There is an aesthetic quality in simple designs that can’t be matched and even more beauty to be found in using natural techniques to achieve sustainable art. The water-shaped bottle by designer Xiaoli Wen is part of a series of porcelain bottles shaped by a waterfall. The result is a gentle shape made from silicone rubber moulds of discarded plastic and glass bottles. The mould is created as it hangs under flowing water. The finished product represents the bottles which are often discarded carelessly into rivers and oceans.
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We’re about to let you in on a little secret. Are you ready for it? Headphones don’t need to be boring! Not with such interesting package designs like earphones presented in the shape of music notes from Panasonic. For something with a little more attitude, you can opt for these cute and affordable LEGO brick earphones from Elecom. They are about to be released in Japan and come in an irresistible collection of colours. If you’re super keen, you can channel your inner child and create your own LEGO headphones for that retro, unique edge.
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Imagine if your favourite literary works were brought to life in strange and wonderful ways? Katrina Rodabaugh not only imagined such a concept, she put it in to action with an art installation called ‘The Dresses/Objects Project’. Inspired by Gertrude Stein’s revolutionary poetry collection ‘Tender Buttons’ in 1914, Katrina hand printed the verses onto recycled materials. Thirty artists put the material together, some never having sewn a stitch before and then tried their hands at modelling the outfits, giving the final finish a natural, casual, just-thrown-together look, the words adding a sophisticated and timeless finish.
Everyday appliances can seem mundane and a little on the boring side after a while. Why go for the same old utensil, when designers like Anglo-Swiss partnership Black and Blum are coming up with genius designs, all with a twist on old favourites? Some standouts include the fruit bowl, the potato masher, a little man bookend (his name is James), a loo roll holder, a teacup pencil holder and an insect lamp. These cute and quirky designs are dripping with personality and they make us happy for those every day moments.
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Recycled shipping containers? Don’t mind if you do! Who knew that they could provide such striking, visual art sculptures? Although shipping containers are often recycled into houses, clinics, offices and dormitories, turning them into art and sculpture is the latest craze for such artists like Michael Johansson from Sweden. In a project entitled ‘Self Contained’, Michael piles up colourful shipping containers like Tetris building blocks, for a striking visual effect. The sculpture below was found in Yokohama Harbour in the Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Not your average sculpture!
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Congratulations to Claire, our ‘Sign Up and Win’ winner for July.
Claire is the lucky winner of a $50 gift voucher from kikki-k. The good folk at Kikki-K are committed to providing simple and timeless Swedish designs for stationery, objects around the home and gorgeous gifts to make every day life that little bit more interesting.
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It’s hard to believe that remnants of war and death can lead to art. And yet turning used bullet cases from war torn countries into jewellery is a way of inverting our expectations, proving that harmful things can be taken from its original purpose and context, reworked and given a whole new purpose. This provocative work has recently emerged from young designers like Adi Zaffran Weisler from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and 17-year-old former refugee from Liberia, Lovetta Conto who now lives in the United States. Lovetta astonishingly takes the spent casings used in her former country’s civil war and turns them into beautiful jewellery, promoting peace and harmony in place of chaos and destruction.
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