These pins are a fantastic visual reminder of your own consumption – making statements out of your daily detritus. And they look pretty good too. From Designboom:
The ‘garbage pin’ by portuguese designer ana cardim turns your daily bits of trash into jewelry.
‘a metallic silver structure that holds a tiny, transparent plastic bag (the garbage bag). this bag, once full, can be removed, closed with a wire and kept as a outcome of the experience. the piece is sold as a kit that includes spare plastic bags and wires.’
more over at Ana Cardim‘s website:
Garbage Pin is born of a definitely urban concept, the appropriation and reinterpretation of a daily use object: the garbage bin.
Being one of the most common typologies of urban equipment in the cosmopolitan network, the garbage bag belongs without any doubt to the collective imagery, present in every urbanite life’s day as a reflection of a culture involved with the accelerated and growing consumism, as is ours.
It is a call to reflect on the current social paradigm that confronts notions such as “waste” and “valuable”, both relative and subjective concepts. It is a call as well for the innumerable problems that derive from a society of consumers; those of environmental and ecologic sort that lead us today to a future break with the current ecosystem.
Filed under: creative ideas, products with a purpose, designers, jewellery
