How Bin Bin was initialised and developed

It all began with a mistake. I was on my way home from Munich and bought a French interior magazine for the flight. At home my wife was skimming through it during cooking. “This is a good idea”, she suddenly said. “What is a good idea?” I replied. “A paper bin that resembles crumpled paper!” she continued. “No”, I said, “it is not a crumpled paper bin but an acrylic cylinder filled with crumpled paper to illustrate the purpose. If the photographer was only filming the cylinder it had looked like a water glass… but your idea is great!”

The most natural way to resemble crumpled paper is to crumple paper. So the designer glued small paper cups and then crumpled them and unfolded them again. After 2-300 the desired shape emerged – a perfect balance between chaos and harmony.

 

The small crumpled paper cup was scanned in a 3D scanner.

The 3D model is cleaned and corrected in many ways.

An analysis of how the production mould should separate…

The 1:1 model cut in massive hard foam and then corrected.

Bin Bin is white, red and black – the three traditional design colours. Most popular one has been the white one.

Launch at Formland with the Scandinavian Distributor Good Company in 2005. Since then we have manufactured over 140.000 Bin Bins!