Thai designer Natchar Sawatdichai's collection of Qualified paper blinds are designed to offer a sustainable alternative to those made from environmentally damaging plastics.
Sawatdichai, who graduated from London's Kingston University earlier this year with a masters degree in Product and Furniture Design, created the adjustable blinds as the majority of blinds are made from "over-qualified" materials.

"By overqualified I mean providing something that consumers didn't ask for," she explained to Dezeen. "At the same time, these other materials also use excessive energy to produce and dispose of."
"Consumer behaviour has created a 'throwaway society', which shortens the average lifespan of a product," she continued.
Sawatdichai argues that paper is a sustainable, affordable and readily available alternative to the plastics that are currently used to produce blinds and other home decoration products.
"Paper is the most versatile material," she stated. "It's available in many formats, it supports experimentation and mass production, while also providing the widest possible range of end-of-life options."

Made from recycled paper, or paper sourced from responsible resources, Sawatdichai's Qualified blinds are cut and creased by machine, and folded and glued by hand. It takes approximately six to seven hours to make one blind.
"The actual paper I used for the prototypes was newsprint paper and Hanji paper (tradi...