“Bel & Bel is a creative studio-workshop opened in 2006. It is located in Viladecans (Barcelona). It is a seventeenth century country estate house which, after a thorough process of rehabilitation, became our creative space where developing our creations.”

Bel & Bel’s artists write: “We admire the brilliant design of classical vehicles as the legendary Vespa Scooter or our beloved SEAT 600. From that admiration we began to work with these old pieces in order to give validity to its great style.”

“We are young, creative and contemporary artists. We appreciate the Art surrounding us, we live it and we adapt it.
For us, there are other ways of approaching Art to the public apart from Museums and galleries. From this intention we decided to create an open art space.
From the opening of our space, we have tried to open our as a meeting point for other artists, film makers, musicians, etc with the aim of finding a common ground to set up and share projects.”
Have a look at Bel & Bel’s porfolio and enjoy their creative-eco minds!

The lottery ticket creations were sculpted by Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom, for their exhibition “Ghost of a Dream”: the two graduates in 2004 & 2005 from the Rhode Island School of Design were fascinated by the perpetual discarding of lottery tickets, and decided to turn fascination into art.

To know about Ghost of Dream upcoming exibithion have a look at their website!

Enjoy now your green life reusing your bus, train, daily tickets to create your own piece of art!

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!

With great pleasure FreeStyle Reloaded introduce you a new Italian Eco-Artist, Paolo Lo Giudice: “Who makes intellectual work usually, in his free time, needs a manual jobs to get off from a sedentary lifestyle. I started 10 years ago looking at the pieces of broken moto bikes from my sons, combined that with a passion for modern and contemporary art. Now I use plastic, wood, leather and metal who offers more possibilities of composition and it’s very challenge!”

“I wondered if when an object ceases its original function, automatically becomes a waste. I think that the end of the objects depends on the person who takes care of them. Personally I can recover and reuse things trying to give them a new aesthetic dimension thus prolonging their life cycle”.

In 2004 Paolo started with his first exibithion to bring his unique creations all around Italy and never stopped! To find out more have a look at FreeStyle Reloaded’s site or to Paolo Lo Giudice’s gallery.

See you soon,
Cristina Savi – FreeStyle Edition.

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.

Haroshi makes these crazy art pieces recycling old used skateboards. The most important style is the wooden mosaic; skateboards may seem like they’re all in the same shape, but actually, their structure varies according to the factory, brand and popular skaters’ signature models.

With his experience and almost crazy knowledge of skateboards, Haroshi is able to differentiate from thousands of used deck stocks, which deck fits with which when stacked.

After the decks are chosen and stacked, they are cut, shaven, and polished with his favorite tools. By coincidence, this creative style of his is similar to the way traditional wooden Japanese Great Buddhas are built. 90% of Buddha statues in Japan are carved from wood, and built using the method of wooden mosaic; in order to save expense of materials, and also to minimize the weight of the statue.

Hiroshi says : “I believe that if the small things we do can connect to sustainability then we’re doing something right. I’m satisfied in my effort when people look at products and start thinking of ways to recycle”.

“Computers are something we use daily. We work on them, we learn on them, we have fun on them, we explore the world on them. We make them to fit our personalties, but all you see is just your screen. The rest is pretty boring.. black boxes.. black keyboards.. (how about the years of beige, now that was awful) Still, they really don’t fit our surroundings, our decor, our homes, office or business” says the Designer Woodguy on the OldTimeComputer Atelier.

“I have been addicted to Macs for too long…since the days of the Color Classic…and I been hotrodding them internally for years.. making them faster and faster and fixing broken computers..You see I like to tinker. I am a hot-rodder… I build old Woodies (wood body cars from the 30’s) and build them from scratch. So now I cut up computers and offering these one off works to a select lucky few, they all take a long time to build, so they will not be in production. This is just a hobby and something I enjoy and put my heart into…”

Have a look at Woodguy’s shop and enjoy!

That’s the amazing idea of Kipkay

And now, to Recycle you Vinyl into an amazing Record Bowl you need:
1) old vinyl record album
2) large ovenproof bowl
3) oven
4) oven gloves
… have a look at the video below ….

Recycle Your Record Albums! Make A Funky Bowl! – These bloopers are hilarious

Deeply thanks to Kipkay for sharing this!

Robert Bradford, an english artist born in London, began in 2004 experimenting with a series of sculptures which utilise plastic toys as their main modelling material, and which have now attracted consistent international attention. After trials with two unsatisfactory construction methods, he began screwing the toys into wooden armatures, which proved both strong and highly adaptable as a method.

“One day about four years ago out in the studio I was looking into my childrens box of outgrown / discarded toys which happened to be stored in the same building and responded to the random collection of colours shapes and forms they made. I figured that if I could find a way of putting them together to constitute a larger form they would have great potential as larger scale sculpture.”

“Some people of course just say they are rubbish which of course is perfectly true! Some find the sculptures beautiful/ curious/ scary/ weird/ emotional and etc. (which considering all they are really are , is bits of what is usually seen as trash) is great.”

He has exhibited widely and has work in public and private collections in England and America.

Amazing artist http://www.robertbradford.co.uk/

Giovanni Scafuro is an italian artist who began to work in artisans shops where he learned and applied the art of these amazing manual trades to create complementary furnishings.

Daily use objects change image! He says “this is a change of route in object’s life, thanks to recycle and reuse concept”. His true love goes to forks and so he’ve created jewels and house furnishing reusing them.

Objects and materials are for Giovanni an inexhautible source of inspiration and life interpretation: his manufactoring is in continuous metamorphosis, indeed… in progress!

And now Have a look at Giovanni Scafuro’s website