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 ! via: apartment therapy
SONIC FABRIC, the invention of sound and conceptual artist Alyce Santoro, is a beautiful, audible, versatile textile woven from 50% polyester thread and 50% audiocassette tape recorded with intricate collages of sound. The sound compositions themselves are a kind of SONIC FABRIC too – strange and intricate music made by weaving together unlikely combinations of looped…
Have a closer look on Korean artist work Kim Yong Soo…. See? This is not a painting but installations made out of electronic circuits, semi-conductors, wires, acrylic cement, and yet they are not as clearly visible. Just have a look on the details….. Amazing, isn’t it? (via: randommization)
“We produce trash, are born from trash, and will turn back into trash” is a famous saying by great artist HA Schult. Born on June 24, 1939 in Parchim, Mecklenburg, Schult is a German conceptual artist. He studied art at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf from 1958 to 1961. Since 1996 “Trash People”, Xanten, Paris, Moscow, Beijing, Cairo,…
No, please, do not get offensed from what we wrote but, yes, this sofa is definitely rubbish since it is made from discarded wooden pallets. French Studio- aparte designed “Woodstock”, this piece of furniture that can accommodate up to two people and comes with two small benches tucked underneath one of its sides. Oh yes,…
How can a lamp made out of 20,273,260 dentist cups be a Lilliputian one? Well, quite easily. The Liliputian lamp is a fine example of upcycling. Or else how to transform abundant quantity of waste material into work of art! It is estimated that a dentist uses 12 rinse cups a day which adds up…
Manga Farming planter is really a piece of art. Japanese artist Koshi Kawachi recycles old comic books into miniature vegetable pots. Just plant your seeds onto your favorite book page and wait. Just like Jack and the Beanstalk, your seeds will blossom showing you that recycling’s limit is the sky! Via: inhabitat, Koshi Kawachi
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
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
