Norm's 1L11 trainer produces 80 per cent less carbon than typical shoes
Recycled plastic and rubber make up this unisex trainer by Belgian brand Norm, which has set out to change the "nonsense" manufacturing process of a standard pair of shoes. More
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NABA students create furniture with graphic rubber flooring
NABA is exhibiting a student furniture collection called Dots as part of the VDF collaboration with Ventura Projects. More
Studio Edwards designs minimal house on wheels Base Cabin
Studio Edwards has turned the simple A-frame cabin into a mobile home with a sleek rubber skin. More
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Rie Sakamoto knits rubber bands together like yarn for elastic garments
Japanese designer Rie Sakamoto replaced yarn with rubber bands for her knitted fashion collection, which aims to showcase this stationary item's overlooked qualities. More
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CSM graduate Fredrik Tjærandsen envelops models in rubber balloons
Central Saint Martins fashion student Fredrik Tjærandsen has presented giant balloons that deflate to form dresses on the catwalk. More
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Molly Younger's washable luggage is made from latex
Australian fashion designer Molly Younger has created a range of flesh-like rubber bags and wallets cast from natural latex. More
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Rolf Sachs covers Leica camera in ping-pong rubber
Artist Rolf Sachs has collaborated with Leica to cover the camera brand's M-System model in the same material used on ping-pong bats. More
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Studio Swine designs furniture for Henry Ford's failed Amazon city
Studio Swine used very hard rubber to craft this black furniture collection, designed for American industrialist Henry Ford's failed utopian city. More
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Tsibi Geva hides Israel's Venice biennale pavilion behind a wall of used tyres
Israeli artist Tsibi Geva has wrapped his country's Venice pavilion in old car tyres and filled it with a mixture of found architectural and household objects to explore ideas about the home (+ slideshow). More
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Belly of the Beast is a hillside folly with a scruffy coat made from old tyres
Scraps of rubber tyres create a shaggy coat around this narrow tower created by architecture students Matt Ritani and Declan Burn on a countryside sculpture trail in New Zealand. More
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Rubber lamp by Thomas Schnur
Cologne designer Thomas Schnur has created squishy lamps made out of rubber. More
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Chair for Dali by Kei Harada
Japanese designer Kei Harada has created two chairs made completely out of rubber. More
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Black Ruby by Studio Debbie Wijskamp
Rubber pellets made from recycled car tyres form the knobbly surfaces of these bowls and pots by Dutch designer Debbie Wijskamp. More
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Amhurst Road by Edgley Design
Hoxton architects Edgley Design have tucked a rubber-clad residence and aluminium artist's studio behind a row of semi-detached houses in Hackney. More
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Rubberhouse by Cityförster
Architecture collective Cityförster have completed a wooden house in the Netherlands with a black rubber skin. More
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Just K by Architekten Martenson und Nagel Theissen
The roof and upper walls of a house in Tübingen, Germany, are covered in rubber, like a fisherman's hat pulled low over his eyes. More
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Rubber Table by Thomas Schnur
Cologne 2011: German designer Thomas Schnur presented this table with suction cups on the legs as part of [D3] Design Talents at imm cologne last week. More
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Rubber Stool by h220430
Japanese studio h220430 have designed this stool made of recycled rubber. More
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Rubber House by Zeinstra van Gelderen architecten
Dutch architects Zeinstra van Gelderen architecten have designed this one-man pavilion made entirely of rubber. More
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Handlebar Candlesticks by Yen-Wen Tseng
Taiwanese designer Yen-Wen Tseng, a student at Konstfack University College of Arts, Craft and Design in Stockholm, has created a set of rubber candlesticks designed to feel like bicycle handlebars. More
