The reuse of post-consumer materials including tin cans and circuit boards reflects California as both the ultimate consumer culture and the leader in the recycling movement and green design.
The fruit crate symbolically represents the historic fertility of California’s valleys bountiful with fruits and vegetables. Orchards once covered Silicon Valley, which now blooms with inventions and enterprising ventures. Three bracelets are displayed in a custom made wooden fruit crate. Bracelets and fruit crate label constructed from recycled tin containers, vintage circuit boards, 10k gold rivets, aluminum rivets.
Silicon Valley Bracelets (below)
(sold as a set with wooden fruit crate shown above)
"Circuit Board Bracelet with plums" bracelet
"Circuit Board Bracelet with cherries" bracelet
"Bead Bracelet with resistors” bracelet
The bracelets are constructed from recycled tin cans and vintage circuit boards. The fruit on the bracelets symbolizes the fertile valley along with the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of California. California exports ideas as well as produce from its fertile valleys.
The bracelets are constructed from recycled tin cans and vintage circuit boards. The fruit on the bracelets symbolizes the fertile valley along with innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of California. California exports ideas as well as produce from its fertile valleys.
The “beads” on the bottom bracelets are a combination of printed beads on tin and transistors that look like beads. Look at the bracelets more closely. In the two bracelets below you can see the combination of old computer circuit board and tin cans.
This an image of the vintage fruit crate label "Great Valley." It served as inspiration for the Silicon Valley Fruit Crate Label constructed from recycled tin cans, and vintage circuit boards.
Look at the images below:
Look more closely at the image below to see how the lettering is floating away from the surface to create the three dimensional fruit crate label.
Look more closely in the following images to look at the details including the valley image made from circuit boards.
Valley lettering and valley of vegetables made from computer circuit boards. The close- up reveals the abstract use of circuit boards and transitors.
Photo Credit: Philip Cohen
