Call us Artist or call us Engineers, there seems to be many of us, like myself, that can direct our creativeness in a positive way. I see them more and more at craft shows and on the web. People are taking used and discarded items and giving them a new life, a new purpose. Upcycling provides uniqueness in a progressive way and can be more resourceful than recycling .

My mission with A Creative Shade of Green is to impose the idea that you really can create quality from something old or discarded by promoting those who have dedicated themselves to inventively reusing what they find or have.

I would like to present my ideas as well as others like myself that share a similar mission. Hence…

A Creative Shade of Green

Monday, October 3, 2011

Comfortable With The Idea Of Reusing Disposable Chopsticks

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China consumes 25 million trees in the manufaturing of disposible chopsticks every year. So when Jason Dembski and Ryan Horsman were confronted with the challange of (re)using everyday Chinese items in new ways, they developed this very intriguing stool.

Jason Dembski
Tackling such an extremely overwhelmingly wasted product requires extreme measures. Literally thousands of disposable chopsticks, in addition to bamboo steamers, and simple cushioning material is used to create a completely functional and contemporary piece. Jason illustrates the stool's simple composition on his website. I love this stool's natural monotone character although if you were a color nut I suppose you could have some real fun with this project.


Jason received his BS.Arch from the Ohio State University in 2004 and M.Arch from the University of Michigan in 2009. He is currently working for Davidclovers in Hong Kong.

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