packaging as content

June 8, 2009

Die Cut Cardboard Box Carpeting

Letting the functional tucks and flaps of cardboard carton packaging dictate the shapes of her pieces, Dutch designer, Wendy Plomp also puts her cardboard rugs in a social context:

… her idea for a cardboard rug—an ingenious concept of portability, sustainability and humour—came from thinking about how we define our personal, private space. “I noticed how people gave cardboard new functions—like to beg or sleep on, to draw on or use for hitch-hiking signs, even to break dance on, which gave me the idea to print the inside of a used box with a carpet pattern so that wherever you are, this carpet can be your temporary clean space, your home.”

about Wendy Plomp

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