Furniture making from packaging material

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Cardboard can be employed in several ways; it is a natural, ecological, completely recyclable material. It is resistant, cheap, light and it can be customized and used for modular furniture. These features and, first of all, its inner strength, if properly used, suggest the possibility of turning a bidimensional cardboard sheet into product. Cardboard goes along different aspects of our contemporary way of life: changing home, transforming our furniture, having temporary offices, shops, place to work and live in.

We often move and travel for different reasons: study, work, life changes. This is why we need light, portable, changing, objects that suite to different life contests. These objects are not supposed to be everlasting and luxurious but resistant, easy to use, and beautiful, of course!

This workshop wishes to explore the potential of paper-based materials to create furniture. All the characteristics of cardboard boxes, cases, or cartons will be investigated in order to learn about the strengths of these materials for providing comfortable functions and solutions, as well as new innovative designs.

Throughout the week, every step of the design process will be thoroughly documented for each participant to keep. The final results will be exhibited at the Museum of Paper in Angoulême later in the year.

This workshop is supported by the Conseil Général de la Charente.

Marco Giunta (IT)

Marco Giunta was born in Milan in 1966. He graduated in Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and completed a Design & Management Master at the same university. In 1992 he began to co-operate with the furniture producer Zerodisegno and with the company Quattrocchio that makes exhibition setting up systems. He designed packaging, stands, and events.

For more than 10 years he has been teaching packaging design in different university and schools. Politecnico di Milano, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano, Università di Genova, are some among them.

He held workshops on cardboard material, furniture and packaging design theme in Italy and all over Europe in several places: Politecnico di Milano, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano, Università di Genova, Facoltà di Architettura di Palermo, Fachhochschule Muenster-University of Applied Sciences - Germany, Design School of Gand - Belgium.

In 1995 has founded the company Disegni with the aim to introduce design and high-level planning in the paper industry. Disegni designs and builds cardboard settings, display stands, packaging and furniture.

Disegni works with different customers in several fields: Benetton, Fabrica, Garzanti Editore, Italocremona, Magneti Marelli S.P.A., Politecnico Di Milano. Reebok, Tele+Digitale (SKY TV), Telesistem, Zerodisegno, Pupa, Biotherm, Wella, Dockers, L’Oreal, Mars spa, etc.

INDP

The French National Institute of Design Packaging (INDP) is based in Angoulême. It works for creative strategies of the packaging sector. Part of its aim is to inform and educate about design packaging. The reason for participating in this workshop is to raise participants’ awareness of the different uses of packaging materials, and show new possibilities of paper products.