Ecofriend

My circle of friends has a real reputation for drinking like fish, and that often means that the designated driver, who is almost always me, ends up cleaning after those drunken morons. The task often leaves me with a trunkful of beautiful but empty...

Are you an environmentalist? Do you refuse, reuse and recycle? If you don’t, well, then you should. And if you already do, you can give yourself a complimentary pat on the back and wait for your brownie points with God to cash into something really...

Inspired by the desire to find secondary uses for non-recyclable materials like the inner tubes of tyres, this Inner Tube Chair created by 5forty Design is certainly the most innovative bit of eco-design we have seen in a long time. Using a steel...

Created by artists-designers and sisters Reta and Vana Howell, these funky lamps made from old plastic bottles really do make a great cause for recycling. Made from upcycled plastic bottles, household plastic containers and recycled scrap metal, the...

This year’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair held in New York saw yet more stunning recycled artwork from design students. A student project from Appalachian State University called Black Valley Design Collective (BVD Collective) debuted...

Ok people, this has got to be the best tribute to the world’s favorite beverage that I have ever seen. I mean I knew beer cans looked artsy after I’d polished a few of them off, but they never looked this good when I hadn’t had a few rounds of..

I love making artwork and hand-crafts to decorate my home. But I really hate having to dish out major bucks in making many of those little tidbits that would in fact cost less if I bought them ready made. That’s why I really loved this handy DIY...

Remember I told you about these two blokes in the US who used discarded shipping containers to make cabins? Well, apparently the idea has also traveled down under as well and now an industrial design lecturer at Victoria University, Wellington has...