Hi guys, here we are: Cristina Savi, Editor at Verbania News, the one on your right with the Crazy Eco Mask and Giulia Massera the Creative Director at Refashinoso driving an Eco Scooter!

We are here together to launch a challenge today:

“FreeStyle & Refashinoso are Looking for Your Creative Ideas in Recycling Fashion! Because you deserve to Be Unique.!”

What do you have to do? Simply send your ideas to us at refashinoso@shicon.com and info@cristinasavi.it

As you already know Refashinoso is now Partner of FreeStyle Re-loaded it means that we will start to share information and tips about Fashion and Art Recycling.

Among our project:

- Create a network of creative recycling ideas

- Provide the public with more tools, knowledge and tutorials for DIY

- Create a business network where you can find items produced by artists using recycled materials

- Create events to promote this kind of projects

That’s why the best & crazy & original ideas from everywhere will be published here at Refashinoso and at FreeStyle Re-loaded.

You already know that amazing Websites like ThreadBanger, The surfthechannel, mahalo wrote about us and Viceland & Ecofashionworldare our Partner. So what are waiting for?

The first Event to promote the “Eco-Bags” from “Ginko” project created by re-using “Coffe’ Packaging” is June 4, 2010 from 19.30 in Extremadura Cafe – Milan.

Don’t miss this opportunity. See you soon!

Vice to celebrate the arrival of Skate 3 sent Vice staff photographer, and avid skater, Jonnie Craig off on a road trip to Ramsgate with a group of friends.

While they were there, they made the most of the best thing about skating, the hanging about with mates bit – an aspect which Skate 3’s revolutionary multiplayer features make use of for the first time. Skate 3 allows you to play with friends online and work as a team. No more sitting in your room in the dark racking up points alone, you can build the ultimate team and compete with others online, design your own parks and logos. In short – you can do a lot more than you can do in Ramsgate, and you can still do it with your mates.

Have a look at all the details on Vice’s website.
Because Refashinoso loves design, sport and healthy life!

Vice and Nintendo have commissioned seven artists to create a Pokémon inspired piece of artwork to celebrate Nintendo’s newest Pokemon releases on the DS, and are holding an exhibition to showcase the works, from 24th – 31st March, at Blackall Studios.
The exhibition opens with a big launch party on the 24th, full of Nintendo product for guests to demo, Pokemon inspired food, lots of booze and a stellar line-up of DJs: Filthy Dukes, Friendly Fires and Real Gold. The event will be guestlist only, attended by members of the press, select tastemakers from the Vice network, and competition winners.

ArtWork by Jon Burgerman

Artwork by Andy J. Miller

Go to Vice website to see the works, find out more about the campaign and enter the competition.

There’s nothing better than lots of colour splashes on your dress to put you in a good mood!

Fernando Brizio is a talented product designer from Portugal, responsible for some of the most creative recycled art and fashion.
Like this Felt-tip Pens Dress: by meticulously inserting coloured felt-tip pens, nib down, into a white dress fitted with little pockets, the ink is bleeds into the fabric in a sequence of splodges. The idea behind the dress is that the owner slips the pens into the pockets herself just before entering the party or whatever she’s attending and bursting into messy bloom. As you can see the felt tip pens are inserted in the small pockets of the dress. Within an hour – to one and a half hours the colored ink bleeds into the fabric and creates a one-off design for each occasion. The owner can then clean the dress and color it in a different way for each time they wear it.
Watch this video by Fernando explaining how it’s done:

Thanks by Erika Cogoni.

Designersblock is more than a design show, it’s a culture that has grown over 12 years. It has students and graduates together with long established design companies and everyone in between. This year, Designersblock has been an exhibition inside an exhibition. It took place in Earl’s Court, in a pavilion apart, during 100% Design. Among its stands, there was a very strange installation, that looks like a room: the place in which two artistic projects met each other. The two projects are “Invading memories” by Chu YinHua and “Strange•R” by LimWeiLing. Now, they converged in a unique project, then in a unique website too.

It’s not simple to explain the two projects. It’s better to use the words of their founders. “The term Strange•R comes from the word stranger. A Strange•R is an everyday object which once was familiar but now seems strange, having random words deriving from the dreams and experiences of the people in the city applied on them. R is Re-live, Re-born, Re-use, Re-visit, Re-learn, Re-think, Re-create, Rejoice, Relationship… These diverse interpretations will see the transformations of everyday objects into something that can be reapplied into our daily life in a renewed way. At the same time they assume characters that tell of the stories of our city”. We can say the essence of a Strange•R is an “Invading memory”.

People had an active role in the project: they could be “Object Translators”. Their task was to give life to an abandon object. Re-think it. Re-invent it. In a way that allow to see the strangely familiar and the familiarly strange. Results are surprising. And if we do catch hold of the surprising and wonderful in the everyday, let’s think about the limits of what is possible and peraphs you may come face to face with a moment of revelation.

Last Spring, Eco-Design Fair teamed up with Regenersis – The UK’s biggest mobile phone recycling company, to run a design competition during Love London Green Festival 2009. Designers were invited to create an original and innovative product suitable for any sort of domestic use; from a piece of jewellery to an item of furniture, using old mobile handsets as raw material.

Amazing ideas and designs join the competition and finally:
First Prize goes to Claire Potter for Conversation Chair 

Runners up:

Anna Kompaniets for Hat and Georgie Tym for Handbag.

Alle details at Eco Design Fair

We met Sarah Baulch in Sunday, in a fascinating instant suck in Brick Lane under the Old Truman Brewery. Who is Sarah? She is the stylist and the creative mind of ReVampt.

ReVampt is a small company intent on designing and producing fabulous products which are well made, quirky and unique. The unused off cuts of the fashion and textile industry inspire Sarah to create gorgeous retro pieces for home and people.

She takes vintage & modern materials, samples, extras, inspirational purchases and other unused accessories directly from the fabrics and makes it into something new: handbags, cushions, home wares, quilts with several techniques, patchwork very often.

ReVampt receive vintage fabric and accessories from retired dress-makers and former makers who no longer have the time or inclination to produce work themselves. Everything is handmade in the UK by individuals or small businesses. ReVampt combines a 21st century eco friendly approach with traditional skills and crafts. The surprising result is beautiful well crafted pieces from a sustainable and eco friendly source.

ReVampt is based in London, 52 Grafton road. In 2008 the company was finalist in Start-up Stars, a competition sponsored by HBC .

Its name is The Pallet Project. It has been projected by Nina Tolstrup of StudioMama, defined by herself as “sustainable, accessible and an agent of social change”. The furniture collection is made from disused pallets – a source of cheap, often wasted, wood. The raw material is easy to find and the instructions are available to download from www.studiomama.com. Enjoy to try yourself to made your personal pallet-chair.

The Pallet Project has been introduced at 100% Design and exposed at Gallery Jacqueline Rabun in London until the half of October. An art gallery for a project like this? Yes, because three British artists have customized Pallet Lo Chairs which has been auctioned for charity. They are Gavin Turk, Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread.

The proceeds of the auction will go to found a workshop in Lugano, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Buenos Aires. Here, using Nina’s instructions, gallery owner and charity worker Cecilia Gilk has taught unemployed people to make the Pallet Chair in their co-operative. So, in this way, discarded pallets will be turned into saleable furniture, with the hope to help people in poverty to improve their lives.

A collection of newly designed pallet furniture and accessoried made by Nina Tolstrup will be view and on sale at Jacqueline Rabun’s shop in Belgravia.

As explained in her website “[re]design is a social enterprise that propagates sustainable actions through design”. She seeks out products and projects that are friendly to people and planet. [re]design is partner with a wide range of organisations to pioneer sustainable innovation, promoting their ideas and acitvities,

[re]design has just token place at 100% Design in Earl’s Court with an imaginative exhibition called “Doing it for the kids”. As you can just imagine, it was a show of a lot of fantastic products about sustainable play design. The project explored play types, the importance of play in child development, how toys help mould our kids’ values and how they impact on the environment. All the play resources shown in this surprising exhibition can inspire designers, educators and parents to be more critical and creative.

Almost fifty designers have given their interpretation about what it is re-design philosophy in childhood world, in a great stand made in paperboard, that looked like an enormous box of toys just opened on the floor. In “Doing it for the kids” album in Flickr you can see a few of images.

Now “Doing it for the kids” will move to other cities, with a tour that we hope long and successful. From 16 to 25 October it will be in Newcastle, from 19 to 21 November in Birmingham.

What is your source of inspiration? Last week we piddled in London, during the London Design Festival, seeing & seeking a lot of  interesting things. You know, London is creative in every single corner and in every period of the year. But this event has something special.

Re-use, re-cycle, re-design have been ones of the most popular keywords. We want to share with you a few images, thoughts and feelings we gathered in that days. A rough colletion of short sources of insipiration for your creative minds.

So, let’s start from the first image we shot in Earl’s Court at “100% Design” expo fair. This image can be considered the thread of the next episodes you’ll read at Refashinoso.com. See you soon with other inspirational posts from London Design Festival.