Bronze Jewelry · 2020
Eco-jew and Decorative Objects Jewelry
- Bronze A' Design Award 2020 in Jewelry
- CLIENT: Roberta Sa Faustini
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 13,918
- Verification code F403EEBEBF · Verify this award
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About Eco-jew and Decorative Objects Jewelry
Eco-jew and Decorative Objects is a collection of jewelry and decorative pieces made from paper. The bracelets, necklaces and objects are formed from discarded toilet paper roll tubes and from handmade recycled paper. All pieces are made by hand with a cutting technique. Production is carried out by a social inclusion project in Brazil that serves low-income people with mental illness and social vulnerability. The collection gives a new use to a material that is discarded every day, and it keeps the whole cycle sustainable, from material to production.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Eco-jew and Decorative Objects Jewelry is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Eco-jew and Decorative Objects Jewelry is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Eco-jew and Decorative Objects Jewelry splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- Cardboard jewerly and decorative objects made in Brazil by Oficina de Papel, a social inclusion project that serves the population with mental disabilities and social vulnerability.
The pieces were developed by the designer and architect Roberta Sa Faustini with the idea of reusing the cardboard roll of toilet paper discarded daily.
They are also made by recycled paper produced by Oficina de Papel. - Dimensions & Packaging
- There are small pieces as bracelets and necklaces, that measure:
Bracelets: 60mm x 10mm x 60mm or 20mm x 20mm x 60mm
Necklaces: 15mm x15mm x 400mm or 20mm x 20mm x 300mm
And big pieces as decorative objects that can mesure 40mm x 40mm x 4000mm. - Tags
- Ecojew, Paper Jewelry, Jewelry, Cardboard Jewelry, Paper Decorative objects, table necklace, Paper Chain
- Production Technology
- They are all made manually with reuse of toilet paper roll and handmade recycled paper, with cutting technique.
- Design Challenge
- The great challenge was to give a new meaning to a material such as the toilet paper roll. How to make eco-jewelry and decorative objects that please the eyes and are beautiful pieces.
- Research
- It was thinking about how do reuse a material that is discarded every day in the whole world that the first piece of what is now a collection of paper jewelry and decorative objects was born.
This first bracelet was made with the reuse of the toilet paper roll tube.
I wanted the whole cycle to be sustainable, from material to production, and I research about social projects.
The production is all make by Oficina de Papel, an institution that serves low-income people with mental illness and vulnerability. They also make colorful recycled craft papers. - Inspiration
- The pieces were developed with the idea of reusing the cardboard roll of toilet paper discarded daily.
The hole cycle is sustainable, from materials to production. - Project Duration
- The project started in April 2013. The first bracelet was finished a few months after that. Since then, a lot of new pieces were developed, as new bracelets, necklaces and decorative objects as table and wall necklaces, paper chains.
This piece won an honorable mention in the Brazilian Object Award at the A Casa Museum. - Operation Flow
- It was because of a nuisance - the garbage we make every day - that the first piece of what is now a line of Eco-jewelry and paper objects was born.
This first bracelet was made with the reuse of the toilet paper roll tube.
I wanted the whole cycle to be sustainable, from material to production, and I went after a social project.
The production is all make by Oficina de Papel, an institution that serves low-income people with mental illness and vulnerability. They also make colorful recycled craft papers.
Together we managed to do this work with purpose. - Image Credits
- Image #1 Roberta Sa Faustini, Image #2 Roberta Sa Faustini, Image #3 Roberta Sa Faustini, Image #4 Roberta Sa Faustini, Image #5 Roberta Sa Faustini
Video Credits: Roberta Sa Faustini
