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Junk Mail Art
Junk mail: from debris to design
27 February 2008
Top art school students from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco are currently displaying a wide range of works made from junk mail.
With the show, called 'Junk mail: from debris to design', the students are hoping to encourage Americans to fight back against what they regard an insidious industry. The average American adult receives more than 18 kilos of junk mail a year. To produce all this junk, every year nearly 100 million trees are cut down.
And… the students are also involved in www.stopjunkmail.org – a website helping Americans to get junk mail out of their life.
Many thanks to the Bay Area Recycling Outreach Coalition (BayROC) for giving us permission to publish the photos below on our website.
Image 1 - Some of the works made by the students.
Image 2 - 'The Mailbox Monster' by Zachary Roberts,
Rex Waters and Pakayla Biehn.
Image 3 - 'Junk mail portrait' by Ruben Guzman, Jon Falkenberg, Adam Reeder, Lucia Hye Yoon Joo and Brett Mastaler.
