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 for human beings.” The immortality of upcycling we say! For further information just click on artist’s portfolio.
(via: craftgossip & Christine Mauersberg)
Kristiina Lahde is a Canadian artist who transforms old telephone books into complex architectural structures. Using patterns borrowed from nature, Lahde creates modular sculptures that emulates the structure of a honeycomb, cross-referencing the social behaviours of insects and humans. Altered telephone books it is! Thumbs up for Cristiina! (via: junk culture)
Czech artist Veronika Richterová creates incredible plastic bottle art. The artist, accidentally discovered that plastic bottles could be manipulated by heat. She decided to create a plastic bottle sculpture and call it PET art. Ever since then, plastic bottle art has been a focus for Veronika. She has upcycled thousands of plastic bottles and created hundreds of plastic bottle…
Does it sound Greek to you? It’s because… it is! Yiuco, is a Greek word which means piled up clothes and we are using it because everything started from a closet cleanup. Yiuco popped in the middle of a crisis –mmm, what a coincidence- some time ago. After a good cleanup, a pile of clothes…
Making products that can be quickly disassembled for easier recycling is an important part of green design, and this wooden lamp by Daniel Garcia Sanchez is a good example of this. The parts in the picture above constitute the whole lamp, which requires no glues or screws of any kind to put together. The lamp was…
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…
Junktion Studio is coming from Israel, specifically from Tel Aviv. It is founded by a group of designers with one goal; to give second chance to what the city has already classified as junk. Junktion people take everyday objects out of context, sometimes attaching them to others other times discover new functions for them but…
