“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is lighting up Portugal’s São João de Deus Street, for the sake of 2016 Saint Peter Festival. Teatro Metaphora, a Madeira-based NGO collected over a hundred landfill-bound washing machines and transformed the drums into beautiful and colorful hanging lights. Dedicated to eco-friendly practices and upcycling The installation has both visual and ecological meaning, and seeks to…
Upcycled street art, trafic signs, tyres, handlebar and other bike parts. by Kalbut Design via
Aurora Robson is an artist and an environmental activist. Discarded plastic and recycled cut- up bottles are the main matterials of her artwork. Robson’s work raises awareness about plastic waste, which often ends up in the oceans. She want her art to help people recognize the power they have to make positive choices as consumers…
Crea-re Studio used wooden clothespins, actually re-used wooden clothespins, in order to design these rustic lamps. The wooden lamp shades are made from a metalic cylinder frame complete with various wired rows. Each row is covered with a layer of wooden clothespins, creating this way a beautiful fanned out look. Light is spreading through the spaces…
While reading these lines, I thought that I have nothing to refrase. Taken from Maezm Studio “RE_LOVE’ was created in two processes of work under the same title. For these processes, we collected old furniture and clothes etc, which we actually used, and we intend to propose method to love these things again. To love…
“Os Gemeos”; this is how twin brothers artists from Brazil are known together. Octavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, brought colorfoul life into six industrial silos on Granville Island in Vancouver. Twin brothers, took almost a whole month to finish this colossal mural. As a part of Vancouver Bienalle, the mural depicts six vividly colored 70 foot (23…
Donna McCullough is an artist who creates sculptural dresses out of upcycing. Named as “The Drill Team”, all dresses are made out of gas and oil cans , embelished on wire and found objects, with provocativebut still soft cut outs. As she sais: “I like the duplicitous nature of steel which can be manipulated to…
It doesnt smell like flowers, but it doeas smell like upcycling. Hillary Coe presents an original upcycling piece of art. Hillary Coe is an artist who transforms empty grafiti cans into sculptural bouquets. Discarted paint cans are processed by the artist and then getting their upcycling blossom! Each piece of sculpture bouquet is unique and…
Recycled shadow’ is an installation undertaken by spanish architectural team Meva. The artists fold hundreds of newspaper pages into paper windmills, which they then hang on nylon mesh into suspended sculptures that provide shade to passersby underneath. This installation is a way to productively use old newspapers that otherwise would be discarded and ultimately end…
“Scarfty” lamp is been designed by the ukranian design studio decorkuznetsov. The lamps are sweater like knits made out of peruvian wool, wrapped around a steel ball structure. Each of the lights are knit with a variety of colors which give a comforting warm interior lighting effect. What is clever-cute to Scarfty is that most lamps…
