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Toilet Paper Just Got Crafty Thanks to Beci Orpin

The craft mastermind teams up with socially conscious toilet paper company Who Gives A Crap.
You can turn this toilet roll wrapper into a fortune teller. All images courtesy of Who Gives A Crap

Everything Beci Orpin touches turns into rainbow. Even the humble toilet roll. The illustrator, author and Arro art director has teamed up with Who Gives A Crap, a socially conscious toilet paper company run by Melbourne guys Simon Griffiths, Danny Alexander and Jehan Ratnatunga. The limited edition collaboration, released today, is as easy on the eye as it is soft on the behind.

Beci has designed four candy-coloured toilet roll wrappers that you’ll want to display in your bathroom. A fifth wrapper features instructions on how to turn the designs into craft projects—a hanging mobile, fortune teller, glasses, party ball ornaments and an envelope.

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Simon Griffiths and Beci Orpin

Not only does Who Gives A Crap add a layer of creativity to a previously utilitarian product, the sustainable venture also give back to third world communities. Who Gives A Crap contributes 50% of all their profits to building toilets in the developing world. "I started Who Gives A Crap because 2.5 billion people don’t have access to a clean toilet,” Simon tells The Creators Project. “That’s roughly 40% of the global population, and it means that diarrhoea related diseases fill over half of sub-Saharan African hospital beds and kill 1,400 children under five-years-old every day."

The five roll designs available

The Beci Orpin rolls are available exclusively at Who Gives A Crap.

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