Jennifer Collier, a British artist who recycles paper into 3-D objects by sewing sheets of it like fabric. Not surprisingly, Collier worked with textiles before migrating to paper. “Found and recycled papers have always been my biggest source of inspirations, so it just came to be that they also became the media, as well as the inspiration for my work,” she tells Co.Design. Thereby, a typewriter is crafted from typewriter manuals, a telephone from phone directories, and a camera from old photos.
They’re all pieced together using an ordinary sewing machine. “With experience and practice you just get a feel for how far you can push the paper without it tearing,” Collier says. “I break surprisingly few needles
