Rodrigo Alonso, Chilean Designer, Transforms E-Waste Into 'N+ew' Furnishings (PHOTOS)

Got an extra computer or broken speaker lying around? Why not hand it over to designer Rodrigo Alonso?

The Chilean artist transforms a range of e-waste into brightly colored stool sculpture installations, which are carefully encapsulated in epoxy resin and mounted on melted aluminum bases.

Dubbed N+ew, Alonso's unusual handmade designs are crafted with raw materials from a local recycling company, Recycla, which donates the e-waste free of charge.

"The idea behind N+ew isn’t the creation of a recyclable object," Alonso said in an email to the Huffington Post. "Instead, the aim is to immortalize the waste and to give a last use, especially since its only destination is contamination."

Alonso isn't the first artist to extend the life of used technology. Artist Yuri Zupancic transforms microchips into beautiful, tiny pieces of artwork, while Sarah Frost glues smashed up computer keyboards to walls.

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Comments

[RGKahn]

03:53 PM on 02/18/2012

Those are soooo cool. The cubes made of recycled "Estuff" is sooo very cool. I want to be able to see that in real life. It has to be seen and touched it has driven my mind crazier than usual. Love them both for different reasons and for the same reasons.

[arthur-in-miami]

12:01 AM on 02/17/2012

with all the potential for the waste that will wash up along the pacfic coast of the western US there seems to be a lot of opportunities for artists to "comb" the beaches for pieces to inspire all sorts of things from furniture to wall art and sculture to - well anywhere the mind can take the artist

[Houstondiago]

05:56 PM on 02/15/2012

Cool, I would buy that.