Shredder Table

With the amount of junk mail we all receive on a daily basis, I'm sure a coffee table with a built-in hand-crank shredder could become quite handy. Not only would you save yourself a trip to the office shredder, you could marvel at the sheer amount of colorful, recyclable waste produced by your mailbox. Via Design Sponge.

Alarming in more ways than one

Barbara Hashimoto saved and hand-shredded the junk mail that came to her studio as an artist-in-residence at BauerLatoza in Chicago for one year. The result of this collection is an alarming 3,0000-square-foot mountain range of shredded paper that dominates the storefront space of a building in the Chicago Arts District.

Think about this the next time you propose a direct-mail piece for your clients, designers: