greg lynn: recycled toy furniture.

While trolling the blogs today I found these re-used toy tables on Dezeen. Designed by California-based architect Greg Lynn, his series of recycled toy furniture won Golden Lion for the Best Installation Project in the International Exhibition at the Vienna Architecture Biennale.

While it’s pretty clear these aren’t recycled toys, I still think this works beautifully as a piece, almost more as an installation. And the idea is still true – you could use recycled toys in this fashion. I guess the line is a little grey, but I don’t care. They look hot. They’re big and shiny and plastic and colourful and have been melted together in a little toy-pyre and made into table. I likes.

nike trash talk.

Promoted as the brainchild of Nike star endorser and big time environmentalist Steve Nash, last month Nike released the Trash Talk – the first high-end running shoe made not just out of environmentally friendly first-run materials, but literally out of scraps that would otherwise have been tossed.

Check out the details on exactly what Nike is (and isn’t) doing to walk their trash talk, as well as read the various soap-boxing of environmentalists claiming to see right through this, at the must-read Treehugger.