Ecofriend

Eco Factor: Recycled objects sculpted into pieces of art. Recycled art is nothing new on Ecofriend, but we just can’t let our eyes off objects reincarnated from things we usually throw in our trash bags. Yuken Teryua is another artist from Japan.

Eco Factor: Chair made from recycled upholstery. Making the best use of old upholstery, designers at the Oslo National Academy of Arts have created a stunning looking chair, which they call “Drops.” The chair has legs made of stainless steel...

Eco Factor: Recycled sculpture made from cake pans. We’ve seen recycled materials used in making sculptures of different kinds, insects being no exception. But this is the first time we are seeing cake pans being recycled into a unique centipede.

Eco Factor: Sculpture made from recycled watches and clocks. Artist Michael Roberts does something with old watches and clocks none of us would have ever thought of before. No, he doesn’t make them workable again and he doesn’t even throw them.

Eco Factor: Old car parts recycled into beautiful sculptures. Getting rid of your old car in an ecofriendly manner might not be as easy as it seems. Even if you give your car for recycling, it will take tons of fuel to melt down the metal to...

Eco Factor: Floor lamp made from recycled materials. We often see products made from recycled materials that bring tears to our eyes. Be it the recycled CD clock or the skull made from old kitchen utensils, they all make us wonder about the brain..

Eco Factor: Xmas tree made from recycled HDDs. The use of SATA hard drives and even flash disks in some systems has rendered traditional ATA hard drives useless, because the former offers more speed, energy-efficiency and a longer service time....

Eco Factor: Christmas tree made from 300 recycled glass water bottles. Paprika Design Studio has created an unconventional Christmas tree for Montreal-based furniture retailer Domison. Known as the “Ice-Tree,” the tree is being showcased in...

Eco Factor: A city designed with used plastic bottles. Plato in 360 BC described a city named Atlantis, whose beauty was beyond any comparison. Mythologized for its abundance of striking temples and stunning vegetation, the city was supposed to be.

Eco Factor: Solar-powered artwork for San Francisco. “Language of the Birds” is a site-specific artwork designed by Brian Goggin and Dvorka Keehn for a new public plaza in San Francisco. The artwork consists of 23 solar-powered book sculptures.