“I used to be a wine barrel… and now I’m a chess board.”
Addressing issues of non-eco-friendly waste associated with the wine industry, wineries in the Golan region of Israel gave young designers at the Industrial Design Department at the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) the challenge of repurposing wine barrels.
(via Design School Partners with Wineries to Give Wooden Barrels a Second Life | Green Prophet)

