I am 100% going to make this. GIFT IDEAS: diy. Better than Recycling. Mechanical Iris Greeting Card. The Wallflower. Bulb05.jpg 350×455 pixels. DIY: Make Natural Non Toxic Dye. This week I have been spending a good deal of time in the kitchen, cooking up natural dyes.
I am actually surprised that after 7 years of art in college I had never learned to make paints, toxic or non toxic. But after reading Autumn’s post about how to make your own milk paint, I got to thinking even deeper into how to make pigments since the colored pigment can be as toxic as the binder. What I found out was a creative revelation that I can not stop cooking up!
15 Recycled Lights And Lamps. Daisuke Hiraiwa. Plastic Spoon Chandelier by Daisuke Hiraiwa. We’re perpetually amazed by the way that Japanese designer Daisuke Hiraiwa transforms everyday objects into striking examples of found design, and we were particularly impressed with his incredible line of Indication chandeliers – made from recycled plastic spoons.
Exhibited at this year’s ICFF, each one is completely composed of clear plastic spoons that have been punctured with hundreds of tiny holes to allow light to filter through them in beautiful ways. In creating his Indication chandeliers Daisuke was inspired by shoals of fish in the sea and the result is simply breathtaking.