A failed attempt taught me an important lesson: the right tool can change everything. My search for a better way would soon lead me to a craftsman whose knowledge had been passed down for centuries.
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Learning from Failure
A small prototype was finally beginning to look like a surfboard. But turning a flat outline into smooth, three-dimensional curves was another challenge entirely. With no clear answer to guide me, I decided to try something—and learned an important lesson from failure.
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Searching for the Right Material
Turning a cardboard lattice into a surfboard was not as simple as I had imagined. Wood, cork, pumice, sawdust... I tried one idea after another, and each failure led me a little closer to an unexpected solution.
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Building a Surfboard Frame from Cardboard
Could cardboard really become the internal frame of a surfboard? By combining careful experiments with Yotsume-ami, a traditional Japanese weaving technique, an unexpected structure slowly begins to take shape.
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What Cardboard Taught Me
What began as a simple experiment with cardboard led me to an unexpected discovery—one that connected a surfboard, a honeycomb, and the wisdom hidden in traditional bamboo weaving.
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Why I Started Designing a Surfboard
Every design begins with a question. This is the story of the first step that led to GIUNGISCIO®.
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