Pininfarina and InkPoster presented the Duna at Milan Design Week inside the Reflex showroom, and what they brought is the largest color ePaper art poster ever made, an A1 format piece extending to over one meter wide that opens a conversation about wall art and architectural interiors that has very little to do with screens and considerably more to do with what a printed surface can now do.
The display technology comes from PocketBook, the Swiss company behind the InkPoster brand with nearly two decades of experience in electronic paper. InkPoster Duna is built around an E-Ink Spectra 6 panel that produces images through millions of tiny ink capsules physically rearranging to create color and detail rather than projecting light through a backlit surface, which is why the poster reads like a print, responds to ambient light the way a print does, produces no glare, no blue light, no heat, and no flicker, and remains fully visible even when the device is powered off. Energy is consumed only when the image changes, a single charge lasts up to a year, and the wireless design means the poster hangs without cables or outlets.
Pininfarina designed the frame with fluid aerodynamic lines, a visually minimal edge, and an Alcantara covering that references high-end automotive interiors. At Milan Design Week the frame was presented in light, dark, and brown finishes, each of which shifts the object’s register in a room considerably.
The poster connects to the InkPoster app, which gives access to thousands of curated artworks. The Pininfarina collaboration adds an exclusive selection of design sketches from the studio’s archives that do not exist in this format anywhere else. Nicola Girotti, Head of Product Design at Pininfarina, has described InkPoster Duna as a design element that integrates into sophisticated architectural spaces rather than simply occupying wall space within them.
