david keller: digested urbanizm

‘digested urbanizm’ by david keller, israel images courtesy of david keller

israeli designer, david keller has produced ‘digested urbanizm’  a limited run collection of vases made from traditional copper vases and recycled paper.

the set of five vases are covered in a pulp, made out of paper collected from various places throughout the city of jerusalem.  the rich texture of the external material juxtapose the shiny copper visible on the interior, creating a hard dissonance reminiscent of the cultural and political complexity of the city.

david keller’s ‘autour‘ project was a shortlisted winner of the designboom ‘green life‘ competition along with ‘biosphere‘, his entry for designboom’s ‘dining in 2015‘ competition.

(left) first prototype (right) second prototype

covering the vase with pulp

leaflets from a bulletin board that were used to create pulp

newspaper from eastern jerusalem

jerusalem post cards transformed into pulp

paper, soon to be pulp

bulletin board waste, soon to be pulp