Things break, we throw them away, we buy new ones. With planned obsolescence and resources running out, tech innovation can feel like it's going in circles. That's where Recycling the Future came from. In 2021, 3D printing was everywhere, and we had one question: what if dead technology could print a living future?

It's a design fiction project. We took broken household appliances and gave them a second life somewhere between upcycling and surrealism. The machines we imagined borrow from Dada, useless in theory and a bit absurd. Humor was our way into a pretty heavy subject, overconsumption.

No CGI here. Everything in these still lifes exists.

The colors are bold and contrasted. A Nespresso machine that stopped working becomes a 3D printer for fancy pastries. An old Singer sewing machine now weaves a synthetic steak. Lamps and extractor fans got new jobs too.

We made every piece by hand. We hunted for the appliances on classified ads, sketched, took them apart, added industrial piping, then did a carefully set up studio shoot and the retouching ourselves. Homemade from beginning to end. Sometimes an object just needs to be looked at differently to stop being junk.