Articles in the Eco Art Category

Get A Cute Stool For Your Child
Posted in Designer, Earth, Eco Art, Eco-Friendly, Eco-friendly products, concept on 27 August 2008

Astronomer stools

I have the latest addition for your green interior decor but hey it’s meant for the kids’ room. Yes, the colourful Astronomer Stool by QCollection Junior will win you over with its ‘cuteness’. Specially aimed at children, these handy stools are basically meant to help kids reach about things in a world that doesn’t run according to their height specifications. In addition to this wonderful feature, these brick-coloured stools can also be used for seating.
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Getting Beautiful, Naturally!
Posted in Animals, Designer, Earth, Eco Art, Eco-Friendly, Eco-friendly products, Environment, Fashion, Go green, Green, Plants, concept on 26 August 2008

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I know how frustrating it is to pick the right beauty product for you. Is it chemical? Will it suit my skin? What if it doesn’t? These are just one-tenth of the questions that hound you when on that search trip to the supermarket. Not anymore because futurenatural is here. An online hub founded by famous makeup artist Emma Pezzak , it is an ode to nature and its beauties. And that does not mean at the cost of quality and style.
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Rod Surber’s Treesome
Posted in Earth, Eco Art, Eco-Friendly, Eco-friendly products, Environment, Go green, Green, Plants, Recycling, concept on 6 August 2008

Artefacts created by Rod Surber
It’s a fallen tree that inspires eco-artist Rod Surber to make art. The reason is simple. When a tree falls in the forest, Rod hears it. Inspired by the easy availability of local timber that usually rots away, he decided to convert this natural resource into art. Believe it or not but Rod has created one-of-a-kind goblets, platters, bowls, bells, boxes and what not just out of scraps of wood.

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Joshua Allen Harris’ Plastic Polar Bear on New York City Subway: Eco-Art from Plastic
Posted in Eco Art, Recycling, World on 4 August 2008

 

Plastic bags and bottles do more than spread pollution. But hey become good only when they land in the hands of creative people like Joshua Allen Harris. His inflatable plastic bad subway art has got him a lot of recognition esply. his plastic polar bear-the symbol of climate change! This artist has his own style of churning out eco-art in form of recycled and reusable plastic bags and scraps sewn into different shapes and displayed over subways.  The white polar bear (which looks like a puppy) has drawn a lot of attention of passer-bys. Placed on subway grates the polar bear springs to life as it inflates when the train passes on the subterranean route and slowly fades away into a lump. The animated creativity reminds onlookers the fate of these majestic bears as they face extinction threat owning to Climate Change and Global Warming.

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Eco-friendly Interiors Get A New High
Posted in Architecture, Designer, Earth, Eco Art, Eco-Friendly, Eco-friendly products, Environment, Fashion, Go green, Green, concept on 4 August 2008

Eco-friendly interiors

The concept of eco-interiors was talked about at great length by Jeanie Pyun, editor of Sprig along with famous eco-interior designer Kelly LaPlante on Discussion on WashingtonPost.com. The strongest point of the show was the little tips that were offered to help you green your style. And that was not all as the hosts gave guidelines on finding healthy food and products. Even FAQs like “What is a green roof” and “What does VOC mean” were answered by them. Since the discussion was hosted online, the two eco-friendly women could post web-links directly to the chat to give readers easy, direct access to the tips being discussed. Other areas of concern were, “why it is still so difficult to find healthy products and why are they not cheaper?” as well as “what is a single mom hoping to green on a limited budget?”

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Recycled Robot Jewelry
Posted in Eco Art, Eco-Friendly on 28 July 2008

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Robot Jewelry makes funkiest robot earrings, pendants and ornaments from used parts of old TV and VCR. The original, humorous bots are assemble from capacitors, wires, resistors - anything that can be form body, arms, legs and head of his small creations. Robot Jewelry has been making these robots since 1980’s which makes him an Eco action jewelry artisan long before it is became in thing.

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Eco-art straight from the Junkyard!
Posted in Animals, Designer, Eco Art on 28 July 2008

This world is full of creative people who like to stretch their creativity in unusual manners. Today dear readers, i came across a lovely collection of eco-art. Some artistic individuals have taken inspiration from the animal kingdom and crafted fishes, frogs, spiders, birds, crickets etc from junkyard stuff! Metal scrapes pins, wires, used engines parts, ball-bearings, pistons etc. You name it and nothing is being left from getting converted into something as beautiful as these crafted animals are!

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Mathieu Lehanneur’s River Plant Aquarium – Modernist Eco-marvel!
Posted in Designer, Eco Art, Eco-Friendly, Eco-friendly products, Go green, Green, concept on 24 July 2008

His designs are modernist marvels and his intentions reveal a fashionable way of dealing with the global food crisis. He is French designer Mathieu Lehanneur and his latest ecological – wonder design: The Local River Plant Aquarium has created ripples of excitement among viewers at the Artists Space in NY. His aquarium which is a unique combination of DIY vegetable garden and fish hatchery was on display from April 21st to June 21st, 2008.


His creation is an installation of local river ecosystem self contained in special glass tanks which is connected to the mini vegetable garden above which purifies the air in a neat glass capsule.

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PUBLIC FARM 1: Interactive Urban Gardening at PS1 Gallery
Posted in Eco Art, Eco-Friendly, Eco-friendly products on 22 July 2008

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PS1 Gallery current Art Center, an arm of MOMA, celebrates 10th year of Warm Up, PS1 Gallery is a annual summer music series, in New York. This year folks who go to catch DJs and live music will be have opening to also visit a farmers market, dip their feet in a cool pool, and in general chill in shade of Public Farm 1, by Work Architecture Company.

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Singapore’s Latest Green Skyscraper Design
Posted in Architecture, Designer, Eco Art, concept on 21 July 2008

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The Singapore skyline design has been receiving greener these days with latest development from some of world is mainly renowned architects. The latest design to join trend is a latest futuristic green building from architect. A research and development complex, this design will be adorning Singapore as island nation’s the majority eco-friendly skyscraper.

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