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Resin Meets Travertine with ‘Lagoon’

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Beautiful ‘Lagoon’ is a coffee table designed and created by Alexandre Chapelin from LA TABLE. It is made with a traverine piece of marble which has been sculpted to evoke the fluid forms and slopes ...

Ecology

Pink Tide: Another Case For Plastic Alternatives

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This week, thousands of bright pink plastic detergent bottles began washing up on the shores of beaches in Cornwall, U.K. at Poldhu Cove. The National Trust says it believes the bottles, which are speculated in ...

The Grit Collection: Designing with Sandpaper

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‘Grit’ is furniture collection by Israeli designer Avi Fedida offering inspiration in terms of materials and techniques with unique textures created by grinding wood into gritty sandpaper. Sandpaper is of course typically used in construction ...

Magnetic Fabrics by Lilian Dedio at MX2016

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The goal of this work was to explore new limits of fabrics by experimentally developing their familiar features through unexpected modifications.To create these modifications, different aspects of magnetism are incorporated into traditional fabrics. The combination ...

Innovation: Thin Film Solar Cells at MX2016

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Sustainable energy sources such as sun or wind energy have the drawback that they are also highly visible elements that are often considered eyesores. Fortunately, new developments in solar, or photovoltaic cell technology, are making ...

Mobile Factory turns debris into building blocks for a new life

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The Mobile Factory from the Netherlands transforms debris from disaster stricken sites into lego-like building blocks that are rebuilding communities around the world. Rubble – be it from war, natural disaster or demolition – is ...