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Repurposed treasure box , has a multi layered flower on top with a fabulous vintage pearl and rhinestone earring in the center! A littlethings1 treasure. You can check my pfofile for links.
Table lamp I finished about 5 years ago. Made from an old french horn, some found walnut for the base and an old shade I had sitting around. Looks good in my music room.
This is a toothbrush holder from Target that was just to cute to be used to hold toothbrushes. It is put to better use holding my long dangley earrings. Now they are not all tangled up in my jewelry box. I also got the matching soap dish to hold my rings when I take them off at night and the soap dispenser to hold my favorite body lotion. They all look gorgeous on my vanity!
The idea for this handbag came to me this morning, as I was looking at a leather jacket I had bought from the thrift store. I incorporated the front of the jacket which included two inset pockets and then changed out the buttons for vintage ones. This gives me two exterior pockets on each side of the bag. The inside of the bag is a Robert Kaufman print.
This project's aim was to repurpose the objects to produce a range of inventive alternative uses, using refined construction and joining strategies. Therefore, I have brought in plastic bags and plastic bottle to analyse how it can be manipulated, deconstructed and combined to create new functioning objects. In order to gather more idea on how the objects can be manipulated, I have researched on Laura Anne Marsden who created a technique for transforming waste plastic bags into lace. She uses a combination of traditional hand-stitch and needle lace-making, along with various processes to form her lace into jewellery.
Following her idea, I have tried various ways to turn plastic bags into a thread, using knitting needles and shredding them into thin strips and twisting them to form a twisted thread. However, both ways were unsuccessful, as plastic threads did not hold and kept ripping off, although I have wax coated them. Then I have remembered a Candy Wrapper Purse, made from 100% recycled foil candy wrappers. This purse was weaved with different wrappers, therefore I have weaved plastic bags and it did not rip off and kept its shape.
Thinking of recycling led me to think of one of important environmental issue, waste in seas. The waste originates from landfills and other urban sources, which is consumed by fish and can entangle sharks and damage coral reefs, tends to accumulate in gyres (a large area that is approximately the size of Texas with debris. It’s estimated that this “plastic island” contains 3.5 million tons of trash and could double in size in the next 5 years).
Researching this environment issue led me to look at designers who were inspired by natural forms, such as PET plastic bottle jellyfish pieces by Miwa Koizumi and Crystallisation by Iris Van Herpen. Which she was fascinated by the secrets and invisibility of water, in particular the antithesis of structure and chaos. This idea of 'time captured' and sea led me to experiment with wax, as many designers I have researched have used transparent materials and I thought wax had that semi-transparent quality. While experimenting with wax, I have found out that pouring water on top of melted wax hardens wax and leaves a holes with almost frill like form, which reminded me of sea waves. I also thought this frill like form communicates the idea of 'time captured' as it is formed as soon as water has touched the surface of wax. Therefore I have developed this wax forms by using colours of seas; different shades of blue, emerald and teal and I have added sand on each layer of the colours of wax, so this wax form becomes a representation of 'time captured' plastic islands.
I have attached my weaved plastic bags on the bottom of the wax forms to hold conceptual form of seaweed made by using hair dryer and plastic bottle. As this project is "Repurposing" and I been looking at environmental issue, I did not want to melt or burn the plastic, as they give off toxic gases.
April 19, 2008.
Shot with Crown Graphic on Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO 4x5 sheet film (expired December, 2007).
Developed in Paterson Orbital, 100 ml D76 (1:0) for 7,5 minutes, 30 seconds stop and 5,5 minutes fix.
made from repurposed T shirts and purchased ribbing.
I used an Ottobre pattern.
Blogged here
www.rispoklife.com/1/post/2012/04/days-4-5-sunhat-and-tan...
Made from repurposed clothes:
thrift store jeans
thrift store bed skirt
hand-me-down seersucker pants
featured at repurposing jeans sewing crafts
The 3rd Annual Fashion Trashion event at the University of Minnesota, Morris. This event is run by the Studio Art folks, who have students in the intro 3-D studio course create costumes out of recycled, reused, or repurposed materials. This is a always a huge success, with lots of really creative work and a ton of fun for the audience.
Jess Larson is the MC, Jennie Nellis taught the course this year, and the judges are Troy Goodnough (Sustainability Coordinator), Jennifer Deane (History), Jacquie Johnson (Chancellor), Ray Schultz (Theatre), and Hilda Ladner (Multi-ethnic Programs)
Winters Brush matching cuff made from repurposed LEGO® and makeup brushes, silk cord. 2011 emiko oye.
TMSH 12/12/sh6 - Christmas Card.
ODC December 4 - Cards.
I don't mail out Christmas cards and any that arrive are put away until the next year and cut up into gift tags.
Summer 2012 family trip to Vancouver and back.
Turning the old tunnels and tressels of the Kettle Valley Railroad into walking paths was brilliant.
At the front gate of the Wordon Ave. exchange, the base of a large wood planer, manufactured by the Northfield Foundry and Machine company of Northfield, MN., now is used as a sign for the business. Shot on a Pentax 6x7 using Kodak Porta 400
The 3rd Annual Fashion Trashion event at the University of Minnesota, Morris. This event is run by the Studio Art folks, who have students in the intro 3-D studio course create costumes out of recycled, reused, or repurposed materials. This is a always a huge success, with lots of really creative work and a ton of fun for the audience.
Jess Larson is the MC, Jennie Nellis taught the course this year, and the judges are Troy Goodnough (Sustainability Coordinator), Jennifer Deane (History), Jacquie Johnson (Chancellor), Ray Schultz (Theatre), and Hilda Ladner (Multi-ethnic Programs)
Took a Trader Joes limeade bottle, painted the insert with chalkboard paint and added a spout for my own olive oil bottle.
Could be used for all sorts of stuff!
Snap off.
I used Amy Karol's pattern from "Bend-the-Rules Sewing."
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Hexagonal Repurposed Junk Array #1; my piece for RZN8, the 2012 ArtCon Seed Auction. This is a combination audio player dock and light organ made from 100% recycled or repurposed surplus parts. The exterior is laser-cut scrap acrylic. A surplus LED array from a traffic light is driven by an analog band-pass circuit to create light that pulsates to the music. The laser cutter at Dallas Makerspace was used.
Watch a video demonstration or see some video of the construction on YouTube.
Repurposing tutorial for making an apron from an old pair of jeans at Art Threads artthreads.blogspot.com/2011/04/wednesday-sewing-bib-apro...
Tom Stewart of Bristol, Indiana believes in Repurposing items - 1-27-2017. When the old Bristol entrance signs were replaced, some wondered what happened to the old signs made by the local Lions’ Club. But for Tom Stewart of Bristol, Indiana, it just took looking at one of the old signs to put an idea in his head to repurpose it into a unique table. He chose the one with a faded rose painted underneath the metal Apple sign. He built a platform for the table, and his wife Gabriele, an artist, revived the faded rose. Although he and his wife would have loved to keep the table, they didn’t have the room, and he thought it should go where Bristol people could enjoy it. After checking with the Town Hall and other places, he chose to put the table in the Bristol Library, where a wall of historical photos attract visitors to enjoy and discuss Bristol’s history. Tom is retired after spending years working in the Mobile Home Industry, and he and his wife have lived in Bristol for 26 years. Posing with Rachel & Carol from the library, Tom came for an interview and brought several other items that he has repurposed over the years: a bar stool made out of an old saddle, and a glass topped table made out of an old Poplar tree root from his yard, and a whimsical coat rack that featured a tough walnut that broke his nutcracker at a New Year's Eve party. He does not claim to be a artist, just someone who gets an idea and makes what he sees into an intriguing conversation piece. And why a rose on the old sign? Perhaps the original sign maker tried to paint an apple which looked more like a rose, and replaced it with the metal apple signs to portray Bristol’s fruit history.
www.recyclart.org/2010/09/dreyfus-phones-stereo-speakers-...
Henry Dreyfuss was a fellow industrial designer and quite famous in his own right. His most enduring design is a series of wonderful phones used the world over for 50 years. Unfortunately, these phones are made of Bakelite, a material that is so strong that it never biodegrades. Ever. There are landfills filled with mountains of these phones.
Jinsop Lee and Justin Kim decided to re-use the handset of these phones, but instead of designing the handset as a new phone (which Jinsop already tried in university) they went ahead and redesigned the handsets to be used as a stereo speaker system for MP3 players. Thus, the younger generation will get to use a product that was once used by their parents and grandparents. As an added bonus, the speakers sound brilliant.
“Our goal was to design a product that people would covet not because it was recycled, but rather because it was a decent looking product that worked well, and just happened to use a recycled component.”
Here is the old Dreyfus phone
++ Complete story at "Uncle Oswald"