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Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionHow can we recycle materials to create functional and innovative pieces of furniture? The creative students of the <a title="Danish Creative Students Inspire People to Recycle and Think Twice at Copenhagen Design Week 2011" href="http://www.designskolenkolding.dk/index.php?id=11" target="_blank">Kolding School of Design</a> and <a title="Danish Creative Students Inspire People to Recycle and Think Twice at Copenhagen Design Week 2011" href="http://en.aarch.dk/" target="_blank">Aarhus School of Architecture</a> are taking on the challenge, certainly proving that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. On show at the <a title="Danish Creative Students Inspire People to Recycle and Think Twice at Copenhagen Design Week 2011" href="http://www.copenhagendesignweek.com/category/design-zone/events/think-twice" target="_blank">Think Twice</a> exhibition at this year's <a title="Danish Creative Students Inspire People to Recycle and Think Twice at Copenhagen Design Week 2011" href="http://www.copenhagendesignweek.com/" target="_blank">Copenhagen Design Week</a>, check out the designs that these young creatives are proposing to remedy the issue of growing, excess waste.1
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionMalene Lund Rasmussen created this funky seat from knitted plastic bags, that restore and add some color to an old, classic chair.2
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionThe Ace of Spades lamp by Anna Karnov Pedersen is made from a carefully arranged set of recycled playing cards.3
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionThis fantastic set of containers designed by Lise PP Staldkarl is made from repurposed bottles and scrap veneer.4
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionBy ironing shopping bags into a colorful sheet, Christina Amelie Jensen created 85 Plastic Bags - a lounge chair for enjoying eco-friendly days and sun bathing at the nearest beach.5
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibition2nd Chandelier by Christian Baastrup is a sleek and modern hanging luminaire made from metal components recycled from an old office chair.6
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionBy using sink cutouts from the production of kitchen countertops, Jeppe S Vestergaard created this handy recycled wooden stool complete with handle.7
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionLaerke Zesach Krabbe created Thrown Out, a tasty and surprisingly strong chair made by upholstered sliced bread baguettes that were left to dry and reinforced with water glass.8
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionScrew’up by students Matilde Nyeland Jorgensen Og and Marie Munk Hartwig is a user-friendly storage system for keeping small objects that usues screwed to the wall glass jars.9
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionStudent Marianne Kasten recycles bike inner tubes and wheels into this fantastic woven light.10
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionJeppe S Vestergaard used FSC sink cutouts from the production of kitchen countertops for developing Hexahedron - a flat pack, modular shelving system made of waste.11
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionColorful Tube Chair by Canna Worsoe shows how attached recycled cardboard tubes can be strong and comfortable if used vertically.12
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionBy recycling various furniture pieces and her own grandma’s chest of drawers, student Helle Schou Pedersen created Granny’s Top Drawer.13
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionRoyal Night by Mia Kragh is a big colorful lamp made from recycled and recyclable aluminum cans and wooden tripod legs that support the shade.14
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionLocally sourced scrap wood boards from ships and sheds in Denmark come together to create this patchwork seat called DOK5611, designed by Anne Sophie Schlutter-Hvelplund and Kerstin Kongsted.15
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionRoll and Repeat is a DIY stool by Line Marie Sorensen made from rolls of junk mail and leaflets, giving a new life to that unwanted paper inside letterboxes.16
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionWinner: Emil Lagoni Valbak created Plunge, an Eames referenced armchair made from an old TV abandoned at Roskilde Festival, suspended on four plungers.17
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionWinner: Left Hanging by Anne Kruse Rasmussen is a table built with scrap wood rescued from a demolished building that playfully defies gravity.18
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionWinner: Martin D. Christensen designed ‘Bulb’ chandelier, an ode to not-used-anymore incandescent light bulbs made from 48 burnt-out lights.19
Copenhagen Design Week 2011's Think Twice students exhibitionBy simply thinking twice, Danish students were able to demonstrate how taking a DIY, fresh and lateral-thinking approach to design, can solve complicated problems with simple solutions.20
