Need a change in 2012?
We recommend the SLIMTARRA wallpapers!
SLIM means clever, smart, cute in Dutch. And SLIM means slender or thin in English.
TARRA (Dutch for tare weight, empty weight, dead weight) is a nice word, like DADA or ANNA BLUME.
Every little while Extrapool in Nijmegen (Netherhlands) invites artists to design a SLIMTARRA wallpaper. The wallpaper design is printed by Knust, Extrapool‘s renowned stencil print workshop, and is then exhibited on one of the walls in the Extrapool building.
SLIMTARRA has been running since about the year 2000 and the number of different SLIMTARRA designs seems to be endless. In contrast with usual wallpaper, which mostly comes on long widths of paper, SLIMTARRA wallpaper consists of many individual sheets of paper: the stencil printer restricts the paper size to an A3 sheet, so each SLIMTARRA design must fit onto a 420 x 297 mm page. This, of course, influences the pattern and appearance of the final design, allowing intricate misshapes and misalignments, giving the SLIMTARRA wallpaper its slightly irregular, charismatic aura and adding the charm of slight failure to each SLIMTARRA. It also offers the possibility to play with turning the sheet, and by doing so, varying and changing the final pattern of the design.
Get an impression of the individual walllpapers in the SLIMTARRA catalogue.
Wallpaper Design above by Zoe van Horen
