Artist Noah Scalin created “Dead Media” an installation made of 497 VHS videotapes. Its size is approximately 20 feet long by 9 feet wide and resembles the skull in Holbein’s The Ambassadors if viewed from a specific point to reconstitute the image. The installation will be on display at theTCC Visual Arts Centerin Portsmouth,Virginia from…
Miwa Koizumi wanted some pets, so she created them! With a combination of heat guns, cutting utensils and soldering irons she created jelly-fish animals from discarded liquid containers made from PET (polyethylene terephthalate). This work of art proves that any material can take any shape we want with limitless possibilities and as Miwa Koizumi proves…
The artist Caitlind Brown created CLOUD, a large-scale interactive installation for the arts festival Nuit Blanche in Calgary. The installation was made out of 6,000 donated burnt out light bulbs and the viewer is encouraged to wander through a rain of pull strings switching on and off lights. By activating CLOUD’s animating light bulbs the…
The 2008 Coldcuts collection by Laurence Brabant takes recycled wine bottles and turns them into serving ware and glasses. These designs from French designer, Laurence Brabant use old bottles combined with cork and beech wood. Those utensils look cool and this is a creative use of design and recycling, or in other words Upcycling ! via: apartment therapy
The Atenistas team, an open civil group, took an empty plot in Pagrati, Athens, which had been left in complete abandonment and in a day time transformed it into a beautiful little park. The site was cleaned, new plants were planted , the walls around stained and painted and formed benches, play areas and walkways…
Designer and urban archeologist Guilhem de Castelbajac’s with his project OFF DUTY NO MORE has immortalized the iconic lights of Taxi Signs . The re-purposing of these lights as interior lamps lends a second life to a utilitarian design that is slowly being rendered obsolete and all too overlooked. Each of the lamps have been…
SONIC FABRIC, the invention of sound and conceptual artist Alyce Santoro, is a beautiful, audible, versatile textile woven from 50% polyester thread and 50% audiocassette tape recorded with intricate collages of sound. The sound compositions themselves are a kind of SONIC FABRIC too – strange and intricate music made by weaving together unlikely combinations of looped…
If we were saying that you could create a dress from A3 size paper, would you believe that it could happen? The logical answer is “no” and that would be our answer too, but there is a surprise… Just take a look and you will understand what we mean… Art Director Matthew Brodie and his…
Normally, you would discard them…. But, from now on, you will have a second thought on it. Bottle caps are becoming your new diamonds! So, Yoav Kotik has succeeded to have a double benefit. On the one had he protects the environment and on the other hand he creates new jewelries. Great idea… Join it……
Lost? Find your way in this upcycling project. Read more about Ewelina Bocian…… Polish designer Ewelina Bocian created a line of ‘Oldies’ accessories by using pieces of maps, folded in miniature size mounted on brass bases. We have to note that Ewelina used paper from the old industrial plans of polish city streets that someone…
