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Newspaper wood

From boingboing yesterday:

“Kranthout (“newspaper wood” in Dutch) is a new product that has been developed by Mieke Meijer for design company vij5…. As the name suggests, this is ‘wood’ made from newspaper. The individual pages are rolled together using a specially developed machine to produce tabloid sized ‘logs’, which can then be milled into planks, drilled and sanded just as real wood might. Neatly, the kranthout also replicates the grain of wood, with streaks of text or color photographs revealed in the new planks when it is cut.”

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“…For the last decade, Zac Freeman has been saving pieces of household junk that would one day become a part of his masterfully intriguing art collection. He wanted to give his two dimensional portraits three dimensional value by using glue to meld everything from bottle caps, nails and old keyboard pieces onto a board to create faces that can only be seen from a distance.…”

From: https://www.home-designing.com/2010/10/recyled-art-zac-freeman

Zac’s website: https://www.zacfreemanart.com/artwork.html

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