700,000+ carpet samples shipped this year, helping designers move closer to choosing the perfect carpet for installation into their projects. Too often, samples are not recycled or reused and so end up in America's landfills. Even with the development of Tryk to reduce the number of samples, physical samples are still important design tools. Ample Sample 2007 challenged designers to "Rethink. Reuse. Upcycle", and repurpose these samples, after their usefulness to a design project, to make a design product. Read more at AmpleSample.net.