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FREITAG’s circularity goals: From truck tarps to trending
September 1st, 2024
Brothers Daniel (left) and Markus Freitag, the founders of FREITAG, standing in a flax field in Normandy, France. Image: FREITAG/Lukas Wassmann FREITAG, a Zurich, Switzerland-based apparel and bag company, aims to create a closed-loop system of fashion manufacturing using biodegradable and compostable materials to make products that can return to the field after use. Flax […]
Movie screens upcycled into lamps, furniture
May 1st, 2024
Designer Haneul Kim created lighting and furniture from a movie screen that was being discarded. The small table lamp has a circumference of 14 centimeters (5.5 inches) and is 21 centimeters (8.3 inches) high. He also created a lamp style (below) in homage to Mario Botta’s Shogun Tavolo lamp. Images: Haneul Kim/Donghyi Kim If you build […]