Last Saturday, Pineider’s Milan boutique transformed into something unexpected: no longer just a space dedicated to paper and writing, but a true creative laboratory, alive with cut-outs, collages and visions taking shape in the hands of those who attended.
The occasion was a special one: Chinese New Year and the beginning of the Year of the Horse, celebrated alongside artist Yansu Wang through a Junk Journalism workshop that brought a new idea of craftsmanship into the boutique.
Junk Journalism Meets Pineider Paper
Junk Journalism is a creative practice that transforms found materials, paper scraps, images and fragments, into layered visual narratives. A language built from simple gestures and surprising results, where every page becomes a personal and unrepeatable story.
For one afternoon, Pineider notebooks stopped being mere writing surfaces and became three-dimensional spaces for experimentation. Through layering, pop-up constructions and collage, the horse, a timeless symbol of energy, freedom and movement, came to life in the hands of each participant, becoming a visual metaphor for creative momentum and new beginnings.
The choice of the Pineider notebook as the centrepiece of the event was no coincidence. The quality of the paper, the result of a manufacturing tradition rooted in 1774, is not simply an aesthetic matter: it is the material foundation that makes every form of expression possible. A paper that welcomes ink, but also collage, layering and the manual gesture. A paper that knows how to become a canvas.
Yansu Wang: Art as Guide and Gift
The workshop was led by Yansu Wang, an artist whose sensibility moves naturally across cultures and visual languages. Her presence gave the day a clear direction: not a course to follow passively, but an invitation to explore, to make mistakes, to build something genuine.
Every participant went home with a unique piece, made of paper, intuition and an afternoon spent playing with their hands and their creativity.
Craftsmanship and Culture: A Natural Intertwining
Chinese New Year, with its symbolic charge of renewal and transformation, offered the perfect setting: a new year celebrated not with a toast, but with a collage. Not with words, but with hands.
Thank you to Yansu Wang for leading the workshop with vision and generosity, and to everyone who chose to share this special beginning of the year with us.