╳ 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.
╳ 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.