Featuring- recycled shopping bags

It looks like you don't need to spend a lot of money to make cool illuminating installation art. The Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain recently featured these cloud-like lamps made of 80 recycled shopping bags.

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Killing the Earth

The skull scarf is actually a skull-Earth scarf. Showing the skull morphed into the Earth image is something quite edgy and should be given serious consideration, beyond the fashion filter.

i think this is a very clever design.. and could be a great marketing scheme for many things.. and could be taken much further than a fashion accessory.
yay creativity.

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i have to go fill up my water-bottlebox...

can YOU imagine buying boexs of water?...

hmmm... water-box just sounds silly

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Pollution Sensitive by 2nd Skin

It is one thing to be concerned about a ‘bad hair day’, but imagine wearing smart fashion that alerts you to the threat of a ‘bad air day’.


Stephanie Sandstrom’s EPA Dress, currently on view in the San Francisco Exploratorium’s 2nd Skin Exhibition, responds to bad air – and that’s not all, it cleverly creates the wrinkles to prove it! Looking crumpled and tired may no longer be an indicator of a late night out, but rather an intelligent way of interpreting your surroundings as well as detecting lurking health hazards. And if that’s not enough to get you totally charged up, consider the Piezing motion-powered dress that redefines future-forward fashion with femme-bot sex appeal.


Designer Sandstrom has embedded her EPA dress with sensors that are able to intelligently read the surrounding atmosphere and in turn create telling kinks in the fabric’s surface. On days when the air quality is particularly poor, the EPA dress looks as if it has been pulled out of the laundry bin or from the back of one’s closet. It’s a scary prospect to think that our clothes might take on a texture of their own, but if this is a viable way for us to see our true selves or rather the state of our environment, well then, we are all for it!.

story and photos via INHABITAT
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Paper or Plastic Leather?

This idea steams from the trend of re-usable bags in todays society, use this look-a-like paper bag made entirely from leather to transport groceries to and from your car!

OR

instead of using a purse made of leather.. use this one made entirely of paper?

if it helps, it is made from 100% recycled materials! =)

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Catch Of The Day campaign

The American association for the protection of oceans & beaches has partnered with "Surfrider Foundation" as well as communications agency Satch Satch & LA to launch a guerrilla marketing campaign called "Catch of the Day " ...
Packaged in real packaging, waste collected at beaches across the Atlantic have been placed in supermarket shelves to increase consumer awareness to the problems related to increased waste and irreversible harm they could cause on our fresh food such that fish living in this environment.

On the label you will be able to find the type litter and the amount recovered. This high-impact campaign that has managed to generate the expected shock! Hoping that it would result in eco-responsible actions in the future!

mad props boys and girls! this is a totally awesome way to increase awareness!

& thanks Trendy Girl & Surfrider Foundation =)

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