Christine Lee has with the spirit to create by hand and the ambition to make the thrown away useful:

From my tendency to engage in highly process-driven tactile endeavors and my training in the craft based disciplines of woodworking and furniture design. i explore stretch and refine the typical associations and intended functions of mundane materials. My architecture and the natural environmnet, particularly where a strong connection exists between structure and site.

Nathan focuses most of his creative time on painting but when the mood strikes him he dabbles with found materials. more....

Handmade, omitting any use of a CNC machine and with upcycled cardboard, we present a simple chair unlike most cardboard designs made from new materials. As today’s recycled cardboard arrives at recycling centers folded up and dirty, it made sourcing for this project the most difficult part.

Thrown away paint and a big screen TV that has seen its episode of the simpsons enter the upcycled realm.

This is a little project I did for a friend that needed an umbrella stand. Above you see a banged up mailbox that someone threw away at the dump. more....

Jeremy Mayer's typewriter sculptures are meticulously created, as he states:

I disassemble typewriters and then reassemble them into full-scale, anatomically correct human figures. I do not solder, weld, or glue these assemblages together- the process is entirely cold assembly.

Currently residing in Palo Alto California, he began working with typewriters in Iowa in 1994. more....

Semi truck tires are 50% metal and 50% rubber and difficult to cut through, but have a strong frame that can easily support a persons weight and hold up vertically.

Round two of two fools thinking they can make something cool. We took Derek's smaller prototype version to lay out the mental blueprint and enlarged it and increased the light intensity with only three days to work with before he had to jet back to the east coast.

Sometimes the stars align and it’s beautiful outside or it’s just dumb-luck.  For any reason its always a joy to figure things out with like minded people than freaking more....