Justin Gignac, a New York City based artist and entrepreneur, collects rubbish…pieces of New York City’s culture, documenting instances in time as archeologists have done for thousands of years. Gignac began
selling garbage in 2001 after co-workers challenged the importance of packaging design. To prove them
wrong, he set out to find something that no one in their right mind would ever buy, and demonstrate the
value of packaging by making what he found desirable. Looking around the dirty streets of Times Square, garbage was the perfect answer. Nine years later, over 1,300 NYC Garbage cubes have been sold and now
reside in 29 countries around the world.
