Win The Book "Designing For Re-use", Post Your Reused Items
We at instructables are hosting a mini-contest where you can win a new book!
Post your own reuse project and win a brand new copy of the book "Designing For Re-use: The Life Of Consumer Packaging" by Tom Fisher and Janet Shipton. The book features Instructables.com extensively and we wanted to pass on a copy to our community! We have one copy available and the winner will be chosen at random.
How to Enter:
Post a comment to this forum with a picture with a description, link to your blog, or instructable where you took something people normally throw away and came up with a unique way to reuse it.
This contest will run till June 6th. We hope to see your cool reuse items!
To purchase a copy of the book click here: Amazon.com
UPDATE
The Winner Is: ChrysN for posting all of their wonderful projects! Thanks to everyone for submitting!
Post your own reuse project and win a brand new copy of the book "Designing For Re-use: The Life Of Consumer Packaging" by Tom Fisher and Janet Shipton. The book features Instructables.com extensively and we wanted to pass on a copy to our community! We have one copy available and the winner will be chosen at random.
How to Enter:
Post a comment to this forum with a picture with a description, link to your blog, or instructable where you took something people normally throw away and came up with a unique way to reuse it.
This contest will run till June 6th. We hope to see your cool reuse items!
To purchase a copy of the book click here: Amazon.com
UPDATE
The Winner Is: ChrysN for posting all of their wonderful projects! Thanks to everyone for submitting!
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I'm from New York City, trust no one. Any other stealth interns we need to be acquainted with?
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Here is my entry
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Would that suffice as an entry? There are pictures on every one, of course...
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