recycled design
Natalie Sampson’s Funky Spiked Lamp is Made of 100 Toilet Brushes
We’ve featured design student Natalie Sampson‘s cool and quirky lamps before and she recently sent us another to add to the list – this spiky fixture made of 100 toilet brushes! Sampson
NUBE Lights Turns Plastic Bags into Illuminated Modern Art
NUBE lights may look like modern art at first glance but they’re actually made out of everyday, discarded materials. Each one is made from anywhere from 10 to nearly 100 reclaimed plastic bags
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
Portuguese Collective Blindesign and Female Inmates Create Objects from Recycled Milk Cartons
Designed by Blindesign, a Portuguese collective that understands design as a tool capable of social innovation, this crumpled silver wallet is made from recycled milk cartons. The milk cartons are either
Join Przetwory Design for the 2011 Recycles Festival in Warsaw!
Przetwory Design is inviting artists, designers and crafters from around the world to participate in the 6th annual Recycles Festival at the Soho Factory Complex in Warsaw. Taking place between the 9th
Parvez Taj Turns Reclaimed Wood Slats into Unique Pieces of Eco Art
Canadian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Parvez Taj takes reclaimed Douglas Fir harvested from old buildings throughout Southern California and turns them into unique eco paintings. Taj hand selects each
The World’s Largest Wooden Residential Dome is the Green Dome in Long Island
Kevin Shea’s off the map Long Island Green Dome is the ultimate sight to gawk at for any sustainable design junkie. At 45 feet high, it is the largest residential geodesic dome in the world and
EFE-PE’s Firefly Garden is a Verdant Display of Recycled Bottle Pods
Landscape architects EFE-PE recently sent us their delightful “Firefly Garden”, which they envisioned as a polka-dotted “carpet” of funky green pods. The actual pods were made out
Graveyard Made From 1000 Old SurfBoards Calls for a Greener Surfing Industry
Chris Anderson, a graphic design student from Wollongong, is collecting 1000 old and broken surfboards to create a “Surfboard Graveyard” as an awareness campaign about the unsustainable
VIDEO: Dwell Editor-in-Chief Sam Grawe Talks Reclaiming Design
In 2007, Inhabitat put together an event about recycling and reuse in design, called Reclaiming Design. This event at HauteGREEN in New York was a big success, thanks to the thought-provoking design and
Maglight Transforms Magazines Into a Stained Glass-Like Table Lamp
Designer Jurg Grassl has found a way to recycle our old magazines in an illuminating way. A finalist in our Bright Ideas Lighting Design Competition, Grassl’s lamp is a simple construction that uses
Art of Board Shows Off Its Skate Decks Repurposed into Rad Wall Tiles at ICFF
Attention all skaters – how many of you have damaged your skateboards beyond repair after unsuccessfully trying to nail a rail or grab some air? Before you go throwing your board into landfill,
StilNovoDesign Makes Fresh Furnishings Out of Old Oak Wine Barrels
StilNovoDesign uses recycled oak wine barrels to make distinctive green furniture and home décor creations. The secret? Using quality materials and combining craftsmanship with modern day style. Once
Lattice: A Recycled Eco Art Installation That Sprouts and Grows
Artist Jeff Schmuki uses common materials and repurposes them into art that comments on the real costs of over-consumption. Lattice is an undulating soft sculpture composed of nylon fabric tubes stuffed
Bubble Chandelier is an Effervescent Light Fixture Made from Recycled Soda Bottles
The Bubble Chandelier is an effervescent eco-friendly light constructed out of 2 liter soda bottles. Designed by Shaun Kasperbauer, the fixture is named for the shadows it casts which mimic the shape of
fLume: Discarded Christmas Trees Transformed Into Rustic Lamps
While we like to think that Christmas trees go to a better place when they’re done filling us with the holiday spirit, the truth is that they either sit on sidewalks rotting or end up in the chipper
Super Intricate Sheep Sculpture Made Out of Old Spark Plugs
Here’s a case of designers behaving baaaaa-dly. James Corbett from Australia makes superbly detailed sculptures mostly out of vintage old car parts. This one, a cute but not cuddly sheep made of
Perpetual Calendar Made of Salvaged Timber Doubles as Modern Wall Art
The Caluouette perpetual calendar is a marriage of two contrasting materials – a salvaged timber beam and colorful transparent acrylic tags. The user can mark the acrylic tags as desired with notes
Clever Fan Lamp is a Breath of Fresh Air for Your Decor
We’re big fans of this rather clever lime green lamp and we think you can see why. Conant Lighting, known for its ability to take defunct objects and transform them into extraordinary eco lighting,
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