Upcycling records into business card holder

upcycled record business card holder
You can find your own Tina Turner or Kenny Rogers records and upcycle them into a business card holder.

Israelis are coming around and getting into the recycling spirit. We couldn’t hold ourselves back from posting again on Groovy, the designers who have designed a multi-purpose matkot chair.

matkot beach chair
The chair which also holds matkot paddles for ultimate fun on a Tel Aviv beach

Today’s find is a record business card holder.

While records are pretty much obselete in this part of the world (unless you are a DJ), business cards aren’t.

Update 2021: maybe better keep the records for listening. Going analogue has a charm of its own and records are worth more in one piece than cut up as a card holder.

More Groovy designs below:

Phone upcycled into vase
Phone vase
matkot ball chair
Matkot ball chair

records card holder

phone upcycled to clock
Upcycled phone clock
Karin Kloosterman
Karin Kloostermanhttp://www.greenprophet.com
Karin Kloosterman is an award-winning journalist, innovation strategist, and founder of Green Prophet, one of the Middle East’s pioneering sustainability platforms. She has ranked in the Top 10 of Verizon innovation competitions, participated in NASA-linked challenges, and spoken worldwide on climate, food security, and future resilience. With an IoT technology patent, features in Canada’s National Post, and leadership inside teams building next-generation agricultural and planetary systems — including Mars-farming concepts — Karin operates at the intersection of storytelling, science, and systems change. She doesn’t report on the future – she helps design it. Reach out directly to [email protected]
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