╳ Role Reversal?

  Described as “a reversing of a traditional production process; not from wood to paper, but the other way around,” The Newspaper Wood is a collaboration between two designers from The Netherlands: Mieke Meijer of Mieke dingen and Vij5

Meijer came up with the clever idea of transforming discarded daily newspapers into a renewable material – paper pulp, and ironically, the layers of paper appear like lines of a wood grain and the rings of a tree just like a real wood. Using pre-loved papers they tightly bind the printed sheets with a unique rolling technique developed in conjunction with a leading Dutch Newspaper and the result is a high density newspaper wood ‘log’ that can be cut, milled, sanded and generally treated like any other type of wood. 

Visually, the blending of the print, when in sliced plank sections mimics the grain of timber beautifully.