Lilja and Nordberg have have created lamps out of what would otherwise be considered waste material. At the 2009 DMY Design Festival in Berlin, designers Petra Lilja and Jenny Nordberg of the Malmö, Sweden based design studio APOCALYPSE, exhibited their Blob lamps.

Billboards get all sorts of (justified) flak for polluting our mind-scapes. They are everywhere, flaunting famous people — in expensive clothes, drinking sexy beer, promising us recession-busting discounts. Unfortunately, billboards are also responsible for a more tangible type of pollution. At the end of an advertising campaign, billboard workers roll up the heavy-grade vinyl and [...]