Useless Junk turned into Creative DIY Products

Yesterday I was browsing around when I bumped into this very nice article announcing the 2010 Inhabitat Spring Greening Contest Winners and decided to show you further details about it. The Spring Greening Design Competition challenged designers, artists and crafters to transform useless junk into beautiful DIY products, and the result is a list of very interesting and creative pieces. We will show here a list with some of the finalists and the winners of the competition. We really recommend you to visit the website to read more about each piece and its author (just click at the images and you will be redirected).

I really like contests like this one... not only contests, but I really dig the idea of pushing people to use their talent and creativity to design creative things using old stuff and several other useless junk that we can easily find around us, in our house, our neighborhood, etc. This is not only a way of developing nice recycled products but is also a way to reinforce that 'yes we can' have nice stuff made of 'forgotten useless things'. So check out this list and start thinking about what you could do with some regular things that are seating around your place and go for it... use your creativity and Do It Yourself! ;)

The Finalists

POP Pendant Light Made From Recycled Aluminum Pulltabs

Iluminata: Lamp Made Out of Yogurt Bottles

Chop-Flops Made From Recycled Chopsticks

LOTO Recycled Plastic Bottle Chandeliers

US Map Art Made From Cereal Boxes

La Lata Bowl Made From Recycled Soda Can Tabs

Gorgeous Garments Upcycled from Magnetic Video Tape

National Geographic Magazine Shelf

Potus Pot Made From a Recycled Lightbulb

Film Roll Lamp

Cute Stool Made Out of Paper Rolls

Dazzling Lamps Made Out of Soda Bottles

Plastic Lamps made from Recycled Six-Pack Rings

Stunning Chandelier Made Out of Hangers

Cone Light Recycled from Used Traffic Cones

ELASTICSHELF: A Shelving System Made Out of Used Bike Tires

Snack-Serving Robot Made from Vintage Objects

Spice Rack, Vase and Salt and Pepper Shakers Made Out of Light Bulbs!

Paper Tube Light

LAPICERO: Toilet Paper Roll Pencil Holder

The Winners

Soda Bottle Lamp by Sarah Turner

Elasticshelf by SystemDesignStudio

Film Roll Lamp by Nidhi Gupta

Light Bulb Spice Rack by Annisa Fardan Nabila and Aulia Amanda Santoso

Chop Flops by Joseph Palmer

Pop Pendant Light by Mauricio Affonso

Don't forget to visit Inhabitat's website for further details about each piece and its author.