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VOID FILL

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Void Fill 01
Black spray paint on AIR-plus air pillow
by STOROpack, 203 x 127 mm.

The ERB’s peculiar print design creates occasional spaces between articles. Issue One filled some of those voids with Void Fills, an ongoing project of B-PLOT studio.

« Void Fill is an industry term. In supply chain logistical worlds, ‘void fill’ refers to packing materials that occupy empty spaces around products: the stuff between the corrugated shipping box and its contents. » Inflated air pillows are « the lightest void fill material on the market ».

From where does the packaged air come? Find the digital version of this inquiry into multinational packaging systems, « inflated fictions of transparency », desire and fulfillment here: https://www.fulfillment.travel/void-fill.

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