Here the 2 cute ideas with the Tutorials from A Lemon Squeezy to create your own personal basket for cycling chic! You can use old clothes and stuff around to be 100% Eco Fashion Cool!

KIDS BASKET:

She writes: “My son D had his birthday on Wednesday. He wanted a bike basket. Walmart’s cheapest basket was $15.00, and with my sons being so close, I knew that my other one would eventually want one as well. So that’s why I decided to make one instead!” I give a pic of what you need to create this:

and then have a look at A Lemon Squeezy Home’s site for the tutorial details! But this is not finish:

VINTAGE BASKET:

“I remember finishing boy basket, and thinking how pretty it could be for a girl with a few changes. So I re-designed the entire thing to fit an adult vintage style bike. *This basket actually fits my son’s child size bike, so it doesn’t even have to be only for an adult bike!”

I give a pic of what you need to create this and then have a look at A Lemon Squeezy Home’s site for the tutorial details!

have a green life!

Look, how amazing is it? That’s from a collaboration between Mekanism and Space Invader in 2006: three unique and original skateboards covered by a mosaic of Space Invaders handmade from old magic cubes stickers!

It’s to late for buying this stunning limited edition, but it’s never to late for creating your own one! Thanks again to Mekanism and Space Invader for sharing this!

That’s the elegant idea from Neal Bridgens handmade from brass, copper and even oak: “yes it’s real, not femo or glue or paint or found parts, it’s all hand made using jewellers techniques — it should probably outlive me (not the iPod mind you). It’s not particularly for sale, I use it and rather like it, but I’m not against offers being made…Much to my surprise about 20 people a day come by to look at this. Thanks for your interest! ”
I love deeply love that!

Don’t lose more time: have a look at the Neal Bridgens’s site to keep the great work up!

If it’s true that we, human beings, in 2010 spend more time on computer than reading a “classic paper book”, we can’t forget that books have plenty of life within them yet! And that’s the stunning idea from Mike Stilkey “Book Sculptures”

“Los Angeles native Mike Stilkey has always been attracted to painting and drawing not only on vintage paper, record covers and book pages, but on the books themselves.Using a mix of ink, colored pencil, paint and lacquer, Stilkey depicts a melancholic and at times a whimsical cast of characters inhabiting ambiguous spaces and narratives of fantasy and fairy tales. A lingering sense of loss and longing hints at emotional depth and draws the viewer into their introspective thrall with a mixture of capricious poetry, wit, and mystery. His work is reminiscent of Weimar-era German expressionism and his style has been described by some as capturing features of artists ranging from Edward Gorey to Egon Schiele.”

Have a look at Mike Stilkey’s Exhibitions to definitively fall in love with his mind!

This is the amazing idea by Justin Shull: a solar-powered vehicle that looks as a shurb: the driver uses video screens inside to see what’s going on outside. WOW BIS!!
Let me tell you that I usually hate cars but this “Terrestrial Shrub Rover” could become my best friend ever! Probably that’s not pratical for going by highway, but sure is perfect for everyday life.

Many thanks Justin Shull and big thanks to inabithat for sharing this great pictures.

From the stunning idea of Yuken Teruya: “Toilet rolls sprouting spreading branches are hung to create a “forest” hanging on the wall or hanging down from the ceiling. There is a moment when the hanging cut-out-parts start holding their branches and leaves on their own strength. It is as if I’m helping the paper awakens its ability to be an individual tree.”

And below “I cut out one side of disposable paper bags. Then I assemble a tree from the cut-out-part, stand each tree in the same bag that it came from. When you see it under the natural light, the delicate tree shows inside a paper bag, shows us the strength and the proof of existence of living tree” writes Yuken Teruya

I love Yuken Teruya’s introduction in his website: “manipulates everyday objects, transforming their meanings to reflect on contemporary society and culture. Cutting trees out of paper bags and cardboard toilet paper rolls, he creates meticulous and intricate art works, small and enchanting worlds, which relate to broader concerns. In each bag and roll, the shape of a tree is created without adding or removing anything, just by cutting out and folding the paper from the bag itself. Teruya’s works explore issues such as the growing consumerism of contemporary society, depleting natural resources and other problems associated with globalism, including the threat it poses to localized cultural traditions and identities”.

Have a look at Yuken Teruya’s Projects and enjoy your green life!

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.

Amazing idea from Nidhi Gupta: film roll lamp is made from spools of old film that are strung together and assembled into a circular shape.

If you like us love how the successive series of stills creates a shifting pattern as forgotten scenes weave a new narrative about sustainable design, vote for it now in inabitat ’s Spring Greening DIY Design Competition

Zenith Interiors celebrated the opening of its Melbourne showroom with a top-hat-themed party in March. Clarke Hopkins Clarke recycling the ZENITH Melbourne opening invite as their amazing hats! Yes, that’s terrificly stunning!

Ecouterre asked to John Leung and his team put together a Tutorial for their readers, so you can party hearty with waste paper from your own office!

Here just few images, to have a look at all the Tutorial visit Ecouterre’s website and enjoy to create yours!

“All vintage, any vintage. Most of my materials are from previous garments. I cut, hand paint, dye, bead and otherwise *mangle* to get what I want. Because of this everything is strictly speaking ONE-OF- KIND (OOAK)” says Delight Worthyn, the woman self taught artist, seamstress and milliner.

She creates lots of original and unique Wearable Pieces of Art but I’m crazy for her amazing hats:

“I am excited about a new technique for making headpieces (or whatever I end up calling them). All recycled fabrics. Mostly hand painted T shirts with some antique lace.”

…finally Delight Worthyn says “Believe it or not, all the silk in this headpiece is from previous garments. Even the birdcage veil is vintage, coffee brown and difficult to come by. Very limited supply. The flowers are all handmade and painted with fabric dyes to add depth. The flower centers are beaded by hand” … “Ok …I am not going to lie, there is quite a bit of labor here but results speak for themselves.”

Don’t lose any second: have a look at Delight Worthyn’s blog and enjoy!