TireFlops
Maximum grip and durability. These flipflops are made from recycled tire out-soles…..Called TireFlops, made in Spain and are the comming project on kickstarter. Are ultralight and extra comfort and definatelly upcycled! via
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Cool Lip Balm Container
Though we are a bit sceptical on using petroleum based products on our body, we spotted this tutorial! Spoted on Pinterest at the boginning, this tutorial was found here . So, lets get started!
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Upcycled guitars made from abandoned homes
Wallace Detroit Guitars are making musical lemonade by using disassembled wood from Detroit’s abandoned homes to create upcycled guitars. These guitars are unique not only because of the city’s musical history, or that they’re made from houses that have been abandoned due to thedecline of Detroit, but because the reclaimed wood used to create them…
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Washing Machines Into Beautiful Seats
Baghdadi and Kradokian are two Lebanese designers who insist in green! They have used old washing machine drums compared with the most of traditional designs to make intricately decorated seats with a lot of storage space inside. The designers first tried upcycling when they were invited by gallery owner Rania Choueiri to take part in a recycled…
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Shoes of plastic trash
‘Everything You Buy is Rubbish’ That is the name of a project that links consumerism and waste. Charles Duffy, William Gubbins and Billy Turvey crafted shoes from plastic that was collected along the shores in the UK, including the Thames. The plastic shoes remind people that no matter what you consume, it will eventually have to…
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Coca-cola gives old bottles second lives
As part of its global sustainability program, coca-cola has launched “2ndlives”, a line of 16 innovative caps which can be screwed onto bottles after consumption, transforming them into useful objects, such as paintbrushes, waterguns and pencil sharpeners to encourage consumers to reuse and recycle plastic. The beverage company teamed up with advertising agency Ogilvy &…
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Tin Robots
French Daphné Burge is a found object artist. She collects metal tins and transforms them into robots and a menagerie of metallic animals. These stunning tin toys and robots, are so resemble the look of gorgeous vintage tin toys. The artist is a collector of both old metal tins and old robot and space toys. the merge of these…
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Make bottle as a lamp!
Forgotten bottles, wood residue from neighbor’s door and reuse project by Design and Innovation DeGross. UTREM LUX is the name of sustainable desing, an innovation where old glass bottles are bulbs. UTREM LUX was in Designersblock during desing Festival, in London. via: desing milk
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Dead Media By Noah Scalin.
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…
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Edible Food Containers
Diane Leclair Bisson is giving vegetables and fruits a new purpose, transforming tomatoes into edible containers.The case is to become the container part of the snack rather that toss it in the trash. This project is designed to reflect our wasteful habits, an alternative where the package becomes part of the edible content, fewer packages…
