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Unstainable: Please Spill Coffee On This Material
Thanks to the latest in nanotech coating technology, the most elegant white surface or shirt can stay that way. This so-called ‘Unstainable White Shirt’ by Elizabeth & Clarke works by disrupting the hydrogen bond that ...
Read more >Polyurethane Leather: Is synthetic better?
Polyurethane leather and innovative companies such as Ultrafabrics are taking industry by storm, particularly in the automotive industry where polyurethane leather is the interior finishing material of choice for manufacturers such as Range Rover. As ...
Read more >Tannic Acid Wash
Manmade materials meet nature with spectacular results in the Tannic Acid series by the Eindhoven based Studio Steven Banken. The series is inspired the concept of a rusty nail surrounding by blue stains on oak. ...
Read more >The ‘Cool Brick’
The ‘Cool Brick’ by Emerging Objects (Designers: Virginia San Fratello and Ronald Rael) utilizes the strategy of evaporative cooling, which was widely relied upon in hot climates before the development of refrigeration in order to ...
Read more >Bioelectric
Bioelectric by London-based product designer Jeongwon Ji challenges the archetypes of electronics through material exploration. Industrial processes have streamlined manufactured products, but what if we allow new materials to be expressive and tactile? Like many ...
Read more >Shell Lace Structure by Tonkin Liu
Shell Lace Structure is a single-surface technique innovated by the award-winning, London-based architecture practice Tonkin Liu in collaboration with engineers from Arup. Inspired by the geometries and performance of mollusk shells, the technique was developed ...
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