Paper Tales from Haiti

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By Hend Seif El Din

Paper Tales from Haiti is a collection of animals for home decoration, made in papier-mâché with comics stripes and literary texts, designed by Giulio Vinaccia and Regine Fabiousan Haitian designer,and produced by the Haitian group Caribbean Crafts (Port-au-Prince, about 400 craftsmen).

The basic idea of Paper Tales is to create objects that could be “read” like a cartoon and at the same time stimulated the imagination in the children’s rooms.


After having found tons of old French and American comics, thrown in a garbage dump in Port aux Prince, we decided to recycle this paper, creating all kinds of animals. 
Each piece is unique, as it is made entirely by hand from a series of comic books ..

Founded in 1990 Caribbean Crafts promotes employment in Haiti by training unskilled, but highly gifted craftspeople. Under the role of Magalie Dresse, Haitian industrial engineer from 2006 started to work with Haitian and international designers, developingnew market outlets and product lines made from recycled materials like steel from used steel drums, paper from cement bags, glue from the starch of locally grown manioc, plastic bottles and gallon containers .

Giulio Vinaccia
Product Designer, work from many years using the Design as a Development Tool in community planning, local development and craft production, in developing countries, which has become a figure of international reference. Is senior consultant for different UN agencies (UNDP, UNIDO.WTC ITC), governments (Brazil, Spain, Iceland, Haiti ) and international organizations and institutions.
In 2012 was the first designer invited as a speaker at the International Economic Forum of Alpabch (Austria).

Regine Fabious is a well know Haitian designer, with a wonderful experience in development of crafts & furniture.
Recently she has collaborated with Donna Karan in the creation of the HAITI – Urban Zhen collection.