Italian designer Paola Mirai is doing her best to re-purpose all that tech garbage piling up in her nearby landfill. Cirkuita is a jewelry collection she’s created by taking old gadgets and adding them into her new transparent and light material called orotransparante, upcycling discarded motherboards, chips and obsolete circuitry into rings and bracelets. As […]

We touched on this epic plastic dilemma facing the Planet Earth a couple years back when we covered photographer Chris Jordan’s Midway: Message from the Gyre in 2009, but it doesn’t get any less scary. We have a serious, serious fucked up problem with our consumption of plastics, and if nothing changes we can just […]

As I wound my way high up into the deep, dark Bel Air hills I thought to myself, “can’t these people splurge on a damn street sign or two?” It felt like a foreign country, and in a weird way reminded me of traveling around Costa Rica several years ago, where getting directions anywhere sounded […]

Jeremy Scott never fails to entertain with his designs, always managing to make something quite head-turning with tongue lodged firmly in cheek. The new designs from his Spring 2011 collection really possesses some eye popping touches, such as crushed aluminum cans and vinyl Hefty bags. His innovative concept of turning garbage into clothing utilizes cheap […]

The work of Hamburg-based artist Thorsten Brinkmann is strangely disturbing and unsettling, in a way that you cannot quite put your finger on. By all descriptive accounts, his pieces are fairly innocuous — just people with random objects placed all over them. Yet there’s something sinister in the portraits. Something about substituting body parts with […]