Design
May 19, 2014

Eco-Friendly Skateboard is Made Using Recycled Fishing Nets

Fishing nets are not a material that you'd imagine a skateboard would be made of. The three friends who make up the company Bureo, however, know differently. Ben Kneppers, David Stover, and Kevin Ahearn worked in partnership with the creative collective Satori Movement and designer Gabriella Laruccia to craft The Minnow, a unique board that uses roughly 30 square feet of harvested fishing nets.

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Art
May 16, 2014

Endless Reflections Captured Inside of a Mirrored Box

At first glance, one might assume that the amazing creations seen here are the result of digital manipulations. However, in reality, each image is a photograph created inside of a square cube covered with mirrors on all six sides. Ron Brinkmann developed this MirrorBox with mirrored tiles and some duct tape.

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Art
May 14, 2014

Ice Books Embedded with Seeds are Released into Rivers

From 2007, Basia Irland has been creating ice books, sculptures that resemble books created with huge blocks of frozen river water and “engraved” with seeds from local plants. These ice books are released back into the river where they eventually melt. The seeds are dispersed into the stream, turning into plants along the riverbank.

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Art
May 13, 2014

Clever Series Illustrates Words that are Lost in Translation

Yiddish You've probably experienced something that's been “lost in translation,” meaning that there's no adequate equivalent for a foreign term. Don't feel bad – sometimes it's hard to capture the essence of a word in another language. This is the concept of New Zealand-based designer Anjana Iyer's series entitled Found in Translation. Through these images, she explains the idea behind words in German, Russian, and more that don't directly translate into English.

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