Who said that we need bookcases anymore? Get creative with your books. Need an inspiration? Do you love reading books and you already have collected so many that you don’t know what to do with? He used a collection of foreign language dictionaries, medical reference series, geographical studies, and psychology volumes. The outer shell consists of…
Lost? Find your way in this upcycling project. Read more about Ewelina Bocian…… Polish designer Ewelina Bocian created a line of ‘Oldies’ accessories by using pieces of maps, folded in miniature size mounted on brass bases. We have to note that Ewelina used paper from the old industrial plans of polish city streets that someone…
Gugger Petter, born in Denmark creates portraits out of newspaper that she views it as “a diary of our lives”. In that way she managed to transform a fragile material into something more solid and stronger. via: Gugger Petter
It is one of the most beautiful and elegant dresses that I have ever seen, so I decided to share it with you. If you don’t know the material that was made from, I think it is difficult to understand what exactly is. Of course the creation demands a lot patience and work in detail……
New Yorker, Queens based artist Nick Georgiou has come up with a way to transform waste newspapers into artwork. He has created countless numbers of three-dimensional sculptures made out of newspaper trash. The use of color, line and texture in some pieces of them is reminiscent of the works of great expressionist Edvard Munch who…
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…
Slovakian Matej Kren is the artist behind the “Idiom” instalation of books. A spiraling tower of hundreds of stacked books got its stage under the Prague Municipal Library. Idiom is like a huge Jenga tower; books are stacked , forming a colorful rainbow cylinder that reached the celing of the library. A tear shaped…
This is the Printing Dress, a dress made out of paper, designed by Asta Roseway, a senior designer at Microsoft Research and Sheridan Martin Small of Xbox. Everything started with a moto; “you are what you tweet”. The paraphrase of the famous saying “you are what you eat”, has only one to show, the dramatical…
Jennifer Collier is the artist behind these unique recycling projects. Jennifer uses all kinds of papers, magazines, maps, and many more , and recycles them into incredible wrapping for ordinary objects that would otherwise go unnoticed. Her technique consists of “[…] bonding, waxing, trapping and stitching, I produce unusual paper ‘fabrics,’ which are used to…
