MacGyver Challenge: Bumbershoot Special Edition
Calling all music-loving MacGyvers! In case you missed the deadline for our most recent round of the Challenge, never fear: you’ve now got a special-edition situation on your hands…
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Issue 36
The Re-Fashion Issue
Category: Raw Materials
Taking it all off: Reverse graffiti swaps spray paint for soap
The Reverse Graffiti project has turned the concept of street art on its head. Instead of spray painting city surfaces, the Reverse Graffiti team artfully cleans up urban dirt and soot…
Just a spoonful: Spoonflower custom fabric
Feeling stymied by the fabric choices out there? Yeah, me too. So I was stoked to see that fabric is the next medium on its way to being fully customizable…
The growing collective
I’m a sucker for collectives. Five years ago, I was pulled into New York City’s flash mobs. Now I’m all over a new call to participate from David Cohen, an artist and social activist from Brooklyn who’s organized a mission called The Seed Project…
Eco-message in a bottle: The United Bottle project
ReadyMakers are well acquainted with the concept of upcycling—using would-be trash to create a functional object (natch). But there’s something about beer bottles-turned-bricks that really brings the idea to life…
Eat on this: Garnish a tabletop with leftovers
To fans of Ikea Hacker, the Swedish megaretailer’s furniture pieces are merely blank canvases for their design experiments. The blog catalogs all kinds of DIY mods you can make to the store’s overly basic particleboard staples, like using leftover wallpaper to…
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