Claire is from Brighton! Claire owns this blog in where we found this tutorial. And we loved it! Please have a look on how Claire is upcycling lego’s into magnets and visit her site to see how she is developing them into necklace! 1. First, gather all your tools and supplies together. Spray paint, super glue, lego…
Supplies: All you need is an empty soda can and a pair of everyday scissors . Wash the remains inside with some water. Cut the top of the can , all around the metal surface, close to the edge. Cut 16 strips , that should be even. To manage this, try to cut in the…
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…
Do you have crayons? You can have a great bracelet too. Iris Tsante is the creator of unique accessories made from destroyed pencil crayons that she uses in short or longer sizes for her jewelry. In that way Iris also makes necklaces and other pieces in the same fashion. It is an easy and non expensive…
This is Twisted Pencil designed by Giha Woo. Twisted Pencil is a pencil vase made out of….pencils…. Using the writing utensil as its structural component the designer is trying to promote new aesthetics, considering the morphology of objects around us. For us, is food for thought; what to do with old pencils! (via: junkculture &…
Persona, the new project between art and fashion by Jeffrey Wang, recycles Levi’s into sculptures to wear. Wang, founder and director of the creative platform Blanq World, manages to put together statuary garments joined together with simple safety pins. The Korean artist carves five pieces of garment into a wavy sculpture. Shapes look like to…
Julia Barello is an artist who uses both dyed xray film and MRI film to create installations and jewelries. Using the upcycling mentality, Julia is turning old films into new objects. A vibrant, alive, unique work. As the artist says, “It’s important to me that they are pictures of people. The film is a metaphor…
“Marie Coquine” is the name of the standing lamp designed by Philippe Starck for Baccarat. The lamp incoporates a 12-light zénith chandelier into an umbrella and a chestnut wood handle etending from its base. It is suspended at one end of a pole extended on a weel steel tripod, from the other end end of…
All that glitters is not gold…..Is discarded plastic bottles! Royal College of Art student Florie Salnot collaborated with Sandblast, a London-based nonprofit that works with the Saharawis of Algeria, to find a creative yet economic solution to raise awareness about their cultural displacement. The low-cost, low-energy production process requires only hot sand, a nail board…
The Recycled Wardrobe by RJ Dollen, is a collection of high fashioned ….trash! Or else, how to promote the 3R’s values in a creative and stylish way. RJ Dollen is a photographer from Colorado and has swapped trash into sexy and high class fashion. As he claims “… we’re putting the call out to you, the creative…
