Vancouver-based artist Brian Jungen created this domed ‘turtle shell’ out of industrial waste and recycling bins. In past works Brian has used plastic chairs, hockey equipment, and plastic food trays.
(via Juxtapoz Magazine - “Carapace,” Recycling Bin Art by Brian Junger | Current)
German designers Yanik Balzer and Max Kuwertz, who recently sent us an upcycling project in which they transformed a Euro pallet into a set of three chairs “with almost no waste of material.”
(via From Shipping to Seating: Balzer Kuwertz’s Upcycled Pallet Chairs - Core77)
Needless to say, pallet reuse is a favorite notion at Uncon, see here.
![A show that turns artists’ “scraps and discards” into fresh works of art:
For What is Yours is Mine, Doug Weathersby — a/k/a Environmental Services — [visited other artists] and learned about … their practice, photographically documented their spaces and collected scraps and discards from the studio….
Regardless of what he was given, Weathersby abided by one rule: he must use everything that he recovered from each studio in What is Yours is Mine.
Using this unwanted detritus, including components of failed art works, Weathersby composed bizarre sculptures, keeping in mind the nature of each artist’s practice as he worked.
A large dumpster, ES Art Storage, was fabricated on site. It is both constructed from and contains remaining materials and works that “didn’t make the cut.”
(via DODGE gallery)
More on this show at Hyperallergic.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/1eefdfa88df0f30531be3c188b007942/tumblr_mi0jevmjWu1qzv12bo2_r1_400.jpg)
A show that turns artists’ “scraps and discards” into fresh works of art:
For What is Yours is Mine, Doug Weathersby — a/k/a Environmental Services — [visited other artists] and learned about … their practice, photographically documented their spaces and collected scraps and discards from the studio….
Regardless of what he was given, Weathersby abided by one rule: he must use everything that he recovered from each studio in What is Yours is Mine.
Using this unwanted detritus, including components of failed art works, Weathersby composed bizarre sculptures, keeping in mind the nature of each artist’s practice as he worked.
A large dumpster, ES Art Storage, was fabricated on site. It is both constructed from and contains remaining materials and works that “didn’t make the cut.”
(via DODGE gallery)
More on this show at Hyperallergic.
Stickers + empty cartons = fire trucks!
Why not turn packaging into simple toys?
Reusable stickers, printed on 100% recycled, uncoated paper, via Box Play for Kids, mentioned previously on Unconsumption here.
Consider the stuff of our everyday lives — the clothes, the sheets, the toys and games. It’s essential for a time, but inevitably, eventually, it all gets trashed — or donated.
And that donation process can seem a bit like magic. We drop off our used stuff, and the items disappear — or so we think.
But what truly becomes of it? Where does it go? And what does it look like?
Freelance photographer Wesley Law wanted to know. So when a friend told him about St. Louis’ Goodwill Outlet store — one of several throughout the country that serve as liquidation centers for Goodwill retail stores — Law was intent on finding a way inside.
It took him nine months. And when he finally got access, he found an awesome panorama — thousands of items leftover from Goodwill stores around the country, crammed together in bales as large as 5 feet tall by 7 feet wide, awaiting transport to new destinations.
(via Are You Done With That? Photographing The Results Of Your Good Will : The Picture Show : NPR)
Stools incorporating “rejected leather,” among the projects from Pepe Heykoop (earlier mention here):
Leather Loops is another reaction to waste leather. Fully rejected skins, faded by sunlight or with too many damages are used in this project. Like an l.p. the leather tops can easily be swapped within the family of frames.
(via www.pepeheykoop.nl)
It’s wine o’clock somewhere, which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find.
Today’s item: Wine bottles turned into wind chimes.
(via GroovyGreenGlass on Etsy)
More in Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series can be found here.
Stockholm 2013: Swedish designers Claesson Koivisto Rune used recycled aluminium to create these small and colourful pendant lamps for Swedish lighting brand Wästberg.
(via dezeen)
“These jeans are made of garbage.”
According to Levi’s:
Levi’s Waste<Less jeans are the result of our latest design innovation. Each piece features a minimum of 20% post consumer recycled content, from an average of 8 plastic bottles. During the Spring of 2013, we’ll repurpose over 3.5 million recycled pet plastic bottles…and this is just the beginning. We’re committed to making more Waste<Less products in seasons to come to help minimize impact on our planet.
Earlier Unconsumption noted another jeans brand seeking to use recycled plastic content in its products, here.
From the unconventional and repurposed hotel rooms file.
This time, it’s a “pop-up hotel” that makes use of shipping containers. Currently docked in Antwerp, these lodgings are anything but basic.
The hotel, aptly named, Sleeping Around, claims to employ only ecologically responsible materials.
From their website:
Our pop-up hotel offers […] a compact yet luxurious hotel room, equipped with all the mod cons: a box-spring bed, rain shower, iPod docking station and air conditioning – all contained in a 20ft recycled sea container.
More over at Contained, the “all things container” Tumblr of our own Molly Block, here.
As you burrow back into your cold-weather clothes, you’re probably taking stock of your sweater supply. Here’s an option for the ones that are too shrunken or moth-eaten to donate: Turn them into fingerless mittens.
How to instructions here: Recycled Craft: Fingerless Mittens | Whole Living
Latex (kitchen/cleaning) gloves turned into jewelry, by Min-Ji Cho.
(spotted on comeunagazzaladra)
Another example — a glove-necklace made by Margherita Marchioni — can be found here.
