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A red paper shredder is built into a wire animal cage with a blue plastic base. A council tax bill from the “London Borough of Hackney” is fed into the top, with shredded strips of paper filling the bottom of the cage.

Tom Ballhatchet

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Will Hudson
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Date
23 April 2007

Hamster Shredder is a genius product designed to shred documents using the hamsters wheel.

Tom has recently been exhibiting this piece in Milan, both with the British Council and with fellow St. Martins’ Students in ‘Art School’, stand A15 at Satellite, part of the Salone Del Mobile.

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Will Hudson

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Will is co-founder of It’s Nice That. Once one of the main contributors to the site, he stepped back from writing as the business expanded. He currently works across It’s Nice That, Creative Lives in Progress and If You Could Jobs.

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