Each year, the paper mill Iggesund organizes the event “The Iggesund Design Experience” – and this year I had the pleasure to join in. Along with about 25 other guests from around the world, I spent four wonderful days (from 22nd to 25th of August 2016) in South Norrland in Sweden. Since all participants are professionally connected to paperboard, e.g. as packaging designers, paper engineers or artists, we all got along well from the very beginning. It’s great to be together with like-minded people and to talk about our favorite subject: paper.

On 10th of March 2016, the first “Paper Playground”, called “Pop It Up”, took place at the Red Dot Design Museum in Essen. This series of events is organized by the distribution company Freytag & Petersen. I was invited to give a lecture about my paper works. In addition, some of my artistic pop-up sculptures…