Tag: recycle
How To: Transform Old Books Into Holiday Pumpkins
Whenever I write an article about cutting up old books to recycle them into a new use, part of me cringes. I know that books are becoming more obsolete, and especially if they are damaged, many people throw them away or toss them in the recycle bin anyway, so I usually try to remind myself that givi ...
A Disease Called Humans: A Creative Comic About The Earth
One thing that we love at Bit Rebels is the planet. Since we all live so far apart from each other, we feel the distance and the vastness of the Earth on a weekly basis. As technology continues to make our world smaller by connecting us all in ways we never thought possible even a decade ago, the fa ...
Gorgeous Dress Made From Old Magazines & Garbage Bags
Let me just start this article by saying if I tried to make a dress out of old magazines and garbage bags, it would look like something fit for the trash can, so the fact that this artist can make it look couture blows my mind. Gone are the days when fashion designs created from recycled household p ...
Beautiful Lingerie Crafted From Aluminum Cans
We've featured a lot of interesting bras and panties on Bit Rebels in the past, and it always surprises me how lingerie inspires some artists. I like to shop at Victoria's Secret as much as anyone else, but we all know it's a little pricey. That's why I published How To: Make Edible Panties From Noo ...
4 Clocks Only A Geek Would Hang On The Wall
On one of my birthdays not too long ago, I was given a clock to put up in my studio. It was one of those melted vinyl clocks which the gifter had carefully created himself, and it was one of the best gifts I have ever received. It's always special to receive something that has been hand-crafted so i ...
Creative Color Collages Made From Trash On The Beach
We've written a lot of articles on Bit Rebels about recycled trash. It almost seems like over the past year or so it's become stylish and vogue to recycle trash. I love that because any steps we can take to clean up our environment is a step in the right direction.
I don't know about you, but whe ...
An Outdoor Cinema Created From Abandoned Refrigerators
One of the best types of creativity is the kind that we see when artists and designers create something that is not only interesting to look at and useful, but it also helps the environment. We see a lot of examples of this since together we are all learning the importance of recycling and reusing. ...
How To: Recycle & Reuse Items For Your Garden
We are big fans of reusing and recycling at Bit Rebels. The whole concept of giving a second life to something that might have before been considered trash is becoming more and more popular. Several years ago when well known artists started making things with trash, their creations usually looked ki ...
Scent Of Flower: Creative Art Made From Flowers
Most creative artists look at the world a little differently than everyone else. They see opportunities to change the world and help the environment by simply using their imaginations. Instead of seeing problems and limitations, they see beauty and possibilities.
For example, consider these compa ...
Elegant Gown Created From Recycled Plastic Bottles
Back in 2009 when we first started writing about recycled designs, I'll admit that most of them, although they were all fabulous, looked very homemade if you know what I mean. Now, two years later, the recycled designs we see are very different. Creating things with renewable resources is becoming a ...
Ghana’s eWasteland: Living On The Legacy Of The Digital World
The shocking pictures below by Andrew McConnell were taken at the Agbogbloshie dump in Accra, Ghana. It's a place where much of the discarded computer equipment and other electronics from the United States, Europe and other countries ends up. Over 3,000 people live here, in the slums, and they make ...
Elegant Lamps Created From Recycled Juice Boxes
Tetra Pak is a company originating in Sweden that makes boxes (called Tetraboxes) in which food and mostly drinks are packaged in. Here in the States, we call those packages "juice boxes," although there are a lot more than just juice drinks packaged in those containers.
On his blog, Ed Chew, a d ...
Recycled Floppy Disk Art: Retro Technology Gets A New Life
Of all the creative artwork I've written about on Bit Rebels over the past two years, this is definitely one of my favorites. It combines technology, painting, recycling and a human touch, all flavored with that retro feeling we love so much. I remember when I first saw the works of Nick Gentry. It ...
For Music Lovers: The Handmade Guitar String Bracelet
This is creativity at its best. Who would ever think to hand roll vintage sheet music and carefully coil steel guitar strings to create a beautiful bracelet? Tanith Rohe, a jewelry maker from the San Fransico Bay area, did. She is a self-proclaimed urban archaeologist and thrift store shopper.
Ac ...
Recycle Flashmob: The Roar Of A Thousand Environmentalists
If you recycle then you know the benefits of it. It's not only good for the environment, but you also get a few cents for it or whatever. There are still way too many bottles and cans that go missing in the world which litter and pollute our planet more and more by the day.
We are quite lazy when ...