Flat Zoo by Yang:Ripol
Slices of wood are layered in different combinations to make each animal in this toy menagerie by London design studio Yang:Ripol.
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Flat Zoo comprises five pieces of thin ply, printed on both sides, that combine to make an elephant, monkey, penguin, owl, duck, whale and mouse.
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The pieces are held together by a blue rubber band.
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Yang:Ripol was founded last year by Yang and fellow Royal College of Art graduate Claudio Ripol.
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We recently featured another set of wooden toys on Dezeen - an oil rig and tanker by Norwegian studio Permafrost.
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