Issues

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I checked out the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) recently. I went specifically to check out an exhibitor that makes furniture out of all sorts of found objects. Beautiful stuff, but Hipcycle is not going to be in the $2000 chair business (find out why here), so I [...]

As part of Hipcycle’s continuing efforts to provide quality information about upcycling, I present to you our (hopefully annual) list of 5 top people in the upcycling industry. Note I did not write “top 5” people, as I am not implying that this is a ranking and that one person is more important than another [...]

I went to the International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Jacob Javits Convention Center back in May. As a person new to the industry, I thought it would be a good way to get a sense of what was going on. I found it to be fascinating. I’ve been to a bajillion trade shows in [...]

I subscribe to the Economist, and it’s a great read, but really dense. A couple of years ago, a special report on global waste came out, and as usual, it was excellent, and densely voluminous in content. I clipped it and saved it into my file of cool stuff (you have one of those too [...]

If you are part of the upcycled industry (yes! it is an industry…small but growing), you know that it has its own vernacular, like any other industry. The vernacular is not overly complex, but it’s potentially confusing nonetheless. A lot of it is marketing: people in the biz are simply looking for effective ways to [...]