Mission

Evolution Glass manufactures innovative surfaces and functional art objects of exceptional quality using 100% recycled bottle glass. Our mission is to transform waste glass and bring beauty into homes and offices while taking care of our planet at the same time.

Company

Evolution Glass was founded by Bill Hess, an engineer and artist,  in 2015. Bill's innovative process balances design and sustainability making our tables, countertops and surfaces unique. By diverting glass from landfills and using it to create beautiful and functional products, Evolution Glass actively makes the world a better place.

For many years, Bill has evaluated, tested, and created products and art that utilize waste glass. Finally after years of exploration, we have perfected a process that allows us to create these stunning glass tables, countertops, and decorative arts objects from recycled bottles.  Many other companies manufacture recycled glass countertops and other glass objects, but few, if any, use 100% bottle glass.

Crafting our products from recycled beer bottles, pickle jars, and sauce containers gives these objects new life. It adds meaning to our interactions with these containers by transforming them into beautiful functional art for home and office.

Our work has received regional and international recognition. Visit our media page to review our recognitions.

Visit www.ideasonlegs.com to see some of Bill's artistic glass projects.

Core Values

Customer/ Employee Delight
We want clients and team members to enjoy and be amazed by our work.

Doing Good/ Solving Problems of Society
We address the problem of reducing glass waste by using this resource to make beautiful and innovative products.

Efficiency
Being on time matters to us. We communicate positively and proactively with clients and team members, leverage resources/ people/ equipment to complete work of high quality on agreed-upon schedule. We believe in asking for help when uncertain.

Transparency
We are honest and direct in action, both internally and with clients.

Confidence with humility
We are proud of what we are doing, and we share the message of success with the community through events and media.

Current and past collaborators/ advisors
(partial list)

Albemarle Countertop Company

Community Investment Collaborative

Greg Smith

HAPNINGS NOW LLC- Honie Ann Peacock

Heather Phillips - Small Acts Media

Howard Evergreen

Jeff Morrill

John Gray/ Ernest Designs

Nathalie Pincham – Brightworks Studio

Patrick Farley, AIA

Visible Records/ VAS of Virginia

Wendy Vigdor-Hess

Team

Bill Hess- Owner/ Principal

Bill is an engineer, artist and entrepreneur living in central Virginia. He has been working with recycled glass for over 15 years and making art for over three decades (some of his earlier work can be see here). He has completed projects locally and internationally including such far-flung places as Mongolia. After many years of research and testing, he conceived Evolution Glass as a community minded business to transform glass waste into beautiful and inspiring products and art.

Bill has expertise in all areas of product development from research and prototyping through full-scale manufacturing in consumer, medical and industrial applications. He has a deep commitment to the circular economy and environmentally responsible design and provides consulting services through Evolution Biodesign LLC. Bill graduated from Dartmouth College with a double major in engineering sciences and studio art and has a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University.  

He and his wife Wendy embrace healthy and sustainable living in rural central Virginia. Wendy is an energy worker, nutritionist and corporate wellness educator. Their children enjoy attendance at a nature-loving independent school. Bill's business activity is an extension of his passion to sustain the health of our planet through innovation in art and design.

Indiegogo Contributors

From October 2016 to December 2016 we ran a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise funds to increase our production capacity and spread the word about Evolution Glass. We're immensely grateful for all of our campaign contributors.