Rubbish Jewellery by Hollie Paxton

Rubbish + precious materials (gold, silver etc) = jewellery + art + comment on throwaway culture

Tea Calendars

"Designed by Kelle Rebbe for German tea manufacture Hälssen & Lyon, "The Tea Calendar" features 365 days of wafer-thin pages made from pressed tea leaves. Simply tear off one of the square pages and let it brew directly in a cup with hot water."

Tea leaves + Calendar = An instant cup of tea everyday + calendar + save on wastage of rubbish (no teabags) + year-long supply of tea





- See more at: http://www.junk-culture.com/2013/05/a-ready-to-brew-calendar-made-from.html#more

Mind-mapping and the Brain

Mind maps are such an effective tool for processing information because it is both a creative and a logical way of brainstorming. Research has shown that mind-mapping manages to use the full range of our brain's cortical skills, as well as both the left and right brain. You can consider the Mind Map the ultimate thinking tool that incorporates all the significant and potent ways of thinking into its own structure. Also, the way we think is similar to the way we start from a central idea for the mind map, then branch out into different categories, distilling these ideas further or making more connections and associations along the way. Another reason for the success of mind maps is that it is basically an image. Images are much easier to remember than merely words because they make use of a wider range of cortical skills, especially imagination, which is essential to creative thinking. But I think that my favourite reason for the effectiveness of the mind map is that it has the exact same structure as a brain cell. It is literally a map of the mind.

(image source:http://www.zmescience.com/research/studies/the-adult-brain-cells-keep-growing-myth/)

Dante Horoiwa

Image source: http://hifructose.com/2013/08/12/dante-horoiwas-paintings-dabble-in-ritual/