That abstract visage staring back at you (above) was created from recycled paper. Artist Nick Georgiou transforms recycled print materials into transfixing art pieces and sculptures. He tries to keep it local – garnering discarded newspapers, magazines and books from his immediate surroundings, which, for the past two years has been Tuscon, AZ.

The computer has eaten the typewriter’s lunch. Typewriters are now collectors’ items…or worse, useless artifacts of a time gone by, relegated to the slag heap, the junk pile, or some dusty attic. But one artist has the made the creative decision to give an assortment of old typewriters a new life. (above) Artist Jeremy Mayer is obsessed – obsessed with disassembling typewriters and then reassembling them into full-scale, anatomically correct human figures, body parts and other creatures.

Tsunami Glassworks makes these art glass wall panels – they call them green wall panels – from reclaimed window glass, recycled glass shards and recycled wine bottles. Quite spectacular. These decorative panels can be arranged in variety of different configurations.

The Watchman (above), a salvage art assemblage consisting of an eclectic mix of repurposed clock parts, upcycled watches and an assortment of found items and reclaimed hardware. The piece is the first of four pieces in bearpawrustics’ Workman line.

Art or artifice? Designer Nolan Herbut’s Wolfgang Keyboard Bench is quite a concept.

The undulating bench, above, consists of a Baltic Birch frame covered with 2,000 computer keyboard keys. The keys actually click when pressed, presumably by one’s derriere.