Tag: recycling
Spanish creative agency Lola Madrid would like to make the most ecologically friendly bike possible, and to do so, they’ve turned to an unlikely source: cars. In the above video, a frame is fashioned from recycled metal, turn signals become reflective lights, a transmission belt becomes a chain, and upholstery gets turned into seat and […]
As part of the 2013 FIGMENT art festival happening on Governors Island in June, architects Jason Klimoski and Lesley Chang will create a pavilion from over 53,000 plastic bottles–the number that New Yorkers throw away every hour. The structure, in both its materials and its visual style, is a slightly less elegant dead ringer for […]
Here’s the staff at Brooklyn Museum hanging Ghanian artist El Anatsui’s monumental bottle cap wall sculpture, a triumph of art handling no doubt worthy of the Art Handling Olympics. Only takes them about a minute, too — sort of. Anatsui’s first solo exhibition opened last Thursday, featuring a number of these massive installations made from […]
