Articles
Primary colour surprise
Some of the most common materials can be the least obvious choices for design. This lit up installation presents bright, attractive lighting against a background you wouldn’t expect. The pointed, striking design is fashioned from ...
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Game-changing floor
German engineers ASB have developed a novel type of glass flooring system that uses pre-programmed LED lights to create the lines and markings needed for any number of indoor uses. The technology allows for text, ...
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Growing stones
Two material innovators have developed a method to ‘grow’ stones which allows for all kinds of novel shapes for a material that is usually considered bulky and massive. A 3D printed nylon structure is the ...
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What to wear in the future
One of the major challenges to material innovation is the simple truth that we have to find ways to reuse the raw materials before they’re all used up. This applies in particular to textiles, a ...
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Upcycled dome
Materia is in Hong Kong this week for the Retail Asia event. To get us all warm for the show, here’s a recent Hong Kong project that makes wonderful use of upcycled materials. It’s a ...
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Drawing in the air
If you’re a designer, you know how hard it can be to get your brainwave from the page into reality. So why not print, or draw, it straight into full 3D? That must have been ...
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