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A3 Animals by Michael Schoner
Amsterdam designer Michael Schoner has designed a series of paper masks without eye holes that look a bit like animals.
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Called A3 Animals, the geometric patterns can be printed out on various sizes of paper and stapled together.
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Make your own here.
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Photographs are by Anika Schwarzlose and Jonas Lund.
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The text below is from Schoner:
A3 Animals
The A3 Animals (some of them are actually A2) are a DIN normed piece of paper folded into an animal head that one can wear on his own. It is held together by ordinary office material: staples and rubber bands.
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You can download them as pdf, print them on your office machine and duplicate it in mass quantities (if you like) for little money.
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They have a pattern on them rasterized Xerox style which plays with geometry in its folded and unfolded state.
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When put on the masks become an extension to the body or a sculpture on your head.
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There are no holes for the eyes to see through. This way it's more about the geometric shape you wear on your head.
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You are caught in the inside space of the animal and vulnerable to the outside.
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Above: Fox
You are a paper-shaman connecting to that animal. Eventually the masks stay behind.
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Above: Cat
These “authentic native office artifacts” decay after a short lifespan in the wastepaper basket.
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Above: Bear