Blogs & Ecology

When artist Michel de Broin gets home from a hard day's pedalling in his Flinstonemobile, he can relax in style in his converted dumpster....

Too small? Paul Kedrosky here

Paul Kedrosky thinks that US consumers live in smelly houses with fat pets, because according to a new Unilever study, they are cutting back on air fresheners but not on pet food.

London designer Oliver Bishop-Young's work "focuses on skips [Britspeak for dumpsters] and looks at three main areas: exchange of waste materials, re-use of waste and making use of wasted spaces."

While he does wonderful things with dumpsters, turning them into everything from swimming pools to skateboard parks, he has a more serious ambition. ...

Exhibiting last Fall with Design Boom in Tokyo, Israel's Yoav Kotik is not afraid to try new things. From an industrial designer to working in the insurance industry, and now back to the world of Art, Kotik at 50, is now exhibiting his recycled flowers "Spring" at Tel Aviv's Periscope Gallery.
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