We ‘ve seen many trees made from cans… to cars. Now, we do present a Christmas Tree made of 86 shopping carts! The shopping cart tree symbolizes both generosity and abundance, as well as acknowledging those less fortunate where their whole world may be housed in a cart, designer Anthony Schmitt said about it. This actually…
We are using the actual words as found on Artware Editions No more watering a dead tree, no more fire hazard, no more vacuuming up pine needles well into April. Finally, a truly green Christmas tree: reduce, reuse, recycle. For A Green Holiday Tradition, celebrated artists Fred Tomaselli, Laurie Simmons, Marilyn Minter, Phoebe Washburn, Christopher Daniels,…
Recently submitted for the WEAR is ART competition in Berlin, Margarita Mileva’s Rubber Bands Dress was inspired by Paul Klee and Bauhaus. The dress uses four kilograms, 8.8 pounds, of rubber bands of various colors, lengths and sizes. Approximately 14,235 rubber bands in total, 12,000 for the dress itself, 2,225 for the belt and 100…
Jeanette Ramirez is a Barcelona-based artist, who is experimenting with moss for quite a while. She started by collecting moss around the city, reproducing it using beer and yoghurt, and covering ugly holes in old walls. Ramirez has become fascinating by this smooth green living thing that is very difficult to extract alive and grow, but…
This is Rachel’s Denny Domestic Trophy. It is a piece of her most known work; deer heads covered in cozy cashmere cable knit woolens. Denny works in a variety of materials—wood, plaster, resin, wool, found objects. She is interested in the potential of her materials and how they can be manipulated in unexpected ways. Thus,…
Ok, it is true. Some people miss the excitement of World Cup that took place this past summer. Almost all of us do not miss though the low drone of thousands of vuvuzelas on every tv. Fortunately Matt Blitz and Shaun McCormack hated vuvuzelas before even the World Cup began. Let’s make a difference, not…
Martine Camillieri is a visual artists and author. Pioneer of diversion and recycling, she is encouraging people to practice an ecology game as way of living. Among others, the artist has presented a series of educational installations. Plastic household bottles are getting upcycled and turned into other functional objects, like toys. Giving second chance in…
1.285. That was the number of bright green used uniforms the students of Elisava school in Barcelona received. And since they were design students, they receive a brief as well; what can you do with them? A local waste collection and urban cleaning company, Urbaser, asked from Elisava’s students to design usefull products for the…
The talk of the town? We prefer to call it the talk of the world, since London Design Festival was discussed a lot this year! London Design Festival is a unique annual event of design celebration! But this year was a revelation of newness. Here are some of our favorites we pick up from the web…
Sayaka Kajita Ganz is an artist born in Japan. What she does, is to sellect objects that have been used and discarded. Then she creates sculptures. All made from plastic utensils, toys and metal pieces. Trash art or not, artists prefer to transfrom potential garbage into cool representations of creatures. Artists prefer recycling.
