Back To Basics, Retro Objects Made of Paper

Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann are the designers behind the contemporary design studio Zim and Zou based in Nancy, France. Each one of these colorful paper crafted devices part of a series called Back to Basics is patiently hand cut using sustainable paper. Even the smallest “waste” scraps are re-utilized to make some of the smallest details. Including a Polaroid camera, an old Leica, a Walkman, a  Nintendo game control, a floppy disk, a stone age cell phone,  the series has been almost a year in the making (and apparently still in progress).

“We decided to use a paper process to transform an industrial object into a handmade craft. The fact that the objects are not working places the user in a spectator position, a way to see the object out of its function.”.

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