Recycled Materials
INTERVIEW: Inhabitat Chats with Recycled Wood Designers Scrapile
I have been enamored with environmentally conscious furniture company Scrapile ever since I came across their line of recycled wood furniture during New York Design week years ago. Brooklyn-based
Irish Artist Builds the World’s First 1.4 Billion Euro Home From Shredded Bills
What makes a home worth a million dollars? How about a billion dollars? Irish artist Frank Buckley has taken this question to its logical extreme by building his very own home made from 1.4 billion Euro
Rodrigo Alonso’s N+ew Seats Are Cool Electronic Time Capsules Full of E-Waste
Technology’s fast pace has left in its path mountains of electronic waste, but it has also given way to a new medium for eco-designers to work with. Made from unloved CDs, qwerty keyboards,
Nendo Unveils Collection of Sculptural Objects Made From Japanese Farming Nets
Tokyo-based Nendo has a lovely new collection of sculptural objects made from farming-net, an agricultural mesh ordinarily placed around fruit and vegetables to protect them from harm by wind and animals.
Stylish Wine Rack and Magazine Table Built from Repurposed Coat Hangers
Designer Natalie Sampson seemed to have more than her fair share of hangers on hand, but instead of letting them sit in her closet or trashing them wastefully, she decided to repurpose them into a cool
Rashad Alakbarov Creates Amazing Shadow Cities From Found Objects
Instead of using oil or watercolors to make paintings, artist Rashad Alakbarov uses light, shadows and found objects to create amazing city landscapes on walls. The Azerbaijan-based artist’s
Crotos Recycles Used Metro Tickets and Risque Flyers into Useful Notebooks
Crotos is an Argentine brand that turns all kinds of urban trash paper into useful recycled notebooks. Metro tickets, scrap photocopies, old forms and even risque flyers are sorted and binded into
Groopti’s Recycled Cardboard ECO Blocks Can be Stacked to Form Tables, Chairs, and Benches
Groopti – the website that combines crowdsourcing with bespoke manufacturing – just unveiled its latest cardboard creation, this time from designer Svetlana Kozhenova. Simply called
Gigantic Cardboard Labyrinth Made Entirely From Recycled Materials
Brazilian architect Carlos Teixeira created an incredible labyrinth made entirely from layered recycled cardboard for the 29th International Biennial in Sao Paulo. Shaped like a gigantic maze and
Dodo Lab’s Prototype Series Turns Unwanted Furniture Into Modern Interior Treasures
Dodo Lab is a research project set up by Michaela Robinson and Karen Smart that experiments with different ways of regenerating old and unwanted pieces of furniture anew. In a series they dub simply as
Made in Forest Hills: Bow Ties Recycled From Trash, Inspired by MoMA
If you’re trying to amp up your wardrobe with a unique flair, we might have just the thing. Made in Forest Hills, founded by recycling connoisseur Nicholas Ruiz, is a collection of some of the
Beautiful Artichoke-Shaped Pendant Lamps Made From Recycled Novels, Maps and Magazines
New York-based architect Allison Patrick set herself the goal of creating 30 DIY designs in 30 weeks, and she called it the 30x30x3 Project. Based on her own version of the 3 R’s (Reduce, Reuse, and
Thonet’s VouwWow VW01 is a Flat Pack Recycled Honeycomb Cardboard Chair
Respecting Michelle Thonet‘s original idea of furniture that could easily be disassembled for optimizing space during transportation, Dutch studio Nuy of NOORT created this angular chair made from
Blauvent Recycles Old Paraglider Gear Into Cool New Accessories
Blauvent is a Spain-based company that has created a line of recycled bags and accessories for paraglider pilots, made by paraglider pilots! Each item in Blauvent‘s unique eco-friendly
Reused Bicycle Inner Tubes Woven into Cool Recycled Bedframe Bench
Designer Ivars Gansons has turned an old bed frame and a stack of bicycle inner tubes into a beautiful recycled street bench. Each section was inventively created with reused objects interwoven to form a
Iranian Artist Spells Out ‘Life is Beautiful’ With Kitchen Knives
Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri brought his sharp wit to work in his latest installation, which features the words ‘Life is Beautiful’ formed entirely from kitchen knives stabbed into the wall.
Melanie Kay Delicately Stiches Messages About Alcoholism Into Recycled Beer Cans
Textile artist Melanie Kay highlights drinking abuse issues by intricately stitching stories, messages and images about alcoholism onto old beer cans. Using the recycled aluminum cans as her main vehicle,
Hopeline: Verizon Offers Customers a Way to Fight Domestic Violence by Recycling Their Old Phones
If you have an old cell phone that you’re not quite sure what to do with, why not recycle it and help a fellow human being out at the same time by donating it to Verizon’s HopeLine? Through
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