David Graas

Enter David Graas, a designer who consciously considers the afterlife of his designs.

FYS (Finish Your Self) junior, 2007
Corrugated cardboard

FYS junior is a puzzle chair that little ones can fix up together with parents. The chair is 100% recyclable and uses a large part of its own packaging.

Don't spill your coffee table, 2007
Corrugated cardboard

A coffee table made up from corrugated cardboard parts that are flatpacked and slide together for easy assembly.

not a box, 2007

The lamp shade doubles up as the packaging that holds its parts within, including bulb, plug, cable and manual. Just cut off the top and bottom flap and install. Minimising wastage, a graphical suggestion of what the lamp could have been is cut out to let light through.

[images and text extracted from David Graas.]

David Graas is located at Van Hallstraat 260, 1051 HM Amsterdam, Netherlands; Tel: (31)6 4808 0207. For more information, visit David Graas.

via the amazing treehugger.

Nel Linssen

We are surprised we have not found Nel Linssen prior to this. Her creations, inspired by rhythms and structues in the botanical world, arise intuitively in an empirical way. She challenges logical and technical constructions to transform paper from a tactile material into wearable objects.

Papieren Sieraden Paper Jewellery, 1990
Paper Necklace

Papieren Sieraden Paper Jewellery, 1986
Paper Necklace with elastic thread

[images and text extracted from Nel Linssen]

Nel Linssen is located at Groesbeekseweg 197, 6523 NS Nijmegen Holland; Tel:(024)323 1765. For more information, visit Nel Linssen.

via designboom

Marion van Cruchten

designboom recently published snapshots of a brilliant selection of jewellery. We showcase some of the choice picks created out of paper.

Marion van Cruchten is a Dutch designer who recently graduated from the Department of Jewellery and Product Design at the Academie of Fine Arts, Netherlands.

These paper bracelets are created from old supermarket coupons!

Revalue' series
Paper Bracelet
Revalue' series
Paper Bracelet

[images and text from Marion van Cruchten]
For more information, visit Marion van Cruchten

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Atelier Bomdesign

Moment nr 1, 2007
40cm (D) x 27cm (B), reused books


Tempest prototype, 2007
22cm x 20cm x 21cm

If you have been inspired by the paper magic we have been finding, here is something you can take home! We found these gorgeous Boeklampen from Bomdesign. The website is in Flemish, so we ran it through the translator.

Atelier Bomdesign is a design office, established in Rotterdam. It was set up in 1995, by the designers Michael Bom and Antoinet Deurloo. Both studied graphic design at Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam. Bomdesign is an all-rounded design office, handling all facets of the design process including research, consultation, concept development, design and design production. Specially treating books into products is one of their cool creations! Purchase their Boeklampen designs here!

[images and text from Atelier Bomdesign.]

Atelier Bomdesign is located at Gerard Scholtenstraat 126, 3035 ST Rotterdam, Nederland; Tel: (31)01 0465 1922. For more information, visit Atelier Bomdesign.

Ferry Staverman

I found out about Ferry Staverman from a beautiful blog prettypretty.


Object cut from Bee board (a form of layered cardboard using laminate and recycled cardboard).


Object from Exhibition at Weekend Art Gallery Loolaan 49, 2007
Cut from Bee board

The website is in Flemish, so we ran the text through an online translator and gathered this much information. The Exhibition at the Weekend Art Gallery Loolaan 49, in Apeldoornwas was held in 2006 . Under the theme of Space Odyssey, Ferry Staverman studied the possibilities of spatial exploration. The objects created reflect a personal travel, where the artist developed the object and its surrounding space figuratively.

[images and text from Ferry Staverman.]

Ferry Staverman can be contacted at de Heze 38 7335 BD Apeldoorn; Tel: (31) 05 5541 8608. For more information, visit Ferry Staverman.

Miriam Londoño

Three Art Books, 2006
40x65cm; 40x60cm; 40x55cm, paper with cotton and linen fibers

Miriam Londoño has developed a unique technique that allows her to write out stretches of script. She has been using texts as visual objects and creates duality transforming by paper into words. Her creations are open and transparent to allow reading between the empty spaces, creating a visual play between contents, space and light.

Memories, 2005
40x60cm, paper with cotton and linen fibers

[images and text extracted from Miriam Londoño.]

Miriam Londoño can be contacted at Trompstraat 318, 2518 BS, The Hague, The Netherlands; Tel : (31) 7 0324 0636. For more information, visit Miriam Londoño.