Cover of Re-Creative: 50 Projects for Turning Found Items Into Contemporary Design

Re-Creative: 50 Projects for Turning Found Items Into Contemporary Design

Previously Announced. Recycle. Restore. Repurpose. This unique book inspires art, creation, and environmentalism with 50 projects that transform yesterday's trash into today's stylish and useful objects. Using found, discarded, and cast-off items as a foundation-from old computer cases, soda cans, and record album covers to foam packing-readers can fashion stylish clocks, end tables, frames, and much more.

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