Lets face it. There are plenty of design companies out there working tirelessly to come up with green and sustainable ways to build their products. It's the big thing right now, and so it should be. Here is a little tiny survey on brand new recycled design that I'm excited about today.
In a month it will be my one year wedding anniversary to my amazing wife, who (thank G-D) either; puts up with, or agrees with my anal design aesthetic at home. That date will also mark one year since I received one of my most beloved gifts from my wife - my Narwhal. The Narwhal Company had a very simple idea: re-use beautiful vintage fabrics of ties found at thrift stores and turn them into mens wallets. From your token fathers day tie to its one-year-later fathers day wallet, no one thought to put two and two together before these guys. It makes sense, it's green, and every single wallet is different. Not only can you peruse their well designed online store to pick your favourite, and then one refresh later notice it immediately erased from the site and mailed to your door... but it also fulfills my yearning for the thinnest wallet ever. Sure, I'm a thin guy with only a thin tie - but even though it doesn't rhyme, Narwhal's thin wallets are made from beautifully patterned silk (!) and so they allow room for all the cards you never need, paper money and more, without making it uncomfortable to sit down on that favourite perspex chair of yours. There's nothing like knowing you own great design, but there's absolutely nothing like knowing you're the only one on the planet that owns it.
Although too loud for my two bedroom apartment, Isabel Quiroga's "Superused: Table and a Cabinet" might work in your home if you love you some recycled table on table action. This aesthetic of throwing together old furniture in the hopes that its new configuration might lead to an aesthetically pleasing and somewhat Rococo rendition of IKEA's attractively priced TV storage units is popping up in design studios all over. I think it's brilliant, and I want one, when I have a bigger place.
In a month it will be my one year wedding anniversary to my amazing wife, who (thank G-D) either; puts up with, or agrees with my anal design aesthetic at home. That date will also mark one year since I received one of my most beloved gifts from my wife - my Narwhal. The Narwhal Company had a very simple idea: re-use beautiful vintage fabrics of ties found at thrift stores and turn them into mens wallets. From your token fathers day tie to its one-year-later fathers day wallet, no one thought to put two and two together before these guys. It makes sense, it's green, and every single wallet is different. Not only can you peruse their well designed online store to pick your favourite, and then one refresh later notice it immediately erased from the site and mailed to your door... but it also fulfills my yearning for the thinnest wallet ever. Sure, I'm a thin guy with only a thin tie - but even though it doesn't rhyme, Narwhal's thin wallets are made from beautifully patterned silk (!) and so they allow room for all the cards you never need, paper money and more, without making it uncomfortable to sit down on that favourite perspex chair of yours. There's nothing like knowing you own great design, but there's absolutely nothing like knowing you're the only one on the planet that owns it.
Umbra is a fantastic design company well known in dorm rooms across america for their conveniently priced rubbish bins. A few steps into their huge pink Toronto flagship store will convince you that there is way more going on for Umbra than two-way swinging trash lids in any colour imaginable. Umbra has also come up with some simple, recycled design that challenges its superior and doesn't leave multiple holes after I realize that I didn't pin my to-do list up straight enough - I love my recycled paper "Pulp Bulletin Board"!
Although too loud for my two bedroom apartment, Isabel Quiroga's "Superused: Table and a Cabinet" might work in your home if you love you some recycled table on table action. This aesthetic of throwing together old furniture in the hopes that its new configuration might lead to an aesthetically pleasing and somewhat Rococo rendition of IKEA's attractively priced TV storage units is popping up in design studios all over. I think it's brilliant, and I want one, when I have a bigger place.
Some recycled design is fantastic, and some miss the mark. Some prove better than their ridiculously priced infamous originals (see below left - brought to you by Design Without Reach) and some just make me laugh (see below right - brought to you by Rodrigo Piwonka).
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