FRIEZE ART FAIR NEW YORK 2012
MILAN 2012: SALONE INTERNAZIONALE DEL MOBILE
MILAN 2012: SATELLITE EXHIBITIONS
MILAN 2012: BRERA DESIGN DISTRICT
Look around you, folks -- somewhere there is material that someone is throwing out, and with a little creativity you can use that material to make objects, not to mention a couple bucks.
Malaysia-based Etsy user NottyPooch has been harvesting billboard banners, those huge pieces of printed vinyl-like material used in short-term advertising, and turning the stuff into "MacBook sleeves, wallets, journals, storage bins, coaster sets" and more. The best part is that once you break the giant banners down into object-sized remnants, there's no longer any discernible trace of whatever products they're shilling -- unfinished words here, a pixelated hint of an image there.
The resultant objects are handmade and graphically one-of-a-kind. "All billboard banners are brushed, washed, cleaned by hand, and carefully selected, measured, and cut into eye catchy pieces before being sewn," explains Notty. Check 'em out here.
Comments
This is great, but... this concept has been around the alternative craft fair scene a long time, and predates even that.
Reminds me of some of the projects that came out of the partnership between Waste-for-Life and RISD last year.
Freitag has been making these things for a long time. I bought a Chinese design in Beijings 798 art district.
Uh, Freitag has been making them since the late 90s... How new and innovative.
Who gives a shit who made it first? People have been recycling things since the dawn of time. Get over it.
So are recycled paper products and fused plastic bags that people sell everywhere? This article is about how they make good use of some one else's 'garbage', not how innovative they are. They are one-of-a-kind because no 2 are exactly the same. Don't hate for nothing guys.