upcycle

Have a bunch of film canisters lying around and not sure what to do with them? You could use them to geekify your Christmas lights by punching a hole in the caps and sticking the lights in.

Ties are meant to be soft and comfortable around the neck, so they’re a perfect fit for a do-it-yourself …

If you ever find yourself with some unwanted negatives on your hands, you can upcycle them into creative film …

Photographer Dana Neibert made this unique iPad case using an old 8×10 film …

Flickr user Betty Ann recycled a photography book by transforming pages into these …

If you have an old or broken flatbed scanner lying around and gathering dust, a neat thing you can …

The MoMA Store used to sell these nifty salt and pepper shakers made …

Claire Chauvin over at Poopscape has a …

Chicago-based designer Dan Riordan woke up one morning, saw his Polaroid Land Camera 95A, and thought to himself, “I …

Tiffany Threadgould of RePlayGround had the awesome idea of building a room divider using old 35mm film canisters. She spent three months befriending film processing shops in New York and collecting the 1,000+ canisters needed for the project.

Erik Pettersson was looking for a nice digital frame, but found that all the commercially available ones were too …

Have a busted lens that isn’t worth repairing? Instead of throwing it away, you can turn it into a …

A few years ago New Zealand-based Flickr photog fettucininz was looking for an …

As online stock photography services and libraries have expanded in recent years, stock photography books have become more and more obsolete.

Advertising and communications corp JWT recently came up with an idea to breath new life into these dying books by transforming them into tools to help teach disadvantaged children to read.

At the beginning of the month we featured a creative lamp …

If you have slides you’re planning on throwing away, why not upcycle them …