Monthly Archives: February 2012

(This blog post is fourth in a new series we will be writing here at Hipcycle on the materials that go into our products. Previous posts were on glass, metal and paper)
Tires that need a new home.
I’ll bet you don’t think about your tires very often. Those rubbery, grippy, dirty things that manage to get [...]

(Andrew recently shot a segment of the TV show “Deals,” which airs on the Live Well Network. In addition to showing off about a dozen cool Hipcycle products, he also demonstrated a few do-it-yourself upcycling projects. This blog post shows how to make one of those projects.)
Making keyboard picture frames is a lot of fun [...]

Here at Hipcycle, we like to try new technology to spread the word about upcycling. We've done hangouts on Google+, and you've seen our Pinterest boards, right?

Now, we're proud to say that we are innovators in Dreadlocks e-mail. Here's a demo from our beta testing:

Today's post is courtesy of Megan Shonka, who responded to our open call for guest bloggers. Her passion: plastic bags!
Since their rise to widespread usage in the 1970s, plastic bags have been creating a pollution problem for our beloved earth. Most of the bags in circulation today are used only once (which, unfortunately, was their [...]

Literally. From Hipcycle HQ, one pounds relentlessly a few miles to the east, and the other stinks it up a few miles to the west.

 
Greetings from the MCRC
I see inspiration every day in the work that Hipcycle does. Our planet is fragile, and we need to do our part to help. I’m a “beach person,” [...]

The notion of collections of things being “curated” seems to be really trendy these days. Beyond the traditional notion of a curated collection at a museum, bands are “curating” music festivals by deciding what other musicians get added to the bill, and collections of products to purchase are now being described as “curated” too. I [...]

(This blog post is third in a new series we will be writing here at Hipcycle on the materials that go into our products. Previous posts were on glass and metal.)
When I was a little girl, I was obsessed with paper. My best friend and I would play “office” for hours. We would shuffle paper [...]