The Brand: Papernomad

An international designer, eco-friendly and innovative, Papernomad is all about sustainability, recycling and green-friendly innovation.

Its design products are for everyday life, conceived for a modern living and eco certified. Indeed they only engage recycled materials in the production of his slevees; while recycling is their mantra, they also pay a great deal of attention to the style and a cool design.

A young and witty brand, internationally acknowledged for its innovation, creativity and beautifully designed creations. The brand produces bio-degradable and ecologic products which are locally made between Austria and Germany, so to support the original authenticity of its artistic products.

Papernomad offers eco-friendly and eco-cool sleeves, cases for iPad, iPhone, iPod, Macbook and BlackBerry. A great idea for your green gift, eco-friendly sleeve, which are sustainable and unique design creations to give to your significant others!

High-tech inside, low-tech outside – Papernomad is the first manufacturer of laptop and iPad sleeves made from a compostable paper-composite.

It’s made entirely from renewable resources. At the core of the sleeves lies a sandwich of several layers of paper and a bio-polymer membrane.

According to the Viennese company, the eco-sleeves are even tear-resistant.

Despite all the marketing-clever memento-nostalgia it remains to be seen if the recordable paper sleeves won’t outstrip electronic devices as the preferred storage medium.

It is not so much the ecological aspect that constitutes the competitive edge of the product, according to Papernomad’s product-designer Christoph Rochna, it is more about their “identity”: they tell their owners’ stories in the form of notes, prints, stamps and stickers.

“The sleeves document our past through accidental marks and traces left on them. We immortalize memories on paper; that is what makes our products unique”

In this era of iPhone-uniformity, sleeves and covers for mobile electronic devices become a differentiation-tool within a jumble of good tastes.

Besides a wide range of choices – from leopard patterns to elegant leather cases – contemporary products demand ecological sensibility because ‘green’ is no longer the emblem of the fundie but the fashion of all connoisseurs of life.

Papernomads unite fashion and idealism. Imagine a tear resistant envelope made from several layers of paper, a bio-polymer membrane and a lining made of wool.

Papernomad sleeves leave a lasting impression on the user, but none on the environment: the outer skin acts as a paper-canvas to collect your memories and when the life of the device comes to an end, the envelope can do the same – it’s bio-degradable.

The author: Anna is a dreamer, an idealist, a huge lover of everything is cool and innovative. Passionate about movies, avid reader and relentless traveller, she enjoys taking pictures and she fools herself to be a good photographer only because she thinks she knows how to use a professional SLR camera. She lived in New York, with which she (hopelessly) still in love with. Four wonderful years passed by and deeply changed her prospective. Anna starts growing a passion for innovative and eco-friendly design, in a world which is constantly in evolution and in deep need of a change.