• A Cardboard Giant Plastic Tap – free for Students! Ever since I built a four-story tall Giant Plastic Tap, spewing plastics all over the UN headquarters of the United Nations when the Global Plastics Treaty was signed, I’ve received hundreds of requests to rebuild it worldwide.  While it’s been an honor to build these giant installations globally, I’ve always dreamed of making a more […] vonwong 0 Comments March 18, 2024
  • Impossible Maternity Photos with Fruits & Vegetables After noticing that Corn looked like Skyscrapers, my mom asked if I could help her create a series of tiny world portraits of my 8-month old pregnant sister and her husband. My sister is a pretty adventurous lady but since the lockdowns began, we’ve been all trapped… so we decided to give her an adventure […] vonwong 0 Comments May 26, 2020
  • My Friend And I Built The World’s Tallest Closet My friend Laura is a social impact designer who has an unconventional passion for clothing. She realized long ago that we buy far more clothes than we need, simply because we can. Since then, she’s been looking to find different ways to get people to fall in love with their clothing. Telling people to “not buy more […] vonwong 0 Comments December 17, 2018
  • Where are your clothes born? 10 years ago, this was a clothing factory that employed almost 5000 workers Once called the Tak Fat garment factory – it is now being renovated and converted into a creative coworking space in Cambodia. When it went bankrupt in 2009, thousands and thousands of pounds of brand new clothes were abandoned. I’m always hunting for […] vonwong 0 Comments April 23, 2018
  • Paralyzed mom hangs off cliff for Mother’s Day I never thought I’d find myself dangling off the edge of a cliff, in pouring rain, while sitting on a wheelchair. Blue Mountain Adventure Company, our safety riggers wanted to test the rig out on someone that was able bodied first. That someone, was me. It all started when we wanted to offer a complete stranger […] vonwong 0 Comments May 8, 2017
  • These Kids Are Growing One Billion Oysters! These kids are only 16 years old They are students of the New York Harbor School and part of the Billion Oyster project: an initiative designed to restore the underwater ecosystem of the New York Harbor by growing a few oysters. And by a few, I mean one billion. Their goal: To grow One Billion Oysters I first […] vonwong 0 Comments April 24, 2017
  • Mad Max meets Trump’s America When we first planned this photoshoot almost nine months back, it was never meant to be political. However, with President Trump’s recent commitment to bring back coal, my fantastical concept started to feel a lot more real. Earlier in the year, I had stumbled across a website that was bottling oxygen from the rocky mountains and […] vonwong 0 Comments January 30, 2017
  • 10000 plastic bottles, one mermaid and a single wish If the average American uses 167 plastic bottles a year, in 60 years they will have used 10,000 plastic bottles. Those same single use bottles will be around for your children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children. That’s a lot of bottles to be […] vonwong 0 Comments December 12, 2016