Recycle

We’ve had our eye on Chilean designer Rodrigo Alonso for a minute now. The last time his work caught our attention was with his super playful line of jewelry dubed Jocale. And now we’re obsessing over his recycled plastic furniture. He used 100% waste obtained from random electronic devices, toys, drink trays, stadium seats and […]


10 Nov
Nothing too complicated… but I like the creativity

These two products from Chris Kabel caught my eye. The Seam Chair, which is bag tailored to the shape of a chair is filled with sand and put in an oven under extreme pressure. After some baking the sand id taken out leaving a hollow super strong chair made out of only polypropylene (a cheap, […]


10 Nov
Make your butt feel special

Italian design firm Bel & Bel have created a line of chairs manufactured out of recycled Vespa body panels. I dig the aesthetics, but have you seen how expensive vintage Vespas are nowadays? Sure those old school 2-strokes aren’t the most ecological engines on the road, but it’d be cheaper to make chairs out of […]


6 Nov
Leftovers of a car culture

This is a pretty cool exhibit as far as old tire exhibits go. Americans scrap almost 300 million tires a year. There’s potential for a lot of tire exhibits in this country. I’m surprised there aren’t more…tire exhibits, that is. It would be silly to be surprised at high scrap tire figures…silly. I mean, there […]


7 Oct
Evnironmental museum in a mall...ironic?

Your favorite smog-fighting, 501c3 non-profit is back, and this time they’re not sweating balls in Coachella desert heat. They’re in an air-conditioned mall…in Hollywood. The space was donated by the Hollywood & Highland Center. Thanks capitalist pigs! “It’s the first ever environmental theme park,” says Eric Ritz, founder/director of Global Inheritance, the organization behind Environmentaland. […]


If you told me to imagine what a million of anything looked like, chances are you’d be shit out of luck and I’d have a headache. This is where knowing Chris Jordan comes in handy. He takes the guesswork out of visually quantifying quantity with his latest installation, Running the Numbers, which is touring the […]


26 Aug
The Contemporary Art of Art Recycling

Gotta give it up to Swiss company Freitag for doing the recycled fashionables thing long before most of us discovered the inconvenient truth about what we’re doing to this planet. If you’re not familiar, their “raw materials” are old truck tarpaulins, seat belts, bicycle inner tubes and airbags—all stuff that is literally tough as hell—into […]


24 Aug
World’s First Man-Machine Hybrid Motorcycle

Berliner Stefan Gulas has designed the eROCKIT, which he claims to be the world’s first Man-Machine Hybrid Motorcycle. It essentially functions like a regular bicycle, but its power is embellished by its proprietary motor. From the website: Everything about eROCKIT’s general handling comes from the common bicycle. From using the pedals to accelerate and ride […]