No matter what you normally do with your old hoodie, the method here will still interest you a lot. So what are you waiting for? Follow the instructions shown in the pictorial and transform your hoodie into a functional backpack then! [Read the rest of this entry...]
An amazing bar recently appeared at the Oporto University in Portugal, capturing almost everybody’s eyes. Why, you may ask, the bar could be so appealing? Perhaps that mainly attributes to the special material the Temporary Bar is made of. It is built by firstly fixing 420 different-depth IKEA storage boxes on a wooden structure and then attaching them to the main metal structure. The designers, Diogo Aguiar and Teresa Otto, have folded open one of the building’s walls, to make it look exactly like a cool bar. Since LED lights are also adopted in the project, each box will give a different brightness (according to its depth) at night, adding more fun to the wonderful time. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Korea-based artist Ji Yong Ho, who believes that “rubber is very flexible, like skin, like muscles”, has shown us the artistic features of used car and motorcycle tires with a series of Tire Sculptures.
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Incorporating an ‘accordion-like, honeycomb’ structure, the FlexibleLove Virgin by Chishen Chiu could accommodate a seating for 8 to 16 people at one time. The product line now consists of two different kinds of FlexibleLove, the Earth 8 and the Earth 16. Both of them are made of recycled materials like the recycled paper, recycled wood waste, etc. When given a simple pull at each end, the furniture could be easily transformed into a semicircular or a circular-shaped seating to hold as many as 16 people. But when folded up, it measures merely one tenths of that. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Everyone prefers to choose a matching belt for their suits, but have you ever seen somebody using such a creative belt? [Read the rest of this entry...]
So what have you done with the discarded magazines? Throw them away? Oh, guys, you will regret having done that after you check out the ‘Magazines Wall’ created by Elding Oscarson. In the graphic design company located in Oktavilla, Stockholm, you’ll find a wall constructed from bundles of magazines, which gives the interior a cool and refreshing look. Do you like it? I really love it a lot! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Creative Factor: Cool machine converts office paper into toilet paper.
The Japanese company Oriental has come up with a machine by the name of ‘White Goat’ recently. It is an innovative machine that converts your wasted office paper into toilet paper in about 30minutes. After you put about 40sheeets of paper into the machine, ‘White Goat’ will then shredder the paper, dissolve it in the water, thin the paper out, and then dry it into toilet sheets. Merely costing $0.11 to churn out one toilet roll, claimed by the company, the machine will save up to 60 cedar trees every year. The cool machine is expected to hit the market in Japan this summer, at a price of $100,000. [Read the rest of this entry...]
If you’ve gotten too many plastic, metal and other waste materials in your life but still don’t know what to do with them, our suggestion is to create Optimus Prime Replica from them, just as a Taiwanese DIYer has done. Every part of the 14-foot Optimus Prime replica is made from junk, for example, his chest is made from old windows that may be lying in the rubbish bins. Though the replica is not that smart as the one we see in movies, it has successfully encouraged us to make full use of the waste around us. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Creative Factor: A clever and proper utilization of waste material.
To those who have been in deep love with air travel, the Airplane Hotel at the Teuge Airport in Netherlands seems quite attractive. The luxury hotel is transformed from a Cold War-era East German Airplane but features something new and modern, including 3 flat screen TVs, a sauna, 24/7 hostess, a Jacuzzi, and a Blu-Ray player.
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Charles Seuleusian is quite concerned about the environment and aims to save up energy as possible as he could. His ‘Waste Basket’ is a reusable trash bin made from discarded wooden boards. How to DIY one? Surround a circle base with pieces of wooden boards, put an inflated balloon into the cylinder, fix the mouth with a splint and then done! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Creativity is everywhere and Erika Iris Simmons is here to show us a new look of art by creating some portraits with weird stuff. Her first project, which is also Simmons’ favorite work, is a portrait of William Shakespeare made out of the writer’s books. And after that, Simmons has tried to make portraits with other materials and finally come up with some impressive portraits made out of cassette and film tapes. So what are you waiting for? Check out more cassette and film tape portraits after the break. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Since some lights like the floor lamps, chandeliers are designed in a big size with an intense and bright light, while others are designed to be small dots or power indicators with weak and limited light, there must have been certain reasons. So why, you may ask, is the item here designed for? Actually, I don’t know why, either. But believed by the designers, the ‘Light Recycler’ will enhance the light intensity of those tiny dots, making them serve as needed lighting systems and therefore save certain energy. Whether you appreciate or not, that’s really a creative idea which has greatly inspired us. [Read the rest of this entry...]
What? Wasted paper sheets? Oh, man, don’t dissipate your energies in trivial matters! After all, wasted paper sheets have comparatively limited value. However, we’re sure to change our opinions after we see the video. In a competition, the simple tool, made from several waste paper sheets and designed for packing up clothes, has surprisingly won a victory over high-tech products.
Anthony Toth is a 42-year-old global sales director at United Airlines, and the biggest success in his past forty years, in my opinion, may be the vintage Pan Am first-class cabin built in his garage. It has cost Mr. Toth 20 years and 50,000 dollars to build a Pan Am cabin, which includes almost everything a plane in the late 1970s and 1980s, would have, such as pairs of red-and-blue reclining seats, original overhead luggage bins and a curved, red-carpeted staircase. In addition, Mr. Toth has built a few economy-class seats, too. And in the near future, wished Mr. Toth, his garage could be turned into a cabin museum.
2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games medals, unveiled recently at Vancouver Olympic village, are claimed to be environment-friendly, super-ellipse medals with undulating surfaces — all firsts in Games history. Except the traditional metallic material, CRT, computer parts, circuit boards and other recycled materials are also used to make these medals, which aims to call for more attention to the ecology business. As the medals are also designed to be “substantial”, they weight between 500 and 576 grams each, among the heaviest medals in Olympic Games history.
