Vinylux founder Jeff Davis began moding vinyl records over custom-made forms as part of a graduate school thesis project. His designs preserve the look and feel of the old vinyl, including the original record labels, while creating new, useful, elegant objects.

Vinylux gets its supply of recycled vinyl from record shops, dealers, collectors, and, in some cases, from people's attics. Every year they recycled and reuse approximately 250,000 records, or almost 55,000 pounds of material. Vinyl scrap from their shop is sent to record-pressing plants where it is re-ground and turned back into brand new records, closing the loop on their material stream.