This light shade is made from discarded milk cartons, using minimal materials and avoiding adhesives altogether. By creating an interlocking system, this pendant is a beautiful reinvention of common household waste that is both sustainable and stylish.
Tamara Stoddard works in advertising and is always getting in huge billboard vinyl sheets to check color with. So much of it was going in the garbage that she decided to put it to use. The fabric is amazingly durable and waterproof so she began making these stylish bags wallets, wine carriers and passport covers out of it!
This lamp by Basurata Chan is made from discarded foam core board and feathers. Chan used a cutter to construct the fixture and says of her design, "The main aim is to make an easy to made object for everybody, with daily tools and materials... and turn the garbage into poetry." + Basurata Chan
Elena Bescós Ciprián made this fetching jellyfish-shaped lamp out of all recycled materials from her house. The body of the lamp is made out of small plastic cups, and plastic taps, parts of egg cartons, and other miscellaneous plastic pieces were used for the tail.
Arizona State University students in Professor Deborah Schneiderman's Senior Design Studio were asked a series of questions about what purposes a wall truly serves. What does a wall provide? What passes through? What is obstructed? How can one create a modular solution to a worldwide problem while remaining smart and sustainable? As a team, they developed the S3 Sustainable Slotted System. The S3 Sustainable Slotted System, a slotted prefab modular wall system, is a fun, creative way to make interior partitions that people can build themselves. It's designed ... < class="more">
Moisi is a new and fresh contemporary jewelry brand. this is the first colection. With this jewelry, I hope to bring back to life dusty dehydrated mini rosa flowers, leafs, petals, fruits, home decoration perfumed dehydrated plants that lost their scent long time ago, date tree seeds, plum seeds, soya beans, and so on. By enclosing this vegetal lifeless elements with handmade crochet, I wanted to give the jewelry a romantic look. Their eco approache gives hope and a positive feeling.
Eleanor Young found this sad looking worn out chair in the street, took it home, cleaned up the frame, sprayed painted it and set to work on making a new cover. The new design retains the character of the chair, bringing it to life with bold patchwork upholstery, using wool and off cuts of fabric lying around her house.
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Inspired by Pop Artists and recently by Trash Artists, ReCycle by Ossy does its share to bring public awareness to environmental issues through design and art using a self-developed bottle cap weaving technique. Local restaurants collect and supply the studio with otherwise non-recyclable bottle caps on a weekly basis that are then transformed into pixel art icons and portraits. Starting with a 288-bottlecap UK flag, ReCycle by Ossy has grown to develop larger projects including a 1600-bottlecap portrait of US President Barack Obama and a 5000-bottlecap portrait of ... < class="more">
Old tea sets are beautiful but it seems a shame for them to sit and gather dust in the back of your cupboard. Claire Potter takes her teacups and cleverly converts them into little bird feeders, threaded through the garden at different heights like a drift of everlasting flowers.
These lamps are made with envelopes that are used like molds for muffins. The circular pieces with the doubled edges and waves create interesting organic forms.
These bracelets are made from springs inside the clips on broken skirt hangers. Four springs wired together creates a single pin-wheel unit, and each bracelet has five or six of those units. The designer glued a silver bead at the end of the springs for safety and visual interest.
Now you can furnish your house using only PBR shipping pallets! Eduardo Gonçalves' PBR LINE consists of cool and comfortable furniture made using shipping pallets at a very low cost. The sky's the limit! + Eduardo Gonçalves
Life jackets and other flotation devices save lives but are not cheap enough for mass distribution in India. This life jacket is made out of four discarded 2 liter PET bottles. They make perfect buoys due to their air tightness and strength. The bottles are held together by a wearable jacket stitched out of discarded advertising hoarding flex.
This side table by Terry Hritz was inspired by the night her father died of a heart attack when she was 7 while she was working on a puzzle. The legs and aprons are made of actual puzzle pieces with additional parts and the table top fabricated from recycled cardboard.
Can you believe this bar was built in just 24 hours out of all scrap materials? Friends Charles Constantine and Chris Williams took to the streets and grabbed anything they could get their hands on - two end tables make up the main element and are clad in palette wood, while the top and side of the bar are 1/4” plate that they cut from some junked structural beams and cleaned up. As far as the aesthetic, Chris and Charles wanted to refine the materials, but not too much that ... < class="more">
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Lynn Howard and her husband made this glass coffee table using a discarded Austen Healey engine as a base. The toughened sheet of glass cantilevers between the two sections of the red-painted engine.
There are tons of glass bottles thrown away or recycled everyday, and Erin Yoakum has found a way to give some of these discarded containers new life. His salt and pepper shakers - also know as ‘shake’ - use the base and the mouth of reclaimed bottles (the hardest parts to crush when recycling) to make these cool kitchen tools. Only two bottles are used in the creation of each salt and pepper shaker set, and no additional waste is created in their construction.
Frankie Dailey repurposes blown out bike tires into cute sculptures like this doggy, tree and rubber duckie!
A jewelry collection so big it’s ridiculous! These statement pieces, designed by Sallvann Caorn from SBiR Wood, use non-traditional materials and processes to be big, bold and to challenge the definition of jewelry. This collection of unique jewelry layers a combination of various scrap woods and metals that have been donated from building sites and other various furniture scrap resources.
Evan Dublin's awesome Slide Chair was built with reclaimed jungle gym components she found at a New York City salvage yard. The whimsical nature of the chair offers a playful outlook on the classic wing-back chair, providing a secluded area for children of all ages. + Evan Dublin
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