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VOTE NOW In the Spring Green Design Competition!

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After a week of spring crafting and much anticipation, we’re thrilled to reveal the top entries in our Spring Greening DIY Design Contest! We received over 100 inspired entries, and we were super impressed with all of your clever, skillfully executed examples of recycled and reclaimed design. It was a true challenge to narrow all the entrants down to 15 finalists, so now we’re turning to you, dear readers, to help us choose which designer will receive a grand prize gift certificate of $200 to the Inhabitat Shop and which three runner-ups that will receive an eggling of their choice! You can vote as many times as you want (limited to once a day) and of course we encourage you to tell all of your friends and get them to vote for you! So read on for the top 15 designs, and cast your vote today!

CONTEST ENDS TUESDAY, APRIL 14th at MIDNIGHT

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE SPRING GREEN DESIGN!

837 Votes Phone Book Coffee Table by Rodrigo Jaroseski
686 Votes Recycled Plastic Jewelry by Kumvana gomani
643 Votes Book Book Shelf by Richard Jennions
557 Votes Egg-crate Lamp by Federico Otero
210 Votes Soda Can Brooch by Kumvana Gomani
204 Votes Tupperware Lights by Frank Criscione
200 Votes Umbrella Dog Raincoats by Taryn Zychal
175 Votes Egg Crate Vase by Fanny Chen
174 Votes Drops Chair by Camilla
136 Votes Laptop Packaging Briefcase by Alison Cromie
136 Votes Green Dish Rack by Green Dish Rack by Nibha Jain and Srikanth Jalasutram
131 Votes Blender Lamp by Melinda Marinsky
125 Votes Light Bulb Pendant Light by James Sampayan
110 Votes Refurbished Found Table & Dresser by Christine Chitnis
100 Votes Vacuum lamp by Ben Light
83 Votes Toilet Plunger Lamp by Michael Andrulewich

Total Voters: 3,628

36 Responses to “VOTE NOW In the Spring Green Design Competition!”

andrulewich Says:

April 6th, 2009 at 2:56 pm

Great work on the plunger lamp!!

abhsqueen Says:

April 6th, 2009 at 3:53 pm

Love the originality and out of the box thinking. Loved the toilet plunger lamp. It has a retro 50/60’s look.

Marietta Andrulewich Says:

April 6th, 2009 at 4:34 pm

Plunger lamp quite clever and unique.

LadyRowe Says:

April 6th, 2009 at 5:09 pm

Love the jewerlly Very pretty “Bling”. Sure to jazz up any outfit.

Paulione Says:

April 6th, 2009 at 5:46 pm

the books bookshelf is fabulous – I want one!

C Bajek Says:

April 6th, 2009 at 7:30 pm

Great Idea on the lamp

vthomson Says:

April 6th, 2009 at 8:02 pm

inventive

micka Says:

April 6th, 2009 at 8:24 pm

Great Work!

Len Says:

April 6th, 2009 at 10:55 pm

Love the Plunger Lamps

metaflusso Says:

April 7th, 2009 at 12:35 am

I particulary appreciate Egg-crate Lamp by Federico Otero. Its a clear demonstration that using recycled material doesn\’t have to look crappy but can be elegant, subtle an timeless. I could see that lamp in my house… Dozens of them ;)

Congratulation

stuf64 Says:

April 7th, 2009 at 9:19 am

I did a blender lamp a while ago… http://www.instructables.com/id/Blender-Lamp/

SixtiesSandy Says:

April 7th, 2009 at 9:27 am

Great job by all. I especially like the furniture redo by Christine Chitnis. Proves one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

dcvelez Says:

April 7th, 2009 at 11:24 am

I am having a lot of trouble voting. I am trying to vote for the first time but the page does not let me. there is no place to mark next to a name to select them.

dpryga65 Says:

April 7th, 2009 at 11:41 am

Alot of creative designs but I like the plunger lamp!!

Merboyle Says:

April 7th, 2009 at 2:19 pm

Hey, great stuff!! WHere can I buy one of those plunger lamps????

molly boyle Says:

April 7th, 2009 at 2:29 pm

I am inspired by all the creativity going on here! Great ideas!

Marynes Says:

April 7th, 2009 at 5:42 pm

He tenido problemas para dar mi voto por estas lamparas y la pagina no tiene lugar para marcar como favorita.
MI VOTO ES POR LAS LAMPARAS DE HUEVO POR FEDERICO OTERO.

Marynes Says:

April 7th, 2009 at 5:46 pm

Tengo problemas por adicionar mi voto porque no hay una casilla que pueda marcar

Mi lampara preferida son las de huevo por FEDERICO OTERO.

MARYNES

kelly andrulewich Says:

April 7th, 2009 at 8:05 pm

The Plunger Lamp is hot! I love orange!

fernadoc_p Says:

April 7th, 2009 at 10:13 pm

i would like to have some news to my mail from these contests… i’m a designer from PERU

gabriela O. Says:

April 8th, 2009 at 1:10 am

Me encanta la lámpara de caja de huevos de Federuci (digo Federico) Otero
la idea de reciclar cosas me encanta
Yo creo que sí he podido marcar bien (eso espero) y espero que muchos voten por esa lámpara

You are always very creative!!

obmet Says:

April 8th, 2009 at 4:37 am

Lover the soda can brooch i want one.

Davidson massea Says:

April 8th, 2009 at 11:49 am

plastic Jewelary has given a new image to plastic

172649 Says:

April 8th, 2009 at 11:50 am

very interesting funiture and great jewellery designs.

blqessence Says:

April 8th, 2009 at 11:28 pm

The Plastic Jewlery can be used for casual and dressy, nice one!

jaime Says:

April 8th, 2009 at 11:44 pm

De verdad que la que más me llamó la atención no sólo por bonita y práctica sino por su creatividad novedosa decorativa, es la Lamapra de Cascaras de Huevo, que también es una forma de cuidar el Medio Ambiente, ya que utliza algo natural (reciclaje). Felicitaciones Federico Otero
Un admirador y amigo
Jaime \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”El Biónico\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\” Giraldo

scotto Says:

April 9th, 2009 at 4:22 pm

Wow! Someone should set up a lamp factory next to the landfill. It seems almost any piece of garbage can be turned into a lamp. But please use CFLs. I might like the plunger light better if it had some paper bits and brown stains so we could believe it was actually “saved” from a landfill.

splenner Says:

April 10th, 2009 at 11:58 am

Phone book table-best use of an obsolete object.
Bookshelf-clever idea, excellent execution.

lilypoopug Says:

April 10th, 2009 at 10:24 pm

I absolutely LOVE the doggie raincoats! now THIS is creative reuse of something that would definitely end up in a landfill….. now, what to do with the metal framework??? maybe a wacky mobile of some sort??!!!

Eugenio Menjivar Says:

April 11th, 2009 at 11:59 am

Egg crate lamps produced in 2007 and presented at ICFF, New York 2008
Check them out at http://www.eugeniomenjivar.com

cristina Says:

April 12th, 2009 at 5:45 pm

The egg crate lamp by Federico Otero was created in the beginning of 2007 for a Muji Competition and presented in a design fair in May in Bogota, Colombia , and was published in 2007 in Proyecto Design in Colombia. There has press for the lamp on various television programs throughout Latin America and Colombia, and was published in Proyecto Diseno, Red Latino Americano de Diseno, among others and has been presented in design shows throughout Peru. If you would like to see details about the press with dates please contact me at info@otero-d.com.

carolina168181 Says:

April 13th, 2009 at 8:01 am

all the designs are creative and useful in everyday life.

trendoffice7 Says:

April 14th, 2009 at 6:02 am

Which one is the most useful, durable, easy to clean and beautiful product? There is one answer for me – Table & Dresser by Christine Chitnis. They are not strange, unusual or unexpected – they are just exactly what our everyday objects need to be if we want to use them for long time and with pleasure and not throw them away when dirty, because it will not be possible to clean them as is the case with some of the projects with most votes.