flatpacked Little three-day workshop with a group of product design students on working with paper. The brief was simple: make a product that can be sent flat, by post or email I left the purpose of the product up to them and working with product design students is different from working with graphic design students. Product designers are brought up to explore their materials more than graphic designers. This caused a few of them trouble as we neared the deadline, but they ended up realising how the paper worked very early in the process. Final products ranged from working pinhole-camera, plates and disposable jewellery to a fake cake and a DIY nude-drawing model. The very short brief was followed by an elaboration and loads of suggestions. Due to time-constraints on this workshop, I urged the students to do quick research by looking at other paper models and packaging. I plan to repeat this workshop with some graphic designers at some point to see how the outputs will differ. I didn't force the students to use specific techniques and tools, so their work ranged from models drawn by hand and photocopied, over Illustrator-files to 3D work. final models will be available for free download later.