traction device more consistently! A Steelcase Leap might please us both…ha ha.
3. A Steelcase Leap would mean I’d get to get rid of the hand-me-down chair from my partner’s sister (I’m actually the third owner and the use shows!). I’d be able to sit at my desk and not lean to the right all day and just maybe my arms would rest comfortably on arm rests *sweet bliss!*, rather than hover in the air or on my desk.

1) Fort … we have to defend ourselves :D
2) Travel a lot (with the chair obviously) … it has wheels right?
3) I stay on the chair very long … a better chair = a better day :)

What a chair!
1. A box like this will have several lives at our house. The kids will be in and out of it until I can’t stand tripping over it in the living room anymore. It may serve a dropcloth function for projects in my daughter’s new ‘classroom’ in the basement. And then, of course, the Baltimore County recycling trucks will take if off to a better place…
2. My resolution is to both read and apply some fo the Abs Diet book I bought… last year. Skimmed some last night, and it look slike I get to eat 6 small meals a day … this one might work.
3. I’m torn beteween bringing the chair to work, where I do most of my office chair sitting, or leaving it at home. Most of my at home sitting is in an easy chair, but this would almost be enough motivation to reclaim the downstairs office from the clutter that has accumulated there.

Thanks for another great contest.

1. this massive box would be re-used as a box once again to help move me and my lovely boyfriend into our yurt!!

2. my new year’s resolutions are as follows: start a compost pile, use less, be more, pay more attention to the things i love and less to the things that just don’t matter

3. i’m a designer so i spent 4 years in college learning about ergonomics. my professors would probably beat me severely with triangles and french curves if they knew just how horrible of a chair i sit in every day at my computer pouring over inspiration, blogs, and market research. the leap chair would change my life in many good ways! i bet it will even make me pretty and more popular too. :)

1. I’d flatten the box and use it to cover the floor for an upcoming painting project.
2. Don’t have much use for resolutions, but I suppose more effort to get exercise would be a logical one.
3. This one’s easy. We need a new office chair because our 15yr old cheap Ikea chair has finally worn out, and my wife needs to use separate back support whenever to do freelance work in our home office.

1. In my quest to streamline and simplify, I’m planning to clean out some closets that have been collecting odds and ends for years, so I would actually fill up the box with stuff to donate, rent a zipcar, and take it all to the Salvation Army and a local woman’s shelter. Then, I’d use industrial-strength scissors to break down the box for recycling.

2. I’m on a general quest to consume less, make my life simpler and more enjoyable. In 2009, I am especially committed to finishing my dissertation.

3. I spend my entire day at my computer, mostly working on the dissertation and preparing my classes—except for when I’m procrastinating by browsing NOTCOT and other wonderfully engrossing sites. Over the past two years, I’ve also spent hours scouring the net for a replacement for the non-ergonomic Staples chair that causes me all sorts of pain and whose non-adjustable armrests don’t allow me to make the most of my ergonomic keyboard. My budget is $150, so I haven’t found anything that looks like it’s well-designed and durable. I’m a big, six-foot tall woman, and the fully adjustable, brilliant, and gorgeous Steelcase chairs I’ve been able to try out in the wealthier offices of my University have left me looking forward to the day I can afford such craftmanship.

1. I’m a high school art teacher, so I would add it to my stash of materials initially, though it will probably become a lamp or an animal sculpture ala James Grashow.

2. I’m trying to create a habit of drawing everyday and blogging those images at onedrawingatatime.blogspot.com

3. Honestly, I would probably give it to my wife who has a much more sensitive back due to a bungee jump when she was 11.

1) The box? Geez, my kitty has been begging for a condo. Pimp that thing out with some carpet and scratchy things. Perfect!

2) Two words: FOOD BLOG

3) I think the Steelcase will save my butt. I’ve just accepted a new job and will be working from home. Right now I’m sitting on a kitchen chair that I bought from a rummage sale for $2. Granted, it has stars and moons painted on it, but owww.

1) I would definitely re purpose the cardboard for a model; I can’t be wasting valuable, recyclable resources.
2) To be healthier and increase my time management. Both school related, because 72-hour-straight final projects honestly don’t do anything for your back or diet (or sanity for that matter).
3) Keeping me productive for longer, staring at my drafting board for hours.

1. Save it for October, when I’ll use it as the body for my old-school, sci-fi robot Halloween costume.

2. Write a novel.

3. I Work from home, and have been doing the laptop-on-the-sofa thing for two years while my back and productivity suffer. Just got a great new desktop, and would love to sit at it in this swanky, sexy, ergo-chair (instead of the wooden kitchen chair I’ve been using — ouch!).

1. I’d remove one side of the box, add a crossbar, and use it as a mini closet to hang/store winter coats in my storage space.
2. New year’s resolution: Write something productive every day. And floss.
3. As a graduate student working on my dissertation, I could definitely benefit from a 17.8% productivity increase! And maybe with this chair, I won’t have the posture of a cocktail shrimp when I finally graduate.

1) Clearly this box will be used as a rocket ship so I can travel to Mars. Once I land on Mars it can be converted into MarsFRT-0001.

2) My new years resolution is to learn as much as I can without having to go back to school. Or perhaps make enough money so I can afford to go back to school. I’m thinking Human Computer Interaction, Art school again (maybe upgrade to a masters), or some fancy mathematics.

3) I don’t think the chair will help my social life, unless I call friends over to look at the chair. But I can see my back thanking me. Ikea chairs don’t cut it for 8 hours in front of the computer.

1. Multistage recycle! First, my two boys would make it into a fort. They would nerf attack the girls. Then the girls would get a shot at it, being given full liberty to decorate it. Afterwards, I could really use a large piece of it to lay down and stain a cabinet on top of. Some pure pieces of cardboard would end up in the gerbil cage. When we had gotten our full use of it, it would be cut up and set by the curb for the recycle folks.

2. To work out every morning with my wife. We’re on day 6 and doing well!

3. I work from home programming databases - and my office chair is really showing it’s age both in appearance and how it treats my back. The Leap sounds heavenly.

1.) I have two little boys of my own and many more that visit throughout the day. The only thing I would do with the box is hand it over to them and then try not to trip over it during the night.

2.) A couple of my resolutions are stop cussing (/sheepish), blog more (a la more comfy chair) and try and make my house less toxic by removing chemicals, plastics and other nasties. Much harder than I thought they’d be.

3.) Currently we use an exercise ball at the computer. Before this, we used a dining room chair, before that a patio chair. I don’t know why we haven’t got a new one. I think mainly it’s because there’s a foot of height difference between my husband and I. We can never decide on a chair. Having someone decide for us would be awesome!!

1 - I’d carve it up to make a giant photo reflector or two (just add tinfoil and spray glue)
2 - My goal is to improve by at least 10x in my work over last year.
3 - This chair would make my life better because a large part of my day is spent sitting around waiting for new NOTCOT posts. I fill in the gaps by working at some kind of ‘day job’. A comfy chair would sure make life a little better for ol’ Kev. yep. ‘twould be a sight better if I had a nice chair.

1. I’m drafting patterns for new dolls, and since I am trying to get myself to use a rotary cutter and save my hands, I just figured out that having pattern pieces made of something more solid than recycled paper grocery bags would be a good idea. So… cardboard pieces, here I come.

2. My New Years resolution is to find ways to save my hands/wrists. It’s not cool that they’ve started cracking and popping every time I flex my fingers, so wrist pads for typing, and a rotary cutter instead of scissors.

3. An ergonomic chair would help put me in the right posture for typing, and hopefully help with that wrist angle thing I’m working on. Hey, maybe I can move fabric cutting up to a table, and sit in a comfy chair while I do that too.

1. cut it into 8x10’s and use a backs for photographs.
2. be healthier
3. will help my poor back from sitting in crappy chairs at work…

1° : I’ll keep it to make my contribution to the box doodle project (http://www.neu-e.de/index.html)
2° : Drink more tea and less coffee !
3° : This chair may solve my backache ! I discussed last month with steelcase sustainable development initiative manager in France (André Malsch), and he told me it could be good for that !!!

1. The massive box would be great as a food pantry for those in need.
2. Our new years reveloution is to eat healthier and regular meals.
3. The steelcase leap would actually be for my hudsband, he has a really bad back so we are hoping this would help.

1. I would draw pictures all over it and staple gun it to somebody’s fence.
2. My new years resolution was to stop smoking and I haven’t had a cigarette since!
3. I would use it at my desk to help me start a freelance graphic/ identity design career. I just moved across the country and I don’t have a chair!!

1. break it down for art projects
2. to work on more non-work-related art projects
3. spruce up my desk, because the hand me down chair i have been using is pretty heinous (and uncomfortable)

1. Well. Perhaps I would either use the box as furniture, such as a little table by my door to put random stuff on. or maybe use it to store artwork.
2. My new years resolution is to grow a beard.
3. This chair will help my life because it will give me a reason to set up all my computer stuff on my desk and use it there, rather than having it on the night table by my bed.

1. Box. I’d recycle it into a sled. For about 2 Runs.
2. Resolution: http://plentywant.blogspot.com/. Essentially, in an effort to live simpler, I’m only having 99 beers this year.
3. Chair. Would let me be more productive in my work, by letting me sit still for a minute and actually finish something.

Then I can go sledding and then have a beer. And blog about it.

1) It will become a lemonade stand for my little cousins
2) 1024 × 768
3) I will no longer suffer the pains from the office’s Herman Miller knock-off chairs. Most corporate workers will know what I mean. It’s a universal truth.

1. make a 1/4 replica of the steelcase chair
2. be more naked to show off my sharpie tattoos
3. this chair will help me become more sexy and build my cartoon empire (sexy first, then empire)

1) I would use the box to teach others to paint and draw on a larger scale.
2) My New Years Resolution is to sketch and take more photos.
3) The chair would increase my productivity.

1. I would keep the box, as I’ll be moving soon.
2. New Year’s Resolution would be to work smarter, not harder.
3. It would help w/ my current desk situation. My chair (inherited at this firm), has food stains of all types on it.

1.)I would take the box and use it to transmogrify myself into an elephant…or maybe I’ll convert it into a time machine.

2.)My biggest New Year’s Resolution for 2009 would be to get off of my bum to visit Amsterdam for my 40th birthday and take in some design culture by visiting the Van Gogh museum and reflecting on life at Anne Frank’s house.

3.)The Steelcase Leap will help my life because if I do win this awesome chair, I’m going to need somewhere to sit lest I faint or have to sit on our dinner table chair which is now my office chair without armrests. Do you know how hard it is to surf the internet holding your elbows up!?! Help me Leap into Ergonomic heaven ^_^

Im a computer science major with massive back pain….
I would use the box as storage, if it is big enough i would use it as my home for the next few weeks….

1) Make a mechanical looking mascot for my office

2) Work out at the gym more often and give more freely/often

3) It will make my full-time job seem THAT much better as my body feels better from it’s great supportive structure (like sitting on a cloud at work)

1. the box would become storage for my worn out, and disappointingly uncomfortable aeron chair.
2. my goal in 2009 is to spend more time in front of my computer making art, and less reading celebrity news blogs.
3. spending a good 15 hours a day in front of the computer over the past 10 years is wreaking havok on my body. i would love to spend my days sitting tall and comfortable, instead of slouching and being all bent out of shape. The Steelcase Leap is my only hope

1) this box will probably have multiple lives in my hands. first as maybe a dog tunnel/catcher, because my dog loves that. but then maybe as a dance floor/backer for airbrushing (they go hand in hand in my opinion)
2) along with the whole obligatory be healthier, i’m shooting for a’s in all my classes this quarter.
3) although this chair probably won’t fit in my dorm room (i don’t know though i’ve never seen one in person), i would keep it at my house where my dad will probably steal it and when i come home i’d steal it back to make late night creative bursts more comfortable.

1. Regift the chair and give it to my sister
2. My new year’s resolution - is to enjoy the year (and have more “me” time)
3. My sister has a bad back from an old injury so a ergonomic desk chair will definitely improve her comfort.

1. I’d make a cardboard boombox out of it and use the remainder for a makeshift dance floor so I can have my 80’s / early 90’s flashback complete with matching attire.

2. I really don’t make New Year Resolution’s. The only thing I really would love to do is finally get my artroom in order complete with photos on the wall, simplify my schedule, and make more time to be more crafty.

3. Well if I decide to craft more, this will help in making me comfortable and possibly being the reason I spend so much time being creative. Awesome chair = more creativity.

1.) Use it to get started on my robot costume for Halloween

2.) My resolution is to spend way more time in my art studio than last year (planning on putting in 10-20 hrs/week)

3.) This would totally get me to spend more time in my studio, which would lead to incredibly productive work sessions which would lead to great art being created which would lead to FAME and FORTUNE, thus providing a better life for me an my family.
I’m currently rocking an old ass drafting chair that destroys my back from hunching over. My other option is an old crappy school desk chair that I’m guessing is from the early fifties. 10 minutes on that thing and my ass is numb.

1) I’d unfold the box and use it as a canvas for delightful paintings of inky octopuses.

2) New Years Resolution is NO MORE PROCRASTINATIONS! (apparently if I’m on this site I’m off to a bad start)

3) The SteelCase Leap would help my life in the following ways:
- I’m certain my current desk chair is made of melted down WWII tanks. It’s heavy, uncomfortable and worst of all, it’s all I can afford.
- We would cross the county in a van, solving mysteries and saving lives.

Well, humor will take a back seat to need for me:

1) Honestly, that box will become a moving box. After moving four times in four and a half years, I’m about to make it five for five and need all the boxes I can get.

2) My New Year’s Resolution for 2009? Not to move again for at least two years! (Yes, I realize it may not be possible to ensure compliance with said resolution in the confines of one year, but dammit, I don’t want to move anymore!)

3) Why do I deserve it? Who doesn’t deserve a great chair, but as to me, specifically, I work in a windowless, 9x12 ft. office that I share with another person, doing a job I am overqualified and under-enthused for, sitting on my bum for nine hours a day trying not to get carpal tunnel by switching mousing hands every 45 minutes—a chair is the least I deserve. ;-)

1.) I would most definitely use it to make my next halloween costume (sorry, I would love to post a pic of this), but last year I made a tin-man costume entirely out of cardboard including the body, legs, arms, even the ax. But the best part was the cardboard briefs that I constructed… .yes, I made cardboard underwear. Spray painted everything metallic silver and WHAMMO - tin man costume for nothing. It was definitely my crowing Halloween achievement.

2.) Stop slouching at work - if only I had a decent work chair to help with my posture … . .

3.) This is a sad story actually, but hopefully will help me win this chair to help with my problem:
For the past 5 years I have been suffering from extreme neck discomfort beginning from the time I wake up. It’s grown worse throughout the years, but the worst part is that no doctors can figure out the problem. I’ve been to 7 different “specialists” and have tried the below procedures/solutions:

1. Physical Therapy
2. Trigger Point Injections
3. Facet Injections
4. Epidural Steroid injections (dang that’s a lot of needles now that put it on paper!)
5. Countless drugs (anti-inflamitories, muscle relaxers, pain relievers, etc.)
6. PNT (crazy thin electrode needles stuck in my muscles)
7. Rhysotomy (caulderizing of the nerve endings around the spine - fun, huh?)
8. Chiropractic (2 years running - I don’t think it’s doing much)
9. Botox (not the self-indulgent, vain kind …)

Nothing’s worked. I’ve been trying to find a good chair and the Leap chair is on the top of my list, but I just can’t afford it new. If I win, I will also contribute to the economy by purchasing a head rest as well so that I can rest my neck at work. This could improve the afternoons and evenings tremendously by relieving some of the discomfort in my neck … .

1. I’d open both ends, lie it sideways and make a tank out of it (“climb” one wall of the box so that it rolls with you inside).

2. Save the world.

3. I need a chair I can sit in that doesn’t suck.

1. Boxes should be made out of materials that can either be eaten or planted. If none of those are possible with this box, i’d get a bunch of friends together some markers, and beer, create some handsome motif on the box, put some dirt in it and plant a tree.

2. For the new year i would like to rely less on Facebook for social interaction.

3. I’m not sure if this chair will help me, i’ll hafta get back to you after i’ve used it for a while.

1. oh a fort, for sure.
2. no resolutions, wah!
3. it would increase my productivity since I have to use a metal folding chair at my desk :(

1) Turn it to a work of art or save it for when I move
2) Loose 10 pounds for our wedding @ Unity Temple in May!
3) I don’t know how it will improve my life, I need one to tell you how it does!

1) The box: to pack up my troubles.
2) Resolution: avoid accumulating more troubles.
3) How will the Steelcase Leap improve your life?: trouble-free seating!

1) I would create a puppet theater and appoint myself head puppeteer.
2) My new years resolution is to bake something delicious every week and not feel bad about eating it.
3) The Steelcase Leap will help my life by encouraging me to keep up my blog while not injuring my legs (by laying down on the couch whilst blogging). Also I have bad posture and I’ve been working hard to try to fix it…again, not easy on the couch.

May Canadians enter?

Just in case:

1) My friend’s little boy would use it as a fort first, and then it would probably be used as mulch in the garden (depending on the type of cardboard).

2) My resolution is to get out and participate in my community more rather than staying at home for most of my spare time.

3) It would make me more comfortable both at the computer and at my desk when I’m working on other projects.

1. Handy storage for the pile of boxes I amassed over the holidays.

2. I resolve to eat more chocolate. Wish me luck!

3. A new Leap chair from Steelcase will increase my productivity 17.8%, and so enable me to work 28 hrs 30 min per day. CHA-CHING!

Well now… The box will serve as an excellent kitty playground — three cats plus big box and packing materials… endless fun.

I’ve resolved to make my home office less of a pit: better organization and furniture… I’ll get organized if I win a new chair!

And I work out of the house. If I get that office cleaned-up AND have a spiffy, nice looking chair, then I can have my clients visit me instead of always schlepping across town to see them: That will improve my life.

Cheers,
-steve

1. Make indoor shutters for my window. It gets hot in the pimp pad sometimes, need sun block!
2. My New Year’s resolution this year is to get a job, get a life, and get going to far away places.
3. I would give this chair to my Mom — she is at a desk all day and pours over plans and docs and stuff — she needs a healthier way to sit & work!

1. Put my old computer chair in it and give it to someone else.
2. Be bluntly honest with everyone.
3. I sit in front of a computer all day at work, then I come home and do it some more. oooooh what an awesomee schedule.

1. Build a cubicle fort. Defend at all costs.
2. Bring contagious positivity and productivity to life and the workplace.
3. Give it to my co-worker whose current chair is way past its expiration date.

1. I would probably try to sound proof my recording studio with it or perhaps make cardboard person to stand in my parking spot when I am not around.
2. My new years revolution is to spend more time making music and less time talking about making music.
3. I recently moved back to SF and am making a home studio to work out of.
I am currently sitting on a little wooden stool that has not only seen better days, but is intended to probably reach things off high shelves.

1) A fort with the kids, definitely. Port and starboard cannon attachments and a papercraft pirate crew to go with it.

2) I’ve stopped keeping resolutions ever since I realized that I really hate the gym. I prefer to keep a “new outlook on life,” in which case it’s, “take nothing for granted.”

3) I’m working on becoming a freelance web developer, and this chair would definitely help me work longer hours without totally killing my back.

1. First, I’d use the box as part of a mockup for built-ins we need for storage and office space. We’re having a tough time agreeing on how the new unit should be composed, so we agreed to build full-size mockups out of corrugated board. When we’re done with that, we’ll recycle the corrugated board.

2. I really do have to lose 55 lbs, as I am now on the wardrobe diet (I’m getting too fat for my clothes, and refuse to buy bigger sizes).

3. The back of my office chair is shot, so I have to sit straight up on the edge of the chair, or slouch. The new chair would enable me to sit properly, and for longer periods, and make fewer visits to the chiropractor (in fact, I’m going today).

1) I would either a) make it into a giant pop-up sculpture, or b) turn it into the world’s largest pinhole camera.

2) For 2009, I’ve resolved to return to being bold! I used to take a more fearless and badass approach to the world, but I’ve become something of a shrinking violet over the past couple years. Time to reclaim boldness! Talk to that guy at the gym! Write that book proposal! Make more art (see #1)!

3) As a freelance writer and editor, I sit in front of a monitor alllll day long, and the Steelcase Leap would keep me from slouching, so I’d have more zip in my spine to go big and be bold (see #2).

1. I am pretty boring, I would just to it to collect recyclables until its full and then take it to a recycling center.

2. My new years resolution is to play more board and card games with my wife. She loves that stuff.

3. If I won I would give it to my wife. She works for the federal government and her chair at work is a beat up hand me down that isn’t very comfortable at all. This would make her very happy.

1. Make a sweet ball pit for the kiddies
2. Resolution is to have better posture
3. Um, the kids broke my office chair. Using a dining room chair now

1. paint the outside and then use it to store my art supplies!
2. new year’s resolution for 2009- don’t procrastinate + keep drawing, crafting & experimenting to fulfil my dream.
3. my back would be in heaven. i badly need a proper chair for my desk, for sitting all day on a chair without a back is serious shit. plus having a proper chair would help me work better yes? ;)

1) Transform the box into a giant butterfly mobil for my daughter’s room and cut the remining scraps into food shapes and paint for her toy kitchen
2) Join a jazz band
3) A Steelcase Leap would help my life by making my late night work feel like early afternoon with a chair that adjusts to me and definitely would help make my office look like a grown up office.

1. Use the box to make a Transmogrifier like in Calvin and Hobbes.
2. New Years resolution, to transmogrify myself into a dinosaur, probably a T-Rex
3. T-Rex need comfy chairs, duh.

1. I would most definitely build a spaceship. An awesome spaceship I would attempt to sleep in at least one night.
2. Stepping out of my boat or box or whatever it is that makes me shy in particular situations.
3. I slipped a disc in my back during my college soccer alumni game over a year ago and I’m still feeling the pain. Since I’m a graphic designer I’m sitting all day and I know this chair would make spinning and thinking so much more comfortable.

1. I would build my own private break room in the back of the office.

2. To be happier/healthier.

3. My boss has a Herman Miller Aeron Chair. I need to let him know he can’t use it to push me around anymore. Plus my back is the worst.

1) Well, personally, I would build a fort, but for me, not the kids. In reality, my daughter would demand a puppet theater and make me perform at least two shows a day.

2) To live life to the fullest. We don’t know how much time we have and I want to stop thinking of my dreams in life as something that happens in the future. I want to start living them now. I don’t mean flying off to Italy whenever I feel like it (but damn, that would be awesome), but to live my current life as best I can. Doing more of what I love and be there for the ones I love. So far, it’s going pretty well.

3) The Steelcase Leep would save my back and finally let me destroy the hand-me-down chair that has been torturing my back. I’ve researched chairs and this is the one I want! I’ve looked at the other chair manufactures (Humanscale, Herman Miller, etc.) and they have good chairs, but this one rocks. I know how much research Steelcase has put into this chair. I want a 17.8% increase in productivity!

Nearly every year near Christmas, my back goes out and I blame my crappy chair that’s falling apart. Last year, I was stuck on the threshold to my parents house with my back locked up. I was laying on my back for 3 days in a row because I couldn’t walk. I’m hunched over a computer all day and my posture is really poor. I know this chair can help my health. I’ve been trying to save the money for it, but I haven’t had much luck. Please, please, please…

I would perform a “Twister”… you know, the game with coloured circles for feet and hands.

1. I would mash it up with some water and make it into an end table.
2. I do not do resolutions because I just see people setting themselves up to fail and that is not the way to happiness.
3. This chair would help my life because it would provide a good seat for the tank that I am building with which to invade the nation of babies. If not this, then it will be the sat from a Ford Escort which will not support me ergonomically.

A. Make a new office chair for my cocker spaniel, Riley, so he could sit next to my new office chair.
B. One page of the new novel every day.
C. Help me win this year’s office chair race.

1. It will replace my small box/desk.

2. To stop sitting on the floor.

3. An elevated perspective.

1. use the box to construct an equally ergonomic, confortable, and functional desk/ workspace prototype.

2. GEt back in school, work towards a design degree, and express my creative impulses.

3. If I take it to work, it would make my boring data mamagement job more comfortable and make me the envy of the floor.
If I use it at home, it would allow me to get lost in pouring out my creatve energies into my work without having to adjust as its comfort level increases with time.

1—Cut a few holes in it and spray it with catnip spray for a very happy kitty fort.
2—Keep my house cleaner … not off to a good start as yet.
3—I’ve got a cheap plastic folding chair at my computer desk at home, which makes it difficult to work for more than 30 minutes at a time without my butt screaming in agony. This chair would give me one less excuse to avoid getting some writing done on my dissertation.

With this massive box, I would declutter; Fill with stuff of mine that I no longer want, and donate it to some charity (usually Salvation Army). Then I would take it to my local recycling place.

One of my new years resolutions is to replace the creaky computer chair that I’m sure is going to fall apart one day when I roll back from my desk.

This chair looks like it’d improve my life by making my hours at the desk much more comfortable, not to mention beautiful. Well I’d still be the same attractiveness, but at least my chair would be more beautiful. Or maybe the chair makes me more beautiful too? I can see that.

1. Give it to a homeless for shelter.
2. To travel across seas for the first time in my life.
3. Get rid of my back pain by replacing my IKEA chair.

(1) I would use a wooden stick with a split at the top to raise one of the boxes edges off the ground. A length of rope would then be tied to the stick. The ropes end would be concealed behind a wall or other form of elevation that would hide a crouching body. Under the box some form of tempting bait, a carrot perhaps, would be placed. Having accomplished this I would settle in and wait…

(2) My new years resolution is to catch more varmints.

(3) The Steelcase Leap would help me sit. I would grasp it’s ample arm rests and use them to guide my body down to it’s waiting cushion. Having achieved this I would lean arching my back slightly and opening my shoulders in order to achieve optimal support.

1) I would use the box like Snake from Metal Gear Solid and sneak around in it from place to place.
2) My New Years Resolution was to spend less money and eat more vegetables.
3) As a medical student I have to sit at my desk a lot studying for various exams and to help patients. I think that a chair like this will help me sit comfotably for longer, benefiting both me and my patients (present and future).

1) Put a LID/ceiling on my cubicle! I don’t like the bright lights above =)
2) To pay off all of my debt (really, it’s not too much).
3) If you saw the chair I was sitting in, you’d understand. A new chair would certainly help me to be nicer to my customers and coworkers. I am known for NEVER leaving my cubicle, so I do sit a lot.

1) I would keep the box as is. I seem to have a problem where I must keep all the boxes from my purchases. So in this case, I would use the Steelcase box to store all my other boxes. OCD much?

I already have a nostalgic cardboard dance floor somewhere at my parents house from my b-boy daze :P

2) My 2009 new years resolution is to move to Hong Kong and travel Asia for 5 years with my sweety. Toronto will always be home, but I want to see the world.

3) I work from home as a freelance designer/developer. All nighters are the norm. If, when rather, I leave for Asia, I will leave the marvel of engineering with my dear mother. She could definitely put it to good use until I get back.

Happy 2009 Everyone!

1. I’d make a desk. Get the uber hifi/lofi dichotomy between the chair and it.

2. Write a letter (a REAL letter) every week.

3. The leap would go to my Mom who needs a good tush cushion! She’s getting older and I want her to have the best ergonomic furniture available.

1) I would use it to put all my “to donate” clothes in…currently they’re all over my floor and I don’t have a good way to put them together to take to Salvation Army.
2)My New Year’s Resolution is to get my first post-graduate job before the end of 2009 (I graduate in May)
3)This Leap chair will allow me to at last sit up straight and stop aching!

1) I’ll take the cardboard and make it into another chair for my coworkers to sit on while they admire the Steelcase Leap and suppress their jealousy.

2) Stop drinkningidangaiodsg so much cooffeeee!@#$!@$!@$!!@

3) Finally having a real chair to sit on and do work will make me less tempted to do work from my bed, where i just start to get sleepy and never seem to finish anything that i

1. Make a second less comfortable chair for a jealous friend.

2. Work hard, Study harder.

3. Not get a cramp from using an old chair that is more than a little worse for wear.

1) My cat Lola would claim it as his own and sit proudly in and on it day in and day out.
2) I’m going to floss more, I’m not going for everyday, I’m shooting low and hoping for a few days a week.
3) The chair would make me hurt less. I work for the state and I sit at my computer all day. The government buys the cheapest chairs possible and so my poor mid-20s back hurts way more than it should.

01. I would cut the box down & build another chair, modeling it after my Stepmother’s creation. (As seen here: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/100/283959839_5318e89e02_o.jpg)
02. My resolution this year is to go on as many adventures as possible.
03. I currently use an IKEA fold out chair as my chair support, and being a full-time student, working on multiple projects on the computer can get quite uncomfortable.

1. Create a side table using all the packaging
2. To become credit independent, live within my means
3 I will use the chair everyday at work to facilitate the beginings of great design. I am a Furniture Designer

1) Boxes of this size do not have just one use. So even if I turn it into a pirate ship, my cat will surely have his own ideas about how it will be used. Personally, I wouldn’t mind turning it into a tiny game room that holds a bean bag chair and a Nintendo DS.

2) I don’t make resolutions, but I pick yearly keywords - this year’s word is “Passion”. Of a life-altering sort, not a daytime soap opera sort.

3) Good chairs are a big investment for a small business office, so my partner and I are still sitting on the $50 Office Depot chairs we bought in ‘01. Even tho I’m too short for my legs to touch the ground when I’m sitting on mine. So, the Steelcase Leap would not only be a massive improvement in comfort and productivity, but it would reduce the amount of seating-related crap I have around my desk in order to make my current chair functional (lumbar pillow, foot stool, cushion, stilts, scaffolding).

1) The box would become my cabin and when attached to my mighty ball00n (still lookin on craigslist for that one) would lift me up…UP and AWAY !!!
until i crashed into the neighbor’s yard.
2) stop eating so much candy so i can fix my chompers….and eat MORE candy !
3) i could FINALLY sit comfortably again !! with a crappy metal spine..comfort becomes a myth . hMmMm….

1. Build a fort.

2. I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. If I’m actually going to do something, I don’t need a special day to make me do it.

3. This chair will replace my aging desk chair that is held together with gorilla tape and rope.

1) I’d turn it into a guest cottage in the backyard.
2) To finally kick my business into full gear and figure out what the hell I’m doing with my life.
3) I sit on a keg. Seriously. I have a bad back that gets killed by most folding or desk chairs. I found an old, old keg in the barn that was small enough to slide under my desk. So I created a padded top for it. It works but I’d really love something with support.

1.I would use it to complete the cardboard chair I’m working on for my grad school portfolio. They’ve stopped giving me leftovers at the art supply store down the street!

2.Get myself into graduate school, so I can get an MAT and teach design and art. While I’ve enjoyed my time as a designer, I’m ready for a new chelleng. Woo!

3. I work my butt off and it would be nice to have something comfy to put my butt ON while I am doing so!

1. I´m studying product design and in March I take part of one Workshop in Italy, where 52 student from 10 countrys will build a means of transport out of CARDBOARD with which to participate in the downhill race on the ski slopes. But before workshop I and 3 other students from my university must practice designing and building a cardboard vehicle and that for I must gather A LOT of CARDBOARD. This MASSIVE BOX is just perfect for my design project!

2. To be more helpful to others, beacause I will never know, when I self need some help. We should try do solve problems, not just turn a blind eye and walk by. Maybe I&you can help.

3. I’m sure that STEELCASE LEAP is very comfortable and healthful, and that’s just what in need! I must work a lot at my desk with many different projects and schoolworks, which take hours and are exhausting. But STEELCASE LEAP will increase my productivity and after sitting lots of hours in Steelcase Leap I will definitely feel much healthier, and got positive energy.

1) I would create a huge recycling bin.
2) New Years Resolution: continue to have grace for people and be kind
3) I would give it to my hard working wife who is a 5th grade teacher. Her current chair is less to be desired and kills her back.

1) I would use it to package up my old chair and donate it to charity
2) My new year’s resolution is to sit up properly and fix this stupid tendinitis in my wrist once and for all.
3) Steelcase could help me achieve my dream of having a pain-free work day!

1.
I would turn the box into a pinhole camera and then take photos of the Steelcase Leap in unusual landscape surroundings.

- cut it up and use to back little pieces of art i have in a pile
- sign a treaty with my alarm clock
- posture posture posture!

1.I would build a castle for my nephews next birthday.
2. I will ride my bike more often.
3. I currently sit on a very uncomfortable wooden chair. The new Steelcase Leap chair would make working long hours way more enjoyable.

I’ll be honest, I’ve entered a lot of these NOTCOT giveaways and really just want to win one, this one actually. But hey, it’s all in Lady Luck’s hands now. Bon chance me.

1. I would build a rocketship.

2. My New Year’s Resolution is to drive happier. I have a 45 minute commute alongside a lot of crazy drivers. Life’s too short to spend almost 2 hours a day wanting to give every single person the finger.

3. I think I spend almost 16 hours a day sitting down, between being a graphic designer at work, commuting to and from work, and then sitting at home doing more graphic design to better my portfolio and personal opportunities. (Can I change my Resolution to stand up more?) I feel like my job and life traps me in chairs, and I’ve been wondering for a while what a nice chair might do to help me.

1. I will probably be moving soon, so it would make an excellent moving box.
2. To actually finish my strategy game.
3. Since I spend nearly all of my time sitting in some computer chair or another, I suspect it will drastically improve my butt’s quality of life.

put the most annoying coworker in it, and ship it off across the country. That + the new chair would save me on $$$ on Advil and create a less stressful office.

1. I am a poor architecture student, so I would recycle the box by using it for model building materials.

2. My new years resolution is to learn and educate myself more about all aspects of life and design to nurture my growth as an architect in design.

3 As an architecture student, we spend many nights in studio with little sleep while sitting in very uncomfortable metal stools. With the Steelcase Leap chair, not only will I enjoy and be inspired by the amazing design aspects of the chair, both is function and aesthetics, it will make those many all nighters in the studio more enjoyable by giving my comfort while i design.

1) There’s a good chance that I would slowly eat it over a period of days and weeks.

2) I resolve to eat more corrugated cardboard.

3) The process of digesting corrugated cardboard is notoriously hard on one’s back. I’m absolutely sure that the Steelcase Leap could relieve my suffering.

1. build a fort with the kids. wait, I don’t have kids: I mean - build a fort for ME!!!

2. I don’t do new years resolutions. BUT, if I did do them, it’d be to make the most out of the food scene in London, Ontario (where I’m currently residing.)

3. Imagine cafeteria chairs from the 80’s, desks at the wrong height, and non temperature controlled rooms. That’s every day at the office for me - armed with two phone books to somewhat better the chair height to the desk (leaving a very numb bum 24 minutes into work) and a ceramic heater. The Stealcase Leap will be a LIFESAVER. Utterly and truly.

1) I would use the box to build a reduced scale model of the Steelecase Leap chair. I would then offer the cardboard sculpture to art galleries around the world for display to help market this fabulously designed chair.

2) My resolution for 2009 is to finish my business planning and launch my design business to the next level.

3) As a freelance designer, I spend many hours a day sitting in front of a monitor, at my desk hammering out concept sketches, or leaning back while chatting with clients and vendors over the phone. The Steelecase Leap is such a beautifully designed chair not only from an inspiring aesthetic perspective, but from a functional point-of-view as well. It really is a well thought out and successful design. I would proudly display this chair as if it were an art piece. With the reduction of physical stress caused by my present chair, I suspect my ability to create and solve problems, would increase drastically. I would also become a star member of my bowling team due to less back pain and stress.

1) I would use the box to create an addition to the local homless guys hovel.

2) My resolution is to do all the things you would need a resolution for, without making them resolutions, therefore my resolution would be to not resolute anything, and just do more/less of anyone thing.

3)The leap would help my life by straightening out my hunchback, thus making me less frightening to children.

1) The box would totally become the cats new house. I could mount it on the ceiling, the cat will manage to find it’s way up there somehow.
2) Lose 20lbs and become a gazillionaire. One of those might actually be possible….
3) After being hit my a car while riding my bike, my back has never recovered. This chair would most certain help ease the pain that I feel :(

1. I would turn the box into a table for my steelcase chair
2. My new years resolution for 2009 is to have something comfortable to sit on when I work
3. Most of my work revolves around sitting for hours on end, so having something as comfortable as a steelcase would help

1. The box would be used to fabricate a tack box for my wife’s saddle and tack.

2. Rework my portfolio for grad school.

3. My current seating arrangement pinches nerves in my back causing pain, especially when I sneeze.

1) I will probably break down the box and use the pieces as canvases for painting (poorly.)

2) I want to get into a regular schedule of meditation.

3) My current crappy Ikea chair with couch pillow is an embarrassment to both my ass and my apartment. Something so luxurious would not only solve both of these problems but also inspire me to spent more time writing, blogging and creating at my desk!

1) I would use the box as a home office!! (Perfect for my laptop).
2) My resolution is to become a more centered and healthy individual. What better way to start then a beautiful comfortable office chair?
3) I spend a lot of time in front of the computer at work. This chair will hopefully prevent my spine from looking like this ?.

1) Cardboard = Blank Canvas in my world. Either that or throw it on the pile for future cardboard furniture projects

2) Cut down on (or streamline) my many vices. Bacon coffee anyone?

3) My chair doesn’t roll anymore and we all know how important office chair races are!

1. I have a basement FULL of cans and bottles. I’m not prepared to pull 80 bags out of the basement to the depot, so maybe I could just use ONE big ol’ box instead!
2. I resolve to put more passion in my photography.
3. I just found out my wife is PREGNANT!! She has a bad back, and bad posture, so this chair would help her out tremendously!

1) First it would help my boyfriend and I move into our new place in a couple months, then it would be a fort, then an impromptu drop cloth/testing area for projects, then it would probably get recycled once more to be used in various projects.
2) To create more of my own things. To finish projects that I start. To sit up straight while accomplishing the former two.
3) The Steelcase Leap will finally give me a legitimate excuse to finish my faker office space and stop using it as a catchall for everything else. I could actually use it!

1. No doubt, build a fort. The kids love box forts. Who doesn’t?
2. My resolution is not to have a resolution…so far, so good.
3. I hope it would relieve the soreness in my bum from the cruddy old chair I have now.

1. I have a couple of toddlers in my life, we will make a spaceship out of the box. These things only last so long, it will eventually be worn thin, have jelly stains on it and a hole in the side from the cat chewing on it, only to ultimately be recycled.

2. To make more art (I will try my best to not get paint on this chair).

3. I am a slave to AutoCAD, this will tremedously help my posture.

great idea with the three questions !
1. I’d build an amazing fort for my cats :)
2. to live up to my potential and to be as nice to myself as i am to others
3. my cats will be happy, because of the fort i built and my back will be happy because of improved seating. I am still a student - i could never get a chair like that !

1) I put it to you the chief executive of steel case and not cot a simply impassable design proposal. I would use it to create a rocket ship with cardboard for fuel and cardboard airtight doors. The rocket will travel to proxima centauri where it will be recycled to create a cardboard colony on our solar systems nearest neighbouring star. We will then send back radiated material on cardboard cable car using spiderswebs to create the suspension system.

2) Stop taking drugs…
… so far no luck

3) It will become the command chair in my cardboard enterprise that will soon dominate intergalatic travel market. Virgin Galactic won’t know what hit them :)….

unless they happen to read this blog :(.

1)I’m moving from Chicago to LA for a new job in July…you could put a lot of stuff in to a box that big. (then I’d build a fort…to sleep in when my girlfriend puts me in the dog house.)

2)learn the value of a dollar.

3)Really, I’m just in it for the big box…

1. I’ll give the box the homeless guy who sleeps in front of the church on my street. I know that sounds terrible, but if the box really is that big he will probably want it.
2. My 2009 resolution is to give more to charity.
3. The Leap chair will vastly improve my life because my back already hurts today and its only 1:30!

1) I will turn my box into a 3d penguin sculpture for my apartment hallway.

2) A resolution of mine is to plant more flowers.

3) I have a grumpy college teacher that always complains about the office chairs. I will actually give this chair to him, and it’ll make my life better because he’ll have one less thing to complain about.

1) The box would be much loved by our two kids. It’d likely first be a club house (no girls allowed) and ultimately morph into a space ship of some sort. It’s likely be in our basement for several months before we finally convince them that it’s time to part with it as we need the room. At that point, it’d be moved to the back yard where it’d live on as a fort until the first big rain. And then it’d be put to rest on the curb for recycling pick-up.

2) In our new basement remodel…a) finish the home office b) finish the excercise room

3) The Steelcase Leap would allow me to finish our home office without having to have it be 100% IKEA. I love Ikea, but one can only take so much. I’d rather replace our dumspster-dived chair with a wonderful and economical Leap over an IKEA chair (as mice as they may be for the price). It’s also orange, so much more aesthetically pleasing. And, finally, I’d have a MUCH better back.

1) I would add wheels for a home made soap box race car!!!! FUN TIMES AHEAD
2) My resolution is to get out of debt and to do more humanitarian aid work
3) It would give my small home office meaning again and finally allow me to retire the POS chair I’ve had forever that started as a hand me down in the 70’s.

The box would become a metaphor for my creative base, with the chair being the transformation from old to new.

In a performance-like art piece, I would demonstrate the idea by taking the chair out of the big box, assembling the pieces to form a functioning art piece, then, spin myself in circles to stimulate the creative process. Only after this process, I would comfortably make art for the rest of the chair’s lifetime.

Then, I’d probably recycle the box or throw my dirty clothes in it.

1. I would use the box to pack my belongings and ship it home (Indonesia) for good. Why? See #2.
2. Start a company before August 2009 and make it profitable within 3 months.
3. A good chair will help me concentrate to create beautiful & functional products.

1. I would probably take the box back to my gallery and reuse it to ship art orders wherever they may be. Big boxes are hard to come by and I’ll all about reusing things!!

2. One of my new years resolutions is to spend more time in front of the computer expressing myself rather than letting it express me. Less time on youtube and hulu and more time writing, designing and coding things!

3. The current chair I’m using has a broken bar support so I’m constantly balancing just to maintain it.

1. Paint the box with Maya hieroglyphs and designs so I’ll have my very own Maya stela.
2. Get more sleep.
3. I’ll be able to more comfortably spend many hours researching and writing the monthly newsletter of the Pre-Columbian Society.

1. I would cut up the box to create smaller canvases for my artwork and also create the frames for the artwork to decorate my office.

2. I have too many resolutions, but the one that is probably most relevant here is to make both my home and work offices more comfortable and inviting.

3. I suffer from tendinitis and this chair will help me to get through many nights of hand and computer drafting.

ooo! I like!!

1> Fill it with *sighs* of content, seal tightly, and mail back to Steelcase to show my gratitude.

2> Resolution: More Sitting — Less Standing!

3> Well, what better way to weather a BAD economy than through GOOD ergonomy!

1) Give it to a friend who plans to move in the near future.
2) Have a smaller carbon footprint by driving less, buying more recycled items, unplugging more, and turning off frequently. It’s all about options.
3) My boyfriend of the last three years, who is now my fiance, will be moving from Vancouver to LA to live with me. He works from home, has a less than perfect back, and will be sacrificing his precious Aeron for our future happiness. This chair would be perfect for his new home office.

With rent as it is in NYC, if the box is good enough for a Steelcase Leap, it is good enough for me. I will happily move in to my new and roomier apartment.

My New Year’s Resolution is to make money (and write less metaphysics (seriously)).

The Steelcase Leap will enhance my life because my current chair, though it has been wonderful for years, I have worn through. The padding has lost its loft so much that I can feel the bolts that hold the seat to the base when sitting. I scrape my leg on the spot where I have physically worn the foam down to the plywood. I will finally get to retire my lumbar support cushion.

Once I have a real chair I will be ready to conquer the world: when I was a toddler I threw a temper tantrum because my parents wouldn’t get me a quality chair to sit in. I’m still angry at them about this but if you all would oblige me with