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Plastic fabric to keep you cool

Published 8 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

In hot weather, it is hard to keep cool, especially since the summers keep getting warmer because of climate change. Clothing is something that contributes to the heat, as it does not allow infrared, the ...

Colour and texture changing material

Published 8 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

People often try to become one with nature, sometimes literally by using camouflage, such as military suits. Some animals, like squid or octopuses, do not need clothing to achieve this. They can change the colour ...

Baubotanik: living in a tree

Published 8 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

Living somewhere was never so literal as with the building construction using baubotanik, or living plant construction, a technique fusing tree shaping and modern materials. Baubotanik manipulates the growth of trees into a certain form ...

Sense & Sensibility

Fabric Prism

Published 8 years ago by Allie | no responses

Fabric Prism is an inflatable immersive color installation built around the fundamental properties of light and color. Outside, red, blue, and green fabric panels filter light through an inflated membrane where color wavelengths combine, producing ...

Amsterdam’s 3D Printed Cabin

Published 8 years ago by Allie | no responses

Located in a new pocket park that was formerly an Amsterdam industrial site, this urban retreat by DUS architects is entirely 3D printed with a bioplastic material that can be shredded entirely or reprinted into ...

STAMP

Published 8 years ago by Allie | no responses

Coming from Sweden’s multi-cultural design collective outofstock, in collaboration with Bolia, STAMP is a materially inspired pendant lamp that plays with geometry and a combination of soft and hard materials. The body of the STAMP pendant is made ...