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Wine bottle torch

 

A great way to recycle glass bottles and instructions on how to make this here

Edouard Martinet

Enlarged animal replicas made of discarded parts from old bicycles, cars, and mopeds, by French sculptor Edouard Martinet

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Believe in Reicarnation

Junk Mandala for Greenpeace’s advertisement. Simply great, especially for us, faithful believers of garbage reincarnations!

click Here and Here to see the ads in a large scale, they are beautiful!

Sun lounger

A common shopping cart transformed into a “Sun lounger”, by american-born frankfurt-based artist  Mike Bouchet, part of an outdoor furniture series,  presented by Nathalie Karg / Cumulus studios at Design Miami / Basel 2011

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Stefano Bombardieri

Skull sculpture made of  used tires  from artist Stefano Bombardieri, via Galerie 208, Paris

Equal

Sculpture created  from found glass objects by japanese artist  Hideki Kuwajima. The artist is represented by Roentgenwerke art gallery, Tokyo.

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Burda lamp

Self production and assembly light, part of  Burda furniture series, by studio DÅG (designers Tal Mor and Shlomi Azulay) . A pattern poster enables the user to produce a piece of furniture of his own choice, out of any wooden surface , with no use of glue, screws or nails.

via  tel aviv art design

Take me to your Leader

Exciting jewelleries and ritual objects for tribesmen, aliens, inhabitants of future lands and other creatures made by Los Angeles based artist Lauren Machen.

Lauren unconventionally hand-crafts wardrobe and accessory for editorial, video using found material.

Pictures by Maggie West , Wes Klain and Colleen Durkin (courtesy of the artist)

vanishing point

Various installations in the corridors of  a hotel in Greece, part of a low cost renovation made of  the hotel’s  recycled furniture. Designer Werner Maritsas,  stencil from the Donna Martins

Aquanox 2

art toy by artist Phu (or  Phuek)

Kori

a basket by ZPStudio made of  PVC hose and colored zip ties

Plastic is for ever

The Its a Man Made World collection of  jewelry, created by designer  Barbara de Vries and made of plastic  that was found along beaches in the Bahamas

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birds

birds made of  found woods, metals and wires from artist Kathy Boortz, found here + here

Ptolemy Elrington

Ptolemy Elrington creates objects and lamps from re-used materials

 

Bonbon

A series of lamps designed and beautifully pictured by Ana Kraš.  Bonbon lamps ‘ are colourful strings knitted manually over steel wire shape cotton that was used for making prototypes is a leftover from a previous collection of a knitwear company called Ivko-knits.’

(spot the bonbon)