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Dutch designer Mieke Meijer and Dutch design studio Vij5 presented a wood-like material made from recycled newspapers at Ventura Lambrate in Milan last month.

Reading Light by Christian Kocx

NewspaperWood is made by gluing the papers together and then cutting or sanding them to reveal lines that are similar to a wood grain.

Reading Light by Christian Kocx

The material has been used by designers rENs, Breg Hanssen, Greetje van Tiem, Ontwerpduo, Floris Hovers, Christian Kocx and Tessa Kuyvenhoven to create a range of prototype objects and furniture, including jewellery, a lamp and a display cabinet, which were shown in Milan.

Press to Open by Floris Hovers

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Press to Open by Floris Hovers

Here are some more details from Mieke Meijer and Vij5:

NewspaperWood | KrantHout

project development & collection | Vij5
material concept | Mieke Meijer
first prototype collection designed by | rENs, Breg Hanssen, Greetje van Tiem, Ontwerpduo, Floris Hovers, Christian Kocx & Tessa Kuyvenhoven

Paper Frames by Ontwerpduo

The layers of paper appear like lines of a wood grain or the rings of a tree …
by designlabel Vij5

Paper Frames by Ontwerpduo

Introducing a new material: NewspaperWood

EN Every day, piles of newspapers are discarded and recycled into new paper.

Framed by Breg Hanssen

During her study at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2003, Mieke Meijer devised a solution to use this surplus of paper into a renewed material: NewspaperWood.

Framed by Breg Hanssen

NewspaperWood shows a reversing of a traditional production process; not from wood to paper, but the other way around.

Display Cabinet by rENs

When a NewspaperWood log is cut, the layers of paper appear like lines of a wood grain or the rings of a tree and therefore resembles the aesthetic of real wood.

Display Cabinet by rENs

The material can be cut, milled and sanded and generally treated like any other type of wood.

Upcycling

About the environmental impact of NewspaperWood

EN NewspaperWood does not aim to be a large scale alternative to wood, nor to use all paper waste into a new material.

From A to Z by Greetje van Tiem

The main theme in the project is ëupcyclingí with which we show how you can change a surplus of material into something more valuable by using it in another context.

From A to Z by Greetje van Tiem

Although printing techniques for newspapers are nowadays efficient enough to reduce the test prints and first unusable newspapers to a minimum, there still is enough material available.

Next to that we use ëyesterdayís newspaperí: the newspapers that are printed but not sold and will turn out to be old news the next day anyway .. a perfect local source for our basic material!

United by Tessa Kuyvenhoven

To actually upcycle the newspapers into our new wood-like material, we (temporarily) take the newspapers out of the already existing and efficient cycle of paper-recycling.

United by Tessa Kuyvenhoven

We think it would be ideal to be able to bring our own waste material back into the circle again.

Sample Series by rENs

Therefore we use a glue to construct the material which is free of solvents and plastici-zers which would make it more difficult to recycle.

Sample Series by rENs

With this it is not only possible to put our own sawing and sandpapering waste back into the circle, but also to bring the NewspaperWood products to the scrap yard for recycling, although we hope they will be cherished for a long time…

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Here are some more images of Yuya Ushida‘s expanding plastic sofa for Dutch company Ahrend, featured in our movie interview with the designer published yesterday on Dezeen Screen.

Called XXXX_Sofa, the piece is made of 8000 sticks and 2000 rings that snap together.

The components are injection-moulded from recycled plastic bottles.

A stool version with 600 parts is available in kit form.

Ushida originally created the system in bamboo while studying at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands.

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Dutch office furniture company Royal Ahrend NV is producing transformable furniture XXXX_Sofa and XXXX_Stool designed by Yuya Ushida.

XXXX_Sofa/XXXX_Stool are industrial version of Ushida’s Graduation project SOFA_XXXX for the exam at the Design Academy Eindhoven in June 2010. It was rewarded with the maximum level of 10 and the graduation was cum laude. This original model is handmade of about 8000 bamboo sticks and 2000 rings. The basic idea is that a chair can change into a sofa by a simple movement without any tools…

A chair becomes a sofa, and a sofa becomes a chair.

“Whenever I see it the beauty of the simple geometrical structure and its repetition always fascinates me. SOFA_XXXX is made of just 4 different lengths of sticks, rings and joints. the parts on their own don’t seem to be special, but when put together in a regular pattern their beauty appears. It can be contracted, which makes it easier for transportation…”

This was a my concept for SOFA_XXXX, which was my graduation project 2010. I used bamboo sticks and It was all hand made. Therefore it is hard to mass produce. However I prefer to focus on our daily life rather than making an art.

In order to use as a daily life object, we chose to use plastic injection molding. And you can click in to build it up. It consists of only 8 elements, you can make many shapes. (e.g. Sofa, Stool, Table and Bench etc…)

Also it is used genuine recycled PET, no glass fiber for strength. I wanted to do something with the PET bottle that overflows in our society.

My design motto is to make people happy while using things that I have made. Also, I would like to translate a beauty that is surrounding us into my objects.

XXXX_Sofa and XXXX_Stool suit this very well. Of course these can be used as a furniture, but also you can enjoy the geometrical structure like your own Eiffel tower! Then, if you put together it by yourself, I am sure, it definitely will be existence more than furniture for you.

XXXX_Sofa is made by 8000 sticks and 2000 rings
XXXX_Stool is made out of around 600 parts (sticks and rings)
XXXX_Stool is available in kit form

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Japanese designer Jo Nagasaka of Sschemata Architecture Office presented this series of wooden tables with fluorescent resin encasing their gouged-out tops at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan last month.

Called Shrine Flat-table, the piece is based on a traditional Japanese design with eight legs.

The colour of the resin is more or less intense depending on the varying depths of the wood across its surface.

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The information below is from Jo Nagasaka:

Flat Table peeled

The Shrine Flat-table is a contemporary interpretation of the traditional Japanese Hassoku dai, which means 8 legged table. The top of the Shrine Table can be separated from its legs.

In addition to the traditional table we added a layer of coloured epoxy poured on a wooden surface which grain had been gushed out to create different depth and by doing so various intensity in colour.

Shrine Flat-table comes in 3 Heights with the following dimensions: 750×300 (top) and total height of 540, 720 or 900mm.

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