My personal Top 5 of the 50 Creative Ways to Repurpose, Reuse and Upcycle Old Things of Twisted Sifter:
Top 1: Turn Old Credit Cards Into Guitar Picks
Top 2: Repurpose a Card Catalogue Into a Mini Bar
Top 3: Upcycle Old Light Bulbs Into Candles
Top 4: Repurpose Old CD Holders Into Bagel Storage Device
Top 5: Use Old [...]
Berlin’s first concept store for upcycling fashion, the Upcycling Fashion Store, has moved and reopened on March 1 at Anklamerstrasse – find out what’s new!
On the photo: rebuilt sink and board with coat pegs of bicycle brakes by El Reinventor and Sag+Sal bags.
Upcycling Fashion Store
Anklamerstrasse 17, 10115 Berlin
Mon-Fri 11 am – 7 pm, Sat noon [...]
Like recycling, upcycling is a kind of waste prevention – but in a very creative way.
WE UPCYCLE is a blog by Lisa Schultz and Magdalena Akantisz, two students from the University of applied arts in Vienna, on which they posted 30 things they created out of waste materials for 30 days in a row. For [...]
How to renovate council housing and tower blocks in a contemporary way has been a pet obsession of French architects Lacaton & Vassal for quite some time now, and successfully so. See the results and arguments for it tonight at the DAZ, where they will exhibit their recent transformation of Parisian apartment block Tour Bois [...]
Mars One is looking for astronauts. Before you apply, I recommend you read The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody.
I’ve really been looking forward to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus but ended up slightly confused after watching the film a couple of months ago. Apparently I wasn’t the only one who still had some unanswered questions. Now both versions of the script turned up online, the first one which was written by Jon Spaithts, and the [...]
Crap=Good is organizing a release party for the new book ‘What is the future of architecture?’ in Apartment Project Berlin. Composer/musician, media artist Peter Kirn will be performing.
‘Over the past few months we have asked this question trough an open call on our project website www.the-future-of.org. These answers, together with a selection of invited architectural offices, [...]
Let’s face it: The world needs more Fairhorns. And more jumpsuits (that’s pretty mono, for sure). Okay, and also more of this.
As we are about to finally release our first artist book with Robert Montgomery, here is a quick thank you to not just all of you who supported the project in the making, but to the platform who made it happen in the first place: Kickstarter. We can’t stress enough how grateful we are that [...]
