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When his brother handed him a stack of broken skateboard decks, Jason Podlecki was inspired to play with the consistent breaking patterns and developed the Deckstool.


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“Kotik Design launches their online store or unique packaging based jewelry: “A good look around will reveal the variety of materials that surrounds us wherever we turn, in part noble-precious stones, silver and gold. In part valuable and necessary and then – some are useless. Among the latter, are all materials and elements that terminated their purpose, their reason of existence and thus became worthless objects’ almost transparent, scrap. We look at them and see the best raw materials for our design.” TheDieline.com: Package Design: Kotik: Jewelry Made From Packaging


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“The husband-and-wife team of designers Jeffrey McGrew and Jillian Northrup are the force behind Because We Can, a design-build company that specializes in sustainable interior design and custom furniture. The California-based company uses only sustainable, reclaimed and/or eco-friendly products, and it’s hard not to be impressed with the results, like their reclaimed lumber benches for the offices of solar power company SunPower Corporation. ” Because We Can’s gi-normous benches made from reclaimed lumber - Core77


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“Ansie of Sol y Sombra shows you how to take a soda can and upcycle them into these tin can stars which she used for her tin can star mobile.”  Craftzine.com blog : Tin Can Stars


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