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upcycling
A working library of design, type, and visual culture.
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2012Shari Mendelson recycles plastic bottles into ornate, playful vases
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2007Ampoules Recyclees
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2016Artist Casey Gray transforms the mundane into the distinctive
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2024A sign of the times: Jeffrey Sincich’s quilted works show the art in the everyday
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2020How to survive 2020 with the queen of upcycling, Nicole McLaughlin
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2012Bert Löschner transforms the unsung garden chair into charming artworks
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2013So clever – check out Re-Do Studio's beautiful, recycled kitchen appliances!
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2018Maddie Williams works with majority repurposed materials in her renewable textiles practice
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2014Art: Louis Reith creates beautiful works of art from found books and objects
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2013Furniture Design: Fort Standard hack fallen trees into beautiful stools
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2022In a world of information overload, Vlad Boyko is creating something new from upcycled visuals
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2011Landfill Editions
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2014Alain Delorme transforms plastic bags into elegant flocks of birds
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2012Roos Gomperts takes the disposable and makes it notable!
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2008Matilda Tristram
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2013Product Design: Jesse Howard makes a functioning kettle from random objects
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2021Steel Warriors documents an outdoor gym made from melted down knives and the community who use it
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2012Turning magazines into furniture with the clever folks at NJU Studio
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2015David Brandon Geeting’s brilliant and strange litter-based art
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2009Styling and Salvage
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2010Rosie Lees: Nike Lunar Eclipse Installation
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2011Piet Hein Eek: Tube Bench
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2013New book celebrates the anarchic designs of the Creative Salvage movement
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2012Expialidocious: Scavengers
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2013Exhibition: Old cigarette packets turned into football kits
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2020Supreme DIY Mod
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2021Bernie Kaminski’s paper mâché creations showcase the joy of art imitating life
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2023Jeremy Scott fashions a couture collection out of Hyundai’s automotive waste
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2025New Logo and Identity for Unbegun by Bram Naus
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2014Furniture Design: Piet Hein Eek's making furniture, made of furniture, made of furniture
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2011Charlott Markus
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2022New Logo and Identity for Losanje by Brand Brothers
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2022Friday Likes 415
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2012Bright, bold and beautiful – Evan Robarts transforms broken rubbish into engaging sculptural forms
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2025Amiee Byrne turns discarded everyday items into hyper-realistic ceramic artworks
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2015Create a table out of anything with SNAP from design studio Be-elastic
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2008Dirty Found
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2015Hamburger Eyes’ new zine of faces made up of unwanted food
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2013Maps transformed into pretty dresses by Elisabeth Lecourt
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2021James Shaw reimagines our relationship with materials by translating waste into desirable objects
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2015Archive: Andrea Aranow selects her favourite fabrics from a 40,000-piece collection
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2013Esther Stewart has discovered the secret to turning a box into a work of art
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