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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
3 days ago

molded carpet series melts discarded fiber remnants into sculptural furniture skins

Jack Craig transforms discarded carpet remnants into sculptural surfaces through heat, pressure, and manual manipulation, revealing new material characteristics beyond their original domestic function.
fromEarth911
3 weeks ago

Guest Idea: Wearing the Change-Transforming Coffee Pods Into Meaningful Jewelry

Each piece begins with used coffee pods collected from my community, materials that were never meant to last beyond a single use. Before any design work begins, the pods must be cleaned, sanitized, flattened, cut, folded, and shaped entirely by hand. They arrive dented, stained, and inconsistent, carrying the marks of their previous life. Learning how to work with those imperfections, rather than erasing them, was one of my first challenges.
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