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…
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…
We found it on Recyclart.org and is amazing indeed! And now, read carefully… Here, you can found instructions on how to turn your old washing mashine into a chair. If you are relly good with your hands, you can follow the video or image instructions nad build your own chair from your broken washing…
Sep Verboom is a Belgian designer who partnered with social environmentalist Hon. Nida Cabrera to innovate the waste management in Cebu City. The designer purchased old fans from Philippine junkshops and combined with traditional weavings by local craftsmen. The collection is called Fantasized, is launching now at the Milan Furniture Fair with a pre-order campaign on INDIEGOGO. via
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…
Makaon, is a Japanese artist who has created an amazing collection of famous pop culture characters.Cartoon heroes and animal sculptures out of recycled cans of beer and soda, are some of the many imaginative creations of the artist. You can view more unique crafts by Makaon on the artist’s website or craft blog. via
We have already seen people using aluminum cans in many ways and now it’s time to see another one, the “AluMosaics art”. Well, Jeff Ivanhoe present us can mosaics made from countless aluminum cans. In that way we have a different kind of art inspired by trash!!! Via : alumosaics.com – lostateminor.com
Italian designer Luigi Semeraro created SPARVAR, a series of armchairs and pouf made out of empty graffiti spray cans. Spavar is constructed by bonding over 200 empty cans together and securing the form between two painted wood sides. Spavar was recently presented at the Milan Design Week 2011 and it is self produced, thus in limited edition! What…
We ‘ve seen many trees made from cans… to cars. Now, we do present a Christmas Tree made of 86 shopping carts! The shopping cart tree symbolizes both generosity and abundance, as well as acknowledging those less fortunate where their whole world may be housed in a cart, designer Anthony Schmitt said about it. This actually…
