Japanese Art Student Creates Wearable Clothes Exclusively Out of Rubber Bands
Looking at the stylish garments made by graduating art student Rie Sakamoto, you’d be tempted to think they are made of brown yarn, but in fact, every piece in her collection is made of knitted rubber bands. Rie Sakamoto is graduating from Tama Art University, in Tokyo this year and for her thesis she decided […]
This Is What a 250-Pound Rubber Band Ball Created over 32 Years Looks Like
35-year-old Zack Hample has devoted 32 years of his life to creating a giant ball made of elastic rubber bands. Which means he started making the ball when he was just three or four years old. There’s something odd about a three-year-old trying to make a rubber band ball, at an age when most kids […]
World’s Bounciest Chair Is Made from 65,000 Rubber Bands
It might look like just a colorful art piece, but Justin Moeller’s rubber band chair is functional piece of furniture able to sustain a grown man’s weight. The young industrial designer created the unique in 2011, by hand, from over 65,000 rubber bands. Justin Moeller was in his final year at the Appalachian State University, in […]
Designer Creates Fashionable Dresses Out of Thousands of Colorful Rubber Bands
Bulgarian-born designer Margarita Mileva spends around 90 hours painstakingly knotting rubber bands together to create wearable dresses. Her latest creation numbers 18,500 rubber bands. The first time we featured Margarita Mileva on OC was back in 2011, when she created a stunning pastel dress out of 14,235 pieces of rubbery office supplies. She beat that record […]