Posts in the category: Recycle

No clue what to do with old toys? UK artist/ sculptor Robert Bradford creates life-size and larger-than-life sculptures of humans and animals from discarded plastic items, mainly toys but also other colorful plastic bits and pieces, such as combs and buttons, brushes and parts of clothes pegs.

In 2002, he started to consider the possibilities that his children’s forgotten toys could have as part of something bigger. Bradford says he likes the idea that the plastic pieces have a history, some unknown past, and that they also pass on a “cultural” history as each of the pieces represents a point in time. Recycling is not his primary concern, but each sculpture certainly keeps quite a few pieces from becoming landfill. Some of the sculptures contain pieces from up to 3,000 toys!!

Exhibitions: Affordable Art Fair (A'dam) and Royal Academy London

Amazing new campagne about recycling from Timberland

With the project 'Platform21 = Repairing' Platform21 aims to raise awareness of a mentality, a culture and a practice that not so long ago was completely integrated into life and the way we designed it. They have written a manifesto describing the benefits of fixing things and calling upon designers and consumers to break the chain of throwaway thinking.
So bring all your broken stuff, furniture, clothes and repair it! From 21st till 23th of August..
More info: Platform 21

Dutch design stands for thoughtful approach, user engagement and cheeky humor. Remy&Veenhuizen is without a doubt one of the pioneers of these ideas. His designs exhibit a sense of nostalgia and contemporary function, combining old materials and techniques with forward-thinking forms and uses, and always injected with the oh-so-Dutch dry sense of humor.

Being the first denim brand to introduce organic cotton and fair trade jeanswear, Kuyichi and Remy&Veenhuizen share the same innovative and pioneering spirit. A good starting point to establish a close collaboration, creating various objects made of sustainable materials with a Kuyichi twist.

Kuyichi is always looking out for innovative solutions to design a greener, sustainable world.

Like this one, we bumped in earlier!

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