Thursday, October 22, 2009

FREE eco-ornament with your puchase


We encourage everyone to shop green this holiday season. And here's our eco gift to you!

Holiday Offer: Free Eco Ornament with any order placed before December 15th. Mention offer Eco09 when ordering online. Email us directly if you have any questions about any of our products.

info@180-design.com

Ornaments are hand crafted from miscellaneous materials - steel toe boot cutoffs, slugs and punchouts, found nuts and bolts, and wire, and odds and ends rescued from dumpsters.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Twig Bowl


Something new -a cool twig bowl...created from steel recovered from a road demolition.

Friday, October 16, 2009

The Mother Lode!!




Christmas has come early for One Eighty Design, thanks to Mark at Yaeger's Salvage Yard! I scored 4ooo pounds of washers today and a huge heap of twisted - twig like steel. Oddly, my kids were not as excited as I was. Thanks mom and dad for helping me, once again you're the best!




Thursday, October 15, 2009

New Basket & Chain Bowl


The basket: cool shaped cutouts - sort of creates a basket weave effect when welded together. I love it paired with the twig/root style handle created from reclaimed steel.

The chain bowl: motorcycle chain and reclaimed steel "sticks". Anchored with a thick circle base. Please email me personally if you're interested in these or any other one-of-a-kind creations.

tammy@180-design.com

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

New Bowl


Something new, hot out of the shop! Heavy duty chain/links - possibly my new favorite. I created this on a large form - size is about 16" across and 6" tall. Limited quantities though - due to materials supply.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Custom stands for a wedding/event



Recently I collaborated on a project with my uber-creative uncle who is an event planner-florist-extraordinaire. I can't say enough about David - he's amazing. (richfieldflowers.com) and just all around nice guy. He needed some eco-stands for upcoming events and we came up with some great twig/branch stands - they turned out great and I'm sure they will get much use. Materials used: cool braided/cable (there are spools of it in the shop), damaged/salvaged rebar and miscellaneous wire.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

New treasures from the dump!

I love to dumpster dive - there I said it. My mom and I spent the day on Friday running from dumpster to dumpster, and scrapyard to scrapyard - does anybody else spend a mother/daughter day like this? Anyway, treasures galore - we picked up slugs, some cool chain link thingys, oh, and I stumbled across 4000 pounds of washers - yes, you read that right! Look for cool new things to be coming out of the shop!

Do good. Live green.