Don't we all have big dreams when we buy a lottery ticket? Even if we don't truly believe it will be the big winner that will change our lives, we hold out some amount of hope that we'll get ...
Nick Georgiou is a Queens-born artist known for his use of the printed word as an artistic medium, but not in the way you think. He creates creatures and art pieces out of discarded newspaper and ...
Tires are boring. Except for the occasional horror experienced when one bursts or hits a nail, they're simply an additional expense for your car. It's amazing then, to see how many uses, both ...
They may not play music any longer, but these records definitely have something to say. Artist Carlos Aires created this series, entitled “Love is in the Air”, by using a digital process to ...
Centuries ago, there was very little garbage, but the little bits of this and that buried in the ground are now fascinating visual clues to a life long gone. Trash today is much easier to find ...
We rarely give much thought to the humble toilet paper roll – and why should we? It’s just a piece of cardboard, destined for the recycling bin, a carrier for a necessary but unremarkable ...
Cardboard is a mundane material, so often cast off and thrown away or recycled – but these 12 artists have transformed it into objects that are anything but disposable. From expressive little ...
The cliche is that "one man's trash is another man's treasure" but the author of that phrase probably never realized how strangely true it could turn out to be in the form of artistic upcycling. ...
New and innovative products from ordinary objects are being conceived and produced all the time, but what about new ideas for already-familiar materials?What would it take to get you to see ...
