Black Box Project arrives in Moscow

- Black Box continues global tour

 

- Project designed to test Iggesund Invercote material

 

Material manufacturer Iggesund is taking its Black Box Project to Russia, with a new box to be unveiled with contents created by the Swedish photographer and film maker Jens Assur at an exhibition at the Flacon Club in Moscow.

 

For almost two years Iggesund Paperboard has been running the Black Box Project, with exhibitions in cities from Paris, London and Amsterdam to Hamburg, Milan and New York.

 

As part of the project, Iggesund has challenged a number of well-known international designers and design companies to fill a black box of a specified format with contents that in some way test the limits of Iggesund's Invercote paperboard. Six designers have taken part in the project so far.

 

The Black Box Project gives these designers a tool with which they can do whatever they like. “The Black Box is nothing but a stage on which designers perform their art, without any limitations apart from using the unique characteristics of Invercote and the size of the box,” according to Iggesund.

 

Designers to take on the project so far include Dutch agency van Heertum Design, which recently designed Iggesund’s 2012 corporate Christmas card, and Brunazzi&Associati, which incorporated traditional Italian elements to the design by using the Black Box to house homemade pasta shapes, a dried tomato sauce and a colander for draining, which is made from Iggesund’s Invercote Bio paperboard (pictured, top).

 

When the doors open on December 6 to an exhibition at the Flacon Club in Moscow, a new box will be unveiled with contents created by the Swedish photographer and film maker Jens Assur, who said: ‘When I was asked to take part in the Black Box Project I didn't hesitate a second.

 

‘As a creative artist, it's rare that I have the opportunity to work so freely and at such a high artistic level in projects developed by customers. But in this case we could do so on both a conceptual and intellectual level.’

 

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