Etsy, for those who don’t yet know, is an online forum for handmade products. The handmade revolution is green in and of itself, since it attempts to reduce reliance on machine (and electricity powered) made products, but Etsy goes even greener than that. Etsy makes it easy to shop green by making it easy to […]
Apparently if you put your mind to it, you can recycle any kind of material. This Green Prophet had never heard of recycling silver, but thankfully it is not a foreign concept to jewelry designers who use it everyday and who don’t want to let any resource go to waste. Like Lily (or Lilyja) who […]
Brigitte Cartier, a French-born artist who has been living and creating in Tel Aviv for the past 15 years and who now comfortably tackles Israeli roads in her pick-up truck alongside her trusty dog, is the magician responsible for transforming the Hiria garbage dump into an upcycling design Mecca. Just check out the before and […]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MDxk0qAnu0[/youtube] Tel Aviv’s port (or “namal”) has in recent years become a trendy hot spot. A little too trendy. And often their trendiness does not go hand in hand with eco-friendliness. But sometimes it does, like with their (too chic and elitist for some) farmer’s market and, this month, with their Pop-Up Design Store, Rafsoda. […]
A beautiful, uber-designed kindergarten was recently completed in Ramat Hasharon, a suburb of Tel Aviv in Israel. A collaboration of Sarit Shani Hay (who makes unique toys, children’s furnishings, and textiles) and Lev-Gargir architects, the design philosophy for the space was that “the environment children grow up in strongly reflects how their sensibilities develop and […]
It’s not every day that you come across something called a “Feminist Woman Eco Art Doll” – whether you’re looking on Etsy or elsewhere. But for Dria Peterson, its creator, it is only natural. Because why wouldn’t you make new things out of recycled and vintage fabrics, and reclaimed handspun sheep’s wool? Oh, and did […]
Walking the streets of any modern city, you are likely to encounter wasted materials. Materials that – with a little imagination, skill, and love – could be transformed into something beautiful and new. Materials are thankfully being snatched up by design studios all over Tel Aviv in order to recycle and reclaim them. Some of […]
We’ve seen the upcycled wallets that Tel Aviv-based designer, Amit Brilliant, creates out of product packaging. And just a couple weeks ago we saw how Limor Matityahoo (aka EcobyLimitz) is exploring the use of fused plastic bags and plastic yarn to create mobiles and finger puppets and lots of other things. And now we will […]
Would you guess that the lamp above is made out of 80% recycled materials? Just one of the many light fixtures that Tel Aviv-based Studio Mesila (mesila being the Hebrew word for “track”) makes, the lamp was created out of wood veneer remnants from a carpentry shop in Kibbutz Beit Alfa. Studio Mesila – a […]
Tel Aviv based designer, Limor Matityahoo, has been involved with crafts for as long as she can remember. Among her many skills, Limor is a textile designer, a makeup artist, a cake decorator, and an interactive product manager. Most recently her curiosity, playfulness and skill have brought her to upcycled and recycled crafts made from […]
So far on Green Prophet we’ve seen aluminum soda cans transformed into flowers and window store displays. But we’ve never seen them transformed into furniture. Amir Zinaburg’s designs show us what the can can do. A graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (together with other Israeli eco-designers Erez Mulai, Zohar Yarom and […]
Green Prophet's Karin Kloosterman finds a seat in Jaffa with her baby
Here on Green Prophet we love to hear about green design. In the world of green furniture design we’ve already covered Green Lullaby, which makes cribs, doll houses and doll cradles for kids out of recycled cardboard paper. But now there’s a new recycled cardboard furniture design company in town and they’re making furniture for […]
Inbal Limor, an Israeli artist whose artistic plastic bag creations and puppets we’ve already covered on Green Prophet, is devoted to using her art to promote environmental awareness. And this time she’s going bigger, joining forces with other artists who have a similar mission. Together with Amanda Mehl and Shameless, Inbal has initiated and curated […]
Sustainable design is popping up all over Israel, and we’ve tried to cover as many of these designers as possible. Our survey of ten sustainable Israeli designers who reduce, reuse, and recycle covers tons of green, innovative, and aesthetic projects ranging from rubber tire handbags (that are surprisingly chic) to old suitcases-turned-shelving units. So we […]