How to reuse an old or broken umbrella? Here 3 creative & unique ideas:

Umbrella’s box magazines holder – thanks to Recycled Crafts Gossip

“Umbrella dryers”: simply use an umbrella to dry your clothes “hang it upside down by the handle for use” by Things Your GrandMother Knew

Umbrella as a sun shade, reusing only the covers thanks to Craftzine

That’s the amazing idea by Michele Made Me: she shares on her blog all the tips & tricks to create this great mirror and pencil case reusing old denim!
Below just an example to show you how simple and funny is to create your unique pieces of Art Tree for everyday life! And now have a look at Tree Mirror Tutorial or Tree Pencil Case Turoial by Michele Made Me.

And now have a look at Michele Made Me’s blog!

“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!

That’s the amazing idea by Michael Johansson: to get everything, regular and irregular, to turn into regularly ArtWorks. A kind of Tetris Art.

“I am intrigued by irregularities in daily life. Not those that appear when something extraordinary occurs, but those that are created by an exaggerated form of regularity. Colours or patterns from two separate objects or environments concur, like when two people pass each other dressed in the exact same outfit. Or when you are switching channels on your TV and realize that the same actor is playing two different roles on two different channels at the same time. Or that one day the parking lot contained only red cars” he writes.

“These irregularities, these coincidences, are another focus of my artwork.” And now have at Michael Johansson’s site to find out all his amazing ideas.

Few days ago “sailing” at etsy I found this amazing artist: Ann P. Smiths. “ANN SMITH spends her days making little robotic like figurines from broken electronics and machine parts. The sculptures are sold in stores and galleries throughout the US and have been published as illustrations in magazines and brochures. Her Clients include Chevron lubricants division, Cricket Magazine, and Cicada Magazine.

“Ann’s illustrations have been selected to appear in the Communications Arts Illustration Annual #337, the American Illustration 25 Annual, and the 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 7. Recently, She has received both local and international recognition from Wired Magazine (US), PBS Boston, DPI Magazine (Taiwan), Architectural Digest (Germany), GQ (Germany), and The Discovery Channel Canada. ”

Have a look at Ann’s “burrowburrow” website to find out all the details about her creations, to buy them or simply to get inspirations about how to reuse your everyday broken electronics and machine parts.

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!

Oh, what a great wow when today I found out about Lamponi Slamps: from old stuff that we throw away every day they created amazing lamps. Look: how cool are they?

Instead of heading to the art supply store Lamponi Slamps just collect common trash and turn it into works of amazing art.
Look at Lamponi Slamps’s website and enjoy your green life!

That’s the creative work of the young artist Kyle Bean: black and white Honda Fireblade suspended from one side of a set of scales, with a fully disassembled Fireblade balancing these out with its hundreds of parts hanging individually on wires of varying lengths. Window display in the world famous Selfridges department store on Oxford Street in London.

The display theme is ‘The Conservation of Mass’, with the displays cleverly and innovatively highlighting how matter cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.

Below the video. Thanks to Honda & Kyle Bean for this great creative reusing idea!

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.

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!