Tag: waste

Tree bark, leaves, natural binding substance. Here’s the materials of GIRIA, a homeware collection by Evelina Kudabaite. Lithuania-based designer wants to pass the sensations of the forest through material, to establish a connection between the user and the object. As...

A massive whale, constructed out of five tons of reclaimed plastic waste, is currently leaping out of a canal in Belgium as part of the 2018 Bruges Triennial. Developed by architecture and design firm STUDIOKCA, the impressive sculpture is designed...

One pop-up exhibit running alongside this year’s Milan Expo is this, the Concept Kitchen 2025, a collaboration between IKEA, IDEO, the Eindhoven University of Technology, and the Ingvar Kamprad Design Center at Lund University, which took 18 months to complete. As the...

These sneakers may look normal, but they in fact have an upper construction made from ocean waste plastic and illegal deep sea fishing net collected by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The shoes were created by adidas, in collaboration with...

Students from Hanyang University, Seoul presented another of our Salone Satellite highlights: the WAS Project (Waste As Source). As you know by now, we’re all about cycling and upcycling, particularly when the two are combined, so of course this project, a...

The Economical Chair by Seungji Mun has been designed to reduce waste, by creating four chairs from one single piece of 4×8 international standard plywood, with no material wasted at all. The simple piece of furniture is made using plywood,...

Given that the theme of DesignMarch 2015 in Reykjavik was “Play!”, we were certainly expecting some fun designs to come out of the Icelandic design festival, and we were proved right!   At the festival, there was a particular focus on the...

Marina Ceccolini studied at the University of Design of San Marino and her final project involved studying the recovery of food waste, and finding ways to turn this into a useful, biodegradable material. The result is AgriDust, which is composed...

Fabriano è un accessorio curioso realizzato da una serie di cestini di carta sovrapposti che una volta riempiti diventano il sacchetto stesso da gettare, facilitando in questo modo l’accumulo e lo smaltimento dei rifiuti cartacei. L’utilizzo e facile ed intuitivo....