Shutter Rugs: Karastan Challenges Students to Rug Photo Contest

After 80 years selling rugs, innovation can be difficult, but Karastan is looking to make a statement with its new marketing campaign (cleverly themed “Make a Statement”), and so they challenged students at a handful of art and photography schools nationwide to get out their cameras and start snapping rugs—Karastan rugs, of course, in three specified settings: a residential/home environment, a public place, and an “American” setting. While the scare quotes around “American” seem an invitation to hijinks, the students were up to the task, and the Karastan Rug-ged America Photo Contest is now asking you to help choose the winners.