Archive for the ‘Great Green Goods’ Category
July 28th, 2010
From Melbourne, Australia, the jewelry artist (or jewellerey artist) Mainichi creates playful necklaces from recycled upholstery leather and found materials. Many of her necklaces contain movement with hanging, dangling strings and objects. Other pieces consist of layering leathers with vintage Japanese kimono silk fabric or felt with stitched details. Simply gorgeous.
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July 25th, 2010
Probably best known for his work on altered books, Brian Dettmer also works with altered cassettes and video tape. His work is meticulous. For one piece described in the video, he took over 10,000 photos of the work in progress. The result is an animation of the piece coming alive. His [...]
July 20th, 2010
Incredible portraits created from recycled cassette tape by artist, Erika Iris Simmons, aka, iri5. These pieces are from her “Ghost in the Machine” series. Most of the work created by iri5 is made from recycled or found materials. In addition to these true to life portraits, she has some amazing collages using [...]
July 18th, 2010
Lovely rugs made from recycled T-shirts. I’m sure they are nice and cushy and soft to step on… but the nicest part is that you can just throw these into the washing machine and hang them out to dry. Handcrafted by the talented Etsy seller, Green at Heart, aka Laurine. She has [...]
July 9th, 2010
Working on a little peace theme today…. First up:
The peace sign handbag is handmade in Guatemala from recycled vintage textiles. Perfect when you want a unique and original gift. From Gambia, Africa, comes these peace pendants made entirely from leftover scrap wood by local artisans. This is part of a movement that [...]
June 27th, 2010
This etsy artist raids the compost pile and creates these organic works of art from aproximately 2,600 pieces of a Choke Cherry tree. Custom options are available. 81” x 23” x 3”
$5,500.00 at CDeK’s Etsy Shop
June 14th, 2010
Nothing sadder than a lonely glove drifting around the house looking for its long lost “other”. Never fear!! …here are new ways to give a new lease on life as a squirrel, an elephant, a penguin, a donkey, or a bunny. The artist behind these transformations is Miyako Kanamori from Tokyo, [...]
June 13th, 2010
From glass artist Diana Branscome, created from recycled glass beverage bottles comes these funky and elegant art glass bowls. Local restaurants provide Diana with her raw material which she then washes, de-tags, fragments, re-forms, and shapes into works of art. Definitely not your grandma’s candy dish!
$15.00 each at Branscome Glass
June 9th, 2010
From glass artist Diana Branscome, created from recycled glass beverage bottles comes these funky and elegant art glass bowls. Local restaurants provide Diana with her raw material which she then washes, de-tags, fragments, re-forms, and shapes into works of art. Definitely not your grandma’s candy dish!
$15.00 each at Branscome Glass
June 6th, 2010
Absolutely beautiful! Created from reclaimed, recycled bicycle and tractor inner-tubes. Handmade by Berlin artist and creator Jaap Wijnants from Puncture Bags along with furniture designer Patrick Kerti. This was a special project, but check out Punch Bags’ other products like wallets, purses and the elegantly designed pencil case.
Available at Puncture Bags’ Etsy [...]