What do you do with expired or otherwise unwanted credit cards?
Kristal Romano turns them into wearable art.
We’ve spotted an example of seat cushions upholstered with old belts, and have seen old suits turned into tote bags (here and here), and, now, there’s this:
Suits used as upholstery.
(photo via Good Ideas For You)
What do you think of this upcycling example?
DIY project du jour:
Got milk (crates)? Turn plastic crates into a credenza.
Friend of Unconsumption Will Holman made this one, and he provides a tutorial over on Instructables here, so you can make one of your own.
Find more crate reuse here.
![We’ve come across a couple of creative new uses for old slides and strips of film negatives; here’s a different one, woven by Elizabeth Morisette into art.
Fort Collins [Colorado-] based artist Elizabeth Morisette creates playful objects that re-imagine the ancient arts of weaving and basket making for the 21st century. Using recycled or re-purposed materials, she links the machine made and the handmade, transforming cast-off consumer waste into wondrous forms. (via the Fort Lewis College Art Gallery)
Pictured: Slides and cotton twine woven on a cotton warp, 33” x 40” x 2”, via Morisette on Flickr.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/e79293d5d49df98b95e0c3bb0ea57687/tumblr_mjinb2dK1g1qzv12bo1_400.jpg)
We’ve come across a couple of creative new uses for old slides and strips of film negatives; here’s a different one, woven by Elizabeth Morisette into art.
Fort Collins [Colorado-] based artist Elizabeth Morisette creates playful objects that re-imagine the ancient arts of weaving and basket making for the 21st century. Using recycled or re-purposed materials, she links the machine made and the handmade, transforming cast-off consumer waste into wondrous forms. (via the Fort Lewis College Art Gallery)
Pictured: Slides and cotton twine woven on a cotton warp, 33” x 40” x 2”, via Morisette on Flickr.
DIY Inspiration. Bottle Animals. Recycled water and detergent bottles made into animal lights - but are really cool sculptures on their own.
Pictured: Lights from ABYU lighting.
See also: Earlier Unconsumption posts highlighting two artists’ takes on uses for empty detergent bottles: Bill Culbert’s lights here, and Martine Camillieri’s toy trucks here.
Here at Unconsumption, we love cassette-related repurposing; check out our collection of past posts here.
However, this photo shows two products that were designed specifically for iPhones: An iPhone cover that looks like a cassette tape, and a case that fits it.
So, no, this is not an old cassette tape case repurposed as a phone holder.
That said, an iPhone can be placed vertically in an old cassette tape case. Try it — it works well!
(via TechCrunch)
New Mexico-based artist and environmental educator Nancy Judd uses fashion to engage people in environmental issues.
Nancy’s “Recycle Runway” couture fashion sculptures made from trash include a “faux fur” coat — old cassette tapes woven into the fabric of a thrift store coat. Discarded video tape accents the coat’s collar and cuffs, and material from a thrift store dress was used inside as lining.
Nancy’s “junk mail dress” was one of the first items we featured on Unconsumption (back in 2009!). It’s here.
(Photo by Sandrine Hahn, via Recycle Runway)
See also: Earlier Unconsumption posts on new uses for cassettes here.
Have a chipped plate? Why not turn it into a clock?
Helen Kerrigan made these. (Photo via Auckland Art & Craft Fair.)
More new uses for secondhand and/or broken china can be found here.
DIY project du jour: Turn a broken garden hose into a door mat.
A tutorial, on Mark Kintzel’s blog here, mentions the idea of making something like this with a new “dollar store door mat” as a base. Instead of buying something new, I’d check with my neighbors to see if someone has an old door mat they’d let me reuse.
