This seems to be a “recycled cardboard week”! So, just after the Cardboard City we have to present you these stunning furnitures made from scrap cardboard tubes. Industrial designers Antonela Dada y Bruno Sala discovered the potential that free, raw materials like cardboard can lend to their design process and products, during their studies at Buenos…
After the container city we have to present you this life size cardboard city, created by Oupas Design in Portugal. Architects from Oupas Design cconstructed Cardboardivity to raise awareness about using less resources. The city is completed with buildings,a wind tirbine, an airplane, cars and trees. You can find it at the 250sq.m Empty Room at Ivity…
Designed by Finn Stone, these amazing lego stilettos will be available this spring in only 12 pieces. The artist is slapping together Lego bricks on an old pair of stilettos. Wearable or not , congratulations on this upcycling masterpiece Mr Finn Stone! (via: greendiary & randommization)
It is 25 foot long and made out of 300 recycled inter meshing beer bottles. You will find it at the Philadelphia International Airport’s Terminal A-West. Rick Stanley and his son, Vince from Stanley Clockworks were called to build this recycled clock and decorate the terminal’s area until the end of August. Equipped with three separate dials…
It looks like an ordinary drum set. But it is not! Helmut Smits is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. What he does is to transform mundane cans and other types of packaging into all types of grin-inducing art installations. Have a look on this instalation; it’s title is Nascar and it is…
Yarnbombing or graffiti knitting or guerrilla knitting is a type of street art which employs colorful knitted cloths rather than paints or other matterials. Artist Juliana Santacruz Herrera decided to go with this technique and fill portholes and other cracks of Paris’s streets! Streets of Paris has been repaired with colorful yarns and crochet fabrics. Even thoufh this is…
Greenhouse by Joost opened its doors few weeks ago at Cambells Cove, Sydney and it will stay there until end of March. After that, a world tour will begin for this temporary restaurant. Got confused? Please don’t! Greenhouse is a restaurant designed by Joost Bakker promoting sustainable construction techniques and operational processes. Actually, is a waste…
Designer Kieran Ball is from Australia. Recently he was awarded Gold in the 2010 SA DIA (Design Institute of Australia) Awards for his sustainable furniture piece, the Tannin Lounger chair which is crafted out of old barrels. Recycled wine barrel staves are attached on a steel frame. The chair has been made keeping in mind the ultimate comfort…
Tough day in the office? Relax, don’t do it….. Escape…..Enjoy a moment at your office pond….. If that sounded right in your ears, then you work for Bloomberg London….. Putting their employees’ well-being first, Bloomberg‘s London office wanted to give their workers a place to easily escape and relax, if even just for a moment. Instead…
