Green Zone - Something From Nothing

First, happy Earth Day.  Any of my posts will work for the occasion but I thought reminding the world that there’s always a way to reuse seemingly useless materials would be a good fit for today.

I work in production. We create finished products from raw materials. Posters and banners from paper and vinyl? Check. Custom trade show accessories from aluminum & wood? Absolutely. And when we're not creating something for our clients? You guessed it. We're making something for ourselves. Prove to me that you are a craftsman and you've got my respect. Show me that you can create something beautiful and functional out of mismatched leftovers and now you've really got my attention. 

Whenever you are tasked with building something, one of the most important pieces of the puzzle is planning. It's what makes or breaks any project. In production, it's all about having enough material to complete your masterpiece without running out of supplies halfway through. In order to deliver on deadline successfully time after time you need insurance in the form of "a couple extra." Experience has taught me that trying to get exactly the correct amount of materials needed to build any given item will almost always end in failure. Need eight more 2x4s to finish that home improvement project? You better believe that you are going to need nine. When you build as many things as we do you quickly end up with a pile of leftovers, especially if you didn’t make any errors along the way. The trick is keeping these unused materials from landing in the dumpster. Combine a little imagination with some extra dedication and the end result can truly be something from nothing.

Here is a gallery of some of our scrap creations. All of these items are made almost entirely from leftovers. Got something you want us to make but didn’t realize we do that type of work? Just email us. info@zone5.com 

Check out the pics on our Flickr page if you want descriptions of how these were made.