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Four examples of German material design

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In various projects, students from the department Textile and Surface Design at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin have designed products from a whole range of materials. Below you will find four projects, ranging from ...

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Off grid Casa Caldera made from lavacrete

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Casa Caldera, designed by DUST, is an off-grid house located in a remote landscape on the south-western bajada of the Canelo Hills in Southern Arizona’s San Rafael Valley. Created to have an impenetrable construction as ...

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Graphene dress lights up when you breathe

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Graphene, an allotrope of carbon, is a wonderful, relatively new material with a lot of potential. It is ultrathin – only one atom thick – lightweight, conductive, flexible, thermal, and the strongest known material. In ...

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Artwork made from perforated aluminium strong enough to stand on

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This huge artwork resembling coral, called Under Magnitude and made by architect Marc Fornes and his studio The Very Many, is made of strips of white, hand-curved perforated aluminium, which are riveted together. Each piece ...

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The Green Embassy made from willow and plastic

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To promote gardening in cities, Steffen Impgaard designed the Green Embassy as an architectural framework and venue, situated in Aarhus (DK). The construction consists of several layers, made from different materials, such as willow and ...

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New IKEA kitchen units Kungsbacka made from 100% recycled materials

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Each year, approximately 100 billion PET-bottles are used and discarded, but only a fraction of those are reused. With an ambition to show the world how a circular economy can manifest itself at scale, the ...

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