The young Julia Lohmann from German recover bones and other animal waste materials to turn them into design objects: lamps, vases and silverware.

She graduated at The Royal College of Art and at first her graduation show appears repulsive and callous: a series of lamps made from sheep’s stomachs called Flock.

Have a look at the image below, one of the “light’s series triggers feelings oscillating between attraction and disgust, the former through their warm luminosity and the latter as soon as one learns more about their material origins. The honey-combed texture of the second stomach (every cow has four stomachs) envelopes the lights in a beautifuI, billowing lace.”

Lohmann says “You kill and cut up a cow and people are outraged. Yet we do that every day. And what percentage of that meat is being thrown away?” Lohmann’s work is an attempt to create something useful from every piece of the dead carcass – even the cavity.

Good luck Julia, we trust in your idea.