Recycling things will be very creative most of the times. Designer’s creative minds are working amazingly, when it comes to creating something useful out from recycled items. Look at the recycled robot that is made out of recycled typewriter parts by Jeremy Mayer. Having been living in a small town Iowa, typewriter was already an interesting thing to Jeremy. Out of that interest, Jeremy had created the recycled robot without gluing, soldering, welding or any other means of assembly. What he did is entirely cold assembly, which is really amazing and impressing on his part. After reading this post, I am sure many of us will now hunt our old typewriters.

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Dubai seems to be unaffected with the financial crisis issue the world is experiencing right now. Another project with an estimated cost of US$95 billion, which is the Jumeira Gardens, is now revealed. SOM Chicago designs the project, and it consists of mixed-used developments that incorporate low, medium, and high-density zones suitable for business, residence, retail leisure, and recreation, which in turn includes a hotel, commercial retail and entertainment space with a total of 800,000-900,000 square meters. The structure has the Park Gate, which is a complex of six mid-rise towers that faces each other to form a grand garden space and will eventually create a shaded microclimate, which is perfect for its natural dessert climate.

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Sustainable designs are now becoming more and more common to almost all designers worldwide. Not just because they want to help the environment, sustainable designs are undoubtedly good-looking and very functional. Just like what the Dutch designers Rixt Reitsma and Lidewij Spitshuis did with their WeMade project. With the purpose of helping earthquake victim in Java Indonesia to have their source of income, the designers together with the local crafters came into a creative line of products including the bases made of pressed bamboo, accentuated with a colorful rajut (a kind of Indonesian crochet), soupper, Cocups, Roster, and Constructors. All of the products are really amazing.

Cocups (aove) is a series of six palmwood cups with a range of coloring: a gradient from white to blue.

Constructors (above) is a series of ceramic vases. The little blue detail, made from coconut shell, refers to the colonial history of The Netherlands. Its shape is inspired by the Dutch tiles you still can find in the palace of the Sultan in Yogyakarta.
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Creative, unique and eco-friendly products are not easy to create, that is why I truly respect those designers with creative, unique and useful items made of sustainable or recycled materials. When I see the tree trump vase from Takashimaya, I know this is a green product and will help save our mother earth when we will patronize this. I am right of my thinking because, the tree trump vase is a hand-carved product made from reclaimed wood. This will perfect warm up your rooms for it will bring back the nature into your room. Get one now and feel the beauty of nature inside your own house.

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Lighting system is very important since they are one of the basic needs especially at night. However, designer Peter Liversidge together with architect Asif Khan, they have created the wonderful and friendly Tetra Light. Its light is made from CNC machined aluminum and is fused using an adhesive same as that of the ones that hold aircraft wings together. On the other hand, the tetra lights diffuser is a custom-made hand-blown glass, and each component is available to be joined and re-arranged with the use of connecting tubes of different lengths. Each attractive color of the Tetra light is imparted through the stove-enameling process.

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