Abstract

Handmade paper has fallen into disuse due to the offer of industrial paper which is much more accessible and achieves feels and textures like never before, but industrial paper has never managed to have the material’s expressiveness that handmade paper has.

This is the starting point for a research applied to the design of graphic production integrated into the subject of Materials Laboratory at ISEC Lisboa.

This applied and collaborative research with students started in the 2016-17 academic year, with students from the old curriculum of the Design and Graphical Production degree, at the time, adapting to the new degree’s curriculum in the 2017-18 academic year, continuing with the students of the previous years until obtaining tangible results worthy of being presented as scientific research. In the academic year 2018-2019, the institution opened a technical and professional course in Graphic and Digital Production and this course has the same Curricular Unit, so the results obtained by the students were also integrated into this study.

This study intends to understand the extent to which the additives added to the recycled paper pulp are important in the results of the material's behaviour, either when cutting or folding, so the exercises requested from students were a paper-cut and a pop-up.