Upcycling: The process of taking something that’s essentially waste and moving it up the consumer-goods chain.
Coined by architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart in Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, and cited in last Thursday's New York Times by Etsy founder Robert Kalin in Romancing the Flat Pack: Ikea, Repurposed
Shown: Jack Rabbit's Famous Weiner Bench
2 comments:
I'll have to see if the library has this book. I love the idea of "upcycling". It's a very "Portland" idea!
Etsy's upcycling contest was *rad.* My favorite (biased) was this:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5224134
Reminds me of this...
http://hpnyknits.blogspot.com/2006/08/ecf-explosive-brides.html
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