3D Portraits Made From Phone Books

Alex Queral creates amazing three-dimensional portraits by carving faces of famous people into recycled phone books.

Using a very sharp knife, the artist carefully peels away the pages like the skin of an onion to reveal the portrait within.

More details here.

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15th Avenue E Coffee & Tea by Starbucks

Repurposed and reimagined, Starbucks has gone back to basics with the launch of their 15th Avenue E Coffee and Tea store. The first of three experimental stores in Seattle, this Capitol Hill location loses the ubiquitous Starbucks branding and adopts the ambience of a traditional neighborhood coffeehouse. Completely gutted and redesigned using a plethora of recycled, reclaimed and refurbished eco-friendly materials, this old store is now primed and ready to play neighborhood host to live music and poetry readings.

Is anyone loving this as much as I am? Gorgeous....

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Recycled Cassette Tape Portraits

Erika Iris Simmons, a talented self-taught artist, creates amazing portraits of famous musicians out of recycled audio cassette tapes.

You can view the entire “Ghost in the Machine” series of cassette tape portraits at here.

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Typographic Mobile From Veer

Each set of characters is laser cut from recycled back card and lined with colorful press sheets from Veer’s past marketing pieces. The typeface is Clarendon modified with Baskerville ornamentation.

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Recycled Food Packaging Lights

Anke Weiss, a talented Dutch artist, has designed a series of lights made from recycled food and drink packaging.

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The Dot Grid Book

The Dot Grid Book was designed by the Behance team in response to requests from graphic designers.The Dot Grid was developed as an alternative to traditional lines and boxes. The light geometric dot matrix serves as a subtle guide for your notations and sketches.

The Dot Grid Book's cover is a unique suede-to-the-touch hard cover. The pages are made of 80lb Premium Blend paper with a subtle texture (30% post-consumer recycled), double perforated, and three-hole punched between both perforations for maximum flexibility.

Check it out here.

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Newspaper Ballet Flats

Colin Lin used recycled newspaper to create environmentally friendly ballet flats that are crafted from recycled Chinese language newspapers that are woven into a lattice pattern, then dipped in plastic for weather protection and durability.
Buy them here.

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Sculptural Concrete Tiles

Lightweight concrete tiles that are beautiful and sculptural. They are made from Dexterity™, a modern concrete containing 38% recycled material by volume. Check them out.

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Digital Mona Lisa

In the lobby of the Asus Headquarters, a Mona Lisa made entirely from recycled motherboards.

"The work represents two things: a reminder of the technology that Asus built its fortune on and the company’s ethos to encourage and support any kind of crazy ideas."

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