Cardboard bound February 10, 2014 – Posted in: book arts, bookbinding – Tags: Recycling
“The streets are no longer paved with gold. Pizza boxes and delivery boxes from a well river in South America, crunch underfoot like beige snow” – London-based book artist Mark Cockram.
He calls them Rubbish Books, and they are bound from the pulp of abandoned cardboard boxes that litter the streets of his neighborhood.
And why turn cardboard into paper? Cockram says because it is “simple stuff.” he immerses the side of a packing box in a vat of water for 15 minutes, then he is able to de-laminate the corrugations leaving him with a number of sheets of paper. No mashing, no pulping etc.
Will a cardboard edition be far behind?