RISD Grad Uses Pastel Pulp to Create Sustainable Designs
Meet the RISD Grad pushing pastel pulp to the forefront of sustainable design.
Twenty-two-year-old Mike Ruiz-Serra grew up in Westchester, a great vantage point from which to peer in on New York’s constantly evolving design scene. And for his first collection as an industrial design graduate from RISD, he cites barely-older-than-him contemporaries like Zach Martin and Thomas Barger as people whose work helped him to understand the full potential of his favored medium: paper pulp.
Ruiz-Serra’s aptly named Pulp collection makes use of a non-toxic paper pulp that’s pulverized and applied in additive processes: Flat surfaces are built over OSB (a type of engineered wood similar to particle board) while parts with compound curvature are constructed over inflatable molds that Ruiz can later deflate and reuse...
