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 !
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LeafBed is a patended camp bed made out of cardboard. Studio NOCC are the designers. The concept? Modular units for temporary housing. Have a look on these guys in Niger, in where the field test of LeafBed had a great success. It only needs 4 modules for an adult bed, 3 for a kid’s bed, 2…
If you do not have a clue of what upcycling is, have a look here or maybe here or even here All these items have been made from used materials! What do you thing? Isn’t upcycling outstanding?
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
Packaging og your products used or left turn into nice new items and why not in corporate gifts. See, for example, purses made from tetrapack packaging
Magdalena Godowa is the designer behind makkireQu, a Poland based design studio that takes akes various types of trash, including brightly coloured candy wrappers, and transforms them into fun and funky wearable art pieces and household objects. The series of objects is made entirely from recycled paper, with a bit of wiring for reinforcement as…
This is the GreenLantern, a colorful LED lamp with a built in planter, made out of a new material called Liquid Wood. Designed by Romolo Stanco, developed by NuDe the GreenLantern is available in a variety of colors and patterns and it can evenbe customized via iPhone application. The GreenLantern has two functions; the lamp…
