Dutch designer Mieke Meijer compresses and bon...  ...ulting product has the grain and feel of original wood : Every day, piles of newspapers are discarded...  ...s cut, the layers of paper appear like lines of a wood grain or the rings of a tree and therefore resemb...  ...ree and therefore resembles the ase...

John Jacobsmeyer has been one of those artists...  ...ks (if I may use a mixed metaphor) and his recent wood -themed series is worth a look for its brilliant t...  ...a look for its brilliant treatment of industrial wood . Notice how JJ puts this timber into different ro...  ...s his previous best, IMHO. And sti...

Artist Elisa Strozyk took discarded wood veneer, sliced it into tiny triangles, and repurp...

Dutch artist and inventor Joost Conijn refitte...  ...inventor Joost Conijn refitted his Citroën with wooden panels and installed a wood -burning boiler for propulsion. He then traveled...  ...rld War II, some cars in Sweden were converted to wood -burning engines due to a sc...

The Japanese woodworking firm Sada-Kenbi has built a wooden , functional, street-legal sports car. It can rea...  ...http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/23/view/8388/ wooden

Although this wood sculpture looks basic enough, it's actually quite...  ...van der Ende creates works like this out of found wood - and makes bas relief sculptures.  So while you...  ...ntimeters. Inspired by working in his father's woodshop as a young man, Ron went to...

Photo: Kibardin Design Prague-based Russian des...  ...n created the Deep Forest Lounge Chair out of 374 wooden dowels, carefully molded to seat a person comfort...

In the late 18th century, Carl Schildbach was mana...  ...¦ For the left side of the ‘volume’ mature wood was selected and for the right side sapwood, whil...  ...ay be seen here and here.  The creation of such " wooden books" seems to have been primarily a European en...  ...ject by Romeyn B. Hough coll...

Branch Bangle by Anthony Roussel, Photo: Rob Poppe...  ...aterials not usually associated with adornments - wood ! This one above is a birch wood bangle - you can see more at his website: http://...

Italians scientists have developed a new artificia...  ...ts have developed a new artificial bone made from wood should be an improvement over the plastic and met...  ...substitute, the scientists start with a block of wood -- red oak, rattan and sipo work best -- and heat...