Eco-Couture by Gary Harvey

Fashion designers, eco-conscious Gary Harvey designed these stylish environmentally friendly dresses.



Newspaper Dress: 30 copies of the ‘Financial Times’ folded and attached to a salmon pink corset to create a ‘tulle’ skirt.



“Newspapers are one of the few products that get recycled. Currently too much information is printed on paper that does not get read or recycled”.



Denim Dress: 42 pairs of Levi 501’s in various shades of indigo, cut up and reconstructed to create a tiered ball gown with a corset waist, worn with a cropped denim jacket.

“Jeans are one of the most hard-wearing garments, originally designed as a work uniform and made in a fabric designed to last years. Since the transition from ‘work-wear’ to fashion, jeans are often discarded for the latest silhouette before the end of their useful life”.



Mac Dress: 18 Trench Coats in various shades of beige attached to a ‘Burberry’ check corset, worn with a cropped ‘Burberry’ Mac.

“The classic trench coat designed to last for many years”.



Military Dress: 21 Army Jackets in various shades of green and camouflage, reconstructed into a “fishtail” cocktail dress.



Dress made of old wedding dresses



Laundry Bag Dress: Made out of 21 laundry bags.

Baseball Puffball Dress: Made out of 26 nylon baseball jackets. Sports uniforms were originally designed to be hi-tech long lasting uniforms, now they are non-biodegradable and are often discarded at the end of the season.



Dress made of old rugby shirt and Hawaiian shirts

Check his website: www.garyharveycreative.com

Recycled Book Pages Teacups by Cecilia Levy

Swedish artist Cecilia Levy creates cups, saucers, bowls, plates and saucers made from recycled book pages.



"I have a background as a graphic designer and bookbinder. In 2009, I began experimenting with 3-dimensional shapes; taking apart an old book, tearing it into small pieces and pasting them back together again (resulting in a wobbly, but expressive, bowl). I had suddenly found "my" material. Ever since then I'm on the lookout for suitable old books..."





























Check her website: http://www.cecilialevy.com/ and blog: http://cecilialevy.blogspot.sg/

Giant Scrap Wood Sculptures by Thomas Dambo

Copenhagen-based Danish artist and designer Thomas Dambo created these giant sculptures made of wood and other materials that he scavenge everyday.



"I truly love working with scrap wood. There’s so much of it everywhere so I can pretty much build what ever I can imagine. I hope my sculptures will inspire others to recycle."

















Check his website: http://mrdambo.wix.com/

Fairy Garden made of Broken Flower Pot

There's a new trend in gardening that repurposes broken clay pot into mini gardens that can make a nice decoration in your garden, known as Fairy garden.

Recycled Materials Installations

Plastic Bottle Fish Sculptures

The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) created these large fish sculptures in Botafogo Beach, Rio de Janerio - Brazil, made of discarded plastic bottles.



At night, the giant sculptures illuminate from the inside.









Plastic Bottle Parking Canopy

American designer Garth Britzman of Lincoln, Nebraska used 1,500 recycled bottles filled with colored water to create stunning topographical shade canopy for a vehicle.











Whirlwind of Garbage

Beijing-based artist Wang Zhiyuan constructs this 36-foot high (11-meter) whirlwind of plastic garbage ascending into the air, entitled 'Thrown to the Wind'.



The tornado of plastic waste represents the heaps of trash that overwhelm his hometown and its surrounding environment.



“I want my art to be about something bigger than me. If it wasn’t involved in society I would feel guilty.”



Zip Ties Bear

Design Office Takebayashi Scroggin (also known as d.o.t.s.) created a life-size installation made entirely from 20,000 standard zip ties, called the 'Zip Tie Massimal'.



The installation is anchored to the ceiling by a cable suspension system.









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Flip-flops Monkey

This awesome installation was created for Pixelshow's 2010 conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil local students who named him 'Fat Monkey', made out of 10,000 flip-flops.



“The Fat Monkey is a site specific work which was created out of the question from the Pixelshow to make a sculpture during their conference in 2010. Made with the help of local students and made from the brazilian icon; the flip flop which obviously works as one of the 10.000 pixels. The fat monkey is a work in the series Obeastitas.”













Recycled Materials Garden

The Montreal Eaton Center has been transformed into an ecosystem using various by-products of its day to day operations, culled from the shopping center's recycling bins.



The artists behind this project are Roadsworth and Brian Armstrong (a.k.a ’2Youth’).



"This installation therefore is not a re-creation of nature but a facsimile thereof. A stage set ecosystem whose beauty lies not in how successfully it portrays the natural world but the degree to which the attempt to do so falls short. Like a shattered teacup that's been glued back together, the elements that make up this installation are reassembled into a clumsy semblance of their original forms, a poignant reminder of both the fragility and irrevocable loss of a natural and original state."