Inventive pop-ups come to life

These great pop-ups are experimental designs by Portland-based designer and art director Mengyu Chen who is currently working on a new comic book. She mocked these up to see how they would work.

Very inventive - can't wait to see the book.

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Gumdrop Bin wins Homes and Gardens Award

The Gumdrop Bin is the brainchild of Anna Bullus who noticed that not only was chewing gum a material that was being wasted but it was also polluting our environment.  

She set about solving the problem by creating a bin using recycled chewing gum and called it Gumdrop. It's manufactured from a new plastic polymer using chewing gum and then moulded into shape.  

Anna has just won The Homes & Gardens Eco Design Award 2012 so well done for this fantastic idea. Give gum a second life!  

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