Check out this strange and interesting furniture by Fabien Cappello (via). It's made out of timber harvested from Christmas trees discarded on the streets of London. He even used the needles to make a compressed board material.

The New York based furniture concern creates furniture from recycled cardboard. Their campaign, The Cardboard Speaks, serves both an advertising and an advocacy function.

These little signs are cost-effective and attention-getting way to promote awareness of their laudable (although a little expensive) products. They also serve the purpose of slapping a scarlet letter on non-recycling businesses in the boroughs. Nice!

Finally, not to get too meta, but I can't help wondering if the ads themselves are eventually turned into bookshelves and playhouses.

For those who can't make out the French, they're advertising their paint recycling policy.

RONA capitalizes on a design trope in a billboard for the iPod nano.

I'm not sure this is intentional, but this ad can also serve the purpose as a funny and subtle jab at Apple's well-known less-than-green design practices.