This is lovely all-consuming idea: newspapers turned wood again.
Kranthout, which means ‘newspaper woos’ in Dutch, is a new product made by Mieke Meijer for the design company vij5. The company says that they’re “reversing a traditional production process; not from wood to paper, but the other way around”.
Old newspapers get stacked and stuck together in planks, drilled and sanded just like real wood. Then the pieces of wood can be used as you would use real wood – although I wouldn’t recommend building your house from these just yet ;)
Newspaper wood is a really fun and creative way of reconsuming.
(Spotted on WorldChanging)
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
