Tag: upcycled materials

Tiny trash homes create humanity with salvaged waste

Artist Gregory Kloehn veered off course from a career creating large-scale sculptures, focusing his talents on making tiny buildings from...

Dancing in combat boots, Jerusalem style

A trio of break-dancing Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers strutted their stuff in a video uploaded to Facebook on Thursday....

Studio Sfog in Tel Aviv Makes Recycling an Art Form

We love the creative eco design coming out of Tel Aviv. Israel faces nationwide challenges of mismanaged waste and...

Israeli Poet Nitzan Mintz Makes Sustainable Art Stick To The Streets

Israeli street artist Nitzan Mintz writes her poems on the streets of Tel Aviv, using disregarded materials she collects...

Garbage Art Ideas from Mary Ellen Croteau

Plastic bottle cap picture by Mary Ellen Croteau The caps are synthetic artifacts, plastic products that usually aren't (and more often,...

H&M to Launch the First Global Clothes Recycling Venture

Swedish retail company H&M recently announced an upcoming clothes recycling venture, starting in February 2013. The fashion recycling campaign...

Design School Partners with Wineries to Give Wooden Barrels a Second Life

I used to be a wine barrel... and now I'm a chess board. Wine companies worldwide may be trying...

Recycled Furniture from Middle East Rugs and Doors

Recycled furniture by Israeli designer Naama Futerman. She gives disposed objects a second life. If all the products that we...

Recycled Furniture by Lebanon’s Niloufar Afnan

Long live the queen, if she can manage to sit on Niloufar Afnan's recycled 'Royal Stool'. At this year's New...

Ugly Plastic Window Shutters Become Chic, Minimalist Furniture Pieces

These plastic window shutters by Kulla Industrial Design can still be used to sit on. Finding new uses for old...

Light Bulb Terrarium and 5 New Uses For Old Light Bulbs

Just because incandescent light bulbs are less energy efficient than CFLs doesn't mean you need to toss them.  Upcycle...

Aya Kaya’s Online Upcycling Tutorial For Turning T-Shirts Into Bags

Before grabbing another polluting plastic bag, learn how to easily make a cloth bag out of items you already...