Papier Machine

Papier Machine is a toy-booklet that explores electronic circuits: a research by Marion Pinaffo & Raphaël Pluvinage who deal with the “assumed” complex phenomena of our world.

Paris-based designers Marion Pinaffo and Raphaël Pluvinage completed the Papier Machine, a three-years project started at the Ensci – Les Ateliers school and supported by the cultural programme Audi talents awards.

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Img.1 Marion Pinaffo and Raphaël Pluvinage, Papier Machine, 2017

Img.2 Marion Pinaffo and Raphaël Pluvinage, Papier Machine, 2017

Img.3 Marion Pinaffo and Raphaël Pluvinage, Papier Machine, 2017

Img.4 Marion Pinaffo and Raphaël Pluvinage, Papier Machine, 2017

The project being exhibited at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2017

Img.5 Marion Pinaffo and Raphaël Pluvinage, Papier Machine, 2017

The toys are ready to be cut, colored, folded, assembled or torn. In the image toy n°9/13

Toy 9/13

The toys are all silkscreened with special inks that have different electric properties. In the image toy n°1/13

Close up of the toys 13/13

Toy 3/13

Papier Machine is a booklet gathering a family of 13 paper-made electronic toys

Img.6 Marion Pinaffo and Raphaël Pluvinage, Papier Machine, 2017

Papier Machine is a booklet gathering a family of thirteen paper-made electronic toys ready to be cut, colored, folded, assembled or torn. They are all silkscreened with special inks that have different electric properties. These toys aim to reveal what is hidden behind our machines’ magic, smarthphones included: a world of materials, shapes, colors, stories and even smells. In other words, it is an expedition in the invisible aesthetics and materiality of the electronic.

Papier Machine
Design: Marion Pinaffo & Raphaël Pluvinage
Completion: 2017

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