Wishful thinking with Debbie’s Wijskamp Paper pulp cabinets

Cosmina Dinu — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:49:06 +0000

Paper furnishing is becoming a real technique, experimenting, adding on and expanding. I am almost sure that it is already taught at some universities, or at least some optional complementary classes at Innovation courses. It is a versatile and familiar material and what some would really appreaciate is that it has a natural odour and texture.

The Paper pulp cabinet by Debbie Wijskamp, is a totemic white furniture piece, constructed from various oblong boxes stacked upon one another. Some have drawers, while others are left open to function as shelves. At first glance, they look like they are made from the polystyrene containers used to pack fish, but instead each inch-thick box component has been moulded from paper pulp and assembled using simple box-jointing techniques borrowed from woodwork.

The Paper pulp cabinet was on show at Designhuis, Eindhoven as part of the second annual Talent exhibition during Dutch design week. The works of graduates from 30 European design institutes and universities were showcased from october 17th to october 24th, 2009. I was really taken down because I couldn’t answer the invitation, but surely next year I’ll be there and document the event.

Debbie Wijskamp

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Cosmina Dinu — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:59:26 +0000

This project really took me back in the early days as a school pupil when we were leaving the ink flowing down the pen’s nib on the blotting paper to create spongy shapes. It was anyway a no 1 destressing action during a long math hour.
Spanish designer Oscar Diaz gave this refuge a proper meaning. He designed a calendar that uses the capillary action of ink spreading across paper to display the date.

Each month, a bottle of coloured ink spreads across a sheet of paper embossed with numbers, colouring them in as it goes.

Details from designer:

Ink Calendar make use of the timed pace of the ink spreading on the paper to indicate time. The ink is absorbed slowly, and the numbers in the calendar are ‘printed ‘ daily. One a day, they are filled with ink until the end of the month. The calendar enhances the perception of time passing and not only signaling it. The aim of the project is to address our senses, rather than the logical and conscious brain.

The ink colors are based on a spectrum, which relate to a “color temperature scale”, each month having a color related to our perception of the weather on that month. The colors range from dark blue in December to three shades of green in spring or orange and red in the summer.

Ink Calendar is shown as part of SUEÑOS DE UN GRIFO.Diseño con alma de agua at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.

Curated by Hector Serrano and Javier Esteban, the exhibition explores the role that objects may have in our dialogue with water from different points of view.

On view until October 11, 2009, the exhibition has been organized by ddi (Sociedad Estatal para el Desarrollo del Diseño y la Innovación, and Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, where is being held.

When: 17 July – 11 October 2009
Where: Sala Juana Mordó, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid (Spain)

Oscar Diaz
Hector Serrano
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Wishful thinking with Debbie’s Wijskamp Paper pulp cabinets

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