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Luxury sculpture isn’t Studio Swine’s first foray into upcycling unwanted materials. The creative firm has created furniture out of sea plastic, turned bottles into a lamp, and even braided human hair into eyeglasses....

Studio Swine recently went on a 1,000-nautical-mile adventure called Gyrecraft, described as an “exploration into maritime crafts” that harvests sea plastic extracted from the North Atlantic Gyre...

While most have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, few know about the smaller, but equally problematic North Atlantic Gyre. To help raise awareness about the issue and remove plastic from our shores and oceans, Studio...

http://vimeo.com/58461689 Studio Swine's brilliant Sea Chair is made of plastic waste collected from the world's oceans - and RSA Films director Juriaan Booij recently made a beautiful film that documents the process behind...

Design collaborative Studio Swine has created Can City - an amazing collection of furniture made almost entirely from aluminum cans salvaged on the streets of São Paulo...

Design collaborative Studio Swine has created Can City - an amazing collection of furniture made almost entirely from aluminum cans salvaged on the streets of São Paulo...

The Standing Light, from the São Paulo Collection by Studio Swine, is a luxury design series created with waste materials collected from the city streets of São Paulo, Brazil...

Our oceans are filled with plastic waste that will never fully decompose – the pieces just get smaller and smaller, and therefore more difficult to collect...

Eyewear comes in many shapes and sizes, but few are made with sustainable materials. But here’s a collection from two Royal College of Art graduates that turns human hair into stylish sunnies and vision sharpening specs....