Fady Youssef is an Egyptian art director based in Dubai. He created this amazing series of character design made out of waste, literally. With old electronic parts he put together some quite inspiring compositions with character full of personality. It definitely reminds me of Wall-e by Pixar.
With scores of new smartphones and computers release every quarter, tons of electronic devices are thrown away and they often wind up filling our landfills and polluting the environment.
Electronic waste is a growing concern over 2.4 million tons of waste was generated by gadgets in 2010 alone. This waste often includes toxic materials such as lead, mercury and lithium to name a few.
The concept here is to keep electronic waste out of the environment by making these up-cycled characters using static and rigid shapes of digital components to give a second life to objects that can be transformed to living characters to tell a story even in one shot.
The list is infinite. I reuse everything from electronics components that express my fantasy.
Character Design from Waste
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