Casualties of War: Special Toy Soldiers

Soldiers who since return from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan are involved in brawls, beatings, rapes, drunk driving, drug deals, domestic violence, shootings, stabbings, kidnapping and suicides.

Three times as many veterans and active service members are dying soon after returning home than those being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

We hear little about the personal hell soldiers live through after returning home.
This is a tribute to them. By Dorothy.

Its pretty harsh but definitely a strong statement. Wonder if there is a similar version of the innocent victims that die during the wars…

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Cardboard USB Drive Concept

Art Lebedev has come up with the idea of making USB flash drives on cardboard, which can be easily torn from a strip, and you can write down the file content on the exterior with a pen and share it!

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Post It Love!

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Modernizing The Christmas Tree

A "modern" twist to the natural and synthetic trees we've grown accustomed to!
Made with 100% recycled cardboard.

Get you Christmas tree here.

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Toy Army Costume

"That was Lucca Comics & Games, a comics/cosplay/rpg/whatever festival which takes place every year in Lucca, Italy."

Nicely done!

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File Formats Go Green!!!

The WWF format is a PDF that cannot be printed out. It’s a simple way to avoid unnecessary printing. So here’s your chance to save trees and help the environment. Decide for yourself which documents don't need printing out – then simply save them as WWF.

SAVE AS WWF, SAVE A TREE

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Food Packaging Into Haute Couture

French designer Katell Gelebart has created a colourful collection of wearable food packaging.

Working with Art D'Eco, a designers' collective that she helped found, DesignBoom reports that Gelebart's motivation to create her line comes from the idea waste is a resource with lots of potential.

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Urinal And Sink Combo

Eco urinal concept, designed by Yeongwoo Kim, recycles the water that is used for washing hands to flush the urine.

The sink with an integrated urinal will also help free up some extra space in the bathroom.

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Lugum: An Elegant Alternative To Plastic Cups

"Lugum" by Kimming Yap of Creativeans, a design studio based in Milan and Singapore.
This simple monochrome crockery set has all the benefits of disposables, without being cheap-looking.

Made out of the biodegradable cereplast bioplastic, "Lugum" is also a more eco-friendly alternative to those plastic cups.

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Starbucks Recycled Mugs

These recycled ceramic mugs were brought to life in a zero-waste factory in Japan, which reuses the clay of former mugs and dishes to create new ones. It’s a story of reuse and renewal that is told from mug to package. The particles coming together to form words and shapes represent a renewed respect for resources.

Alice Friedel found the way to give broken pieces of ceramic a new life and make them  beautiful and whole again!

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A Cleaner Future

To raise awareness about clean energy, you can spill on any website with this online app from A Cleaner Future!

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Shopping List Bag

This bag's pouch actually doubles as a reusable shopping list.
Available here.

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Meta-Housing: Super-Sized Hotel Made of Stacked-Up Homes

This new hotel in the Netherlands has sparked a great deal of conversation by using the traditional form of regional homes and cottages in a surrealistic stack (some even seeming to sit sideways or upside-down) as part of a relatively huge city-central structure.

The Inntel Hotel, designed by Molenaar & Van Winden Architecten + WAM Architecten features 160 rooms and sits 11 stories high, towering over much of its surroundings and sticking out for miles around – for better or worse – from its urban landscape. From their overall forms down to the white and green facades, wood-carved decor and window treatments, the component ‘houses’ in the design were patterned after actual conventional structures in the area.

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Coca Cola Recycled Bottle Chair

Coca Cola has teamed up with furniture manufacturer Emeco to create a special version of the iconic Navy Chair. Each chair will be made out of 111 recycled plastic Coke bottles.

Read more about it here.

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Gown Made From Recycled M&M Wrappers

TerraCycle’s Green Up Shop—a short-term showcase for the company’s upcycled products—as well as a life-size gown stitched from discarded candy wrappers.

TerraCycle commissioned the one-of-a-kind dress from Chicago couture designer Christina Liedtke, who was inspired by both the pop-up shop’s spring theme and Earth Day’s upcoming 40th anniversary.

To create the gown, more than 1,800 flowers were individually cut and sewn from 600 Peanut M&M wrappers, a time-consuming process that took over 100 hours of labor.

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Chewing Gum Bottle Design by Gonglue Jiang

“Green Seeds” chewing gum bottle designed by Gonglue Jiang. Featuring a skirt of sticky paper at the bottom of the bottle, and a temporary storage space for used gums.

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