Articles
Piñatex: The Pineapple Material to Watch in 2015
Piñatex is an innovative material made of waste pineapple leaf fibres from the pineapple harvesting process. Currently under development at London’s Royal College of Art, this pineapple fibre material offers a sustainable material alternative to ...
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Bakery Fuses Traditional and Modern Materials
A traditional Polish bakery created a very modern interior effect using old baking sheets for wall decor and lamp fixtures. Rather than using standard white ceramic wall tiles, the dark patina of the baking sheets ...
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Peanut Diamonds…More Than An Alchemist’s Dream?
Scientist David Frost from the Bayerisches Geoinstitute in Germany is mimicking conditions a thousand or so kilometres below the earth’s surface in his lab in order to turn peanuts into diamonds – and hopefully learn ...
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Christmas Trees Find A Joyful New Material Life
The Paris-based company Do You Green is showing that Christmas trees can continue to live a happy life after the holidays in the form of super soft, high-performing fabrics for lingerie. Companies such as Do ...
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Hello Christmas Tree
Hungarian Studio Hello Wood collaborated with Design Terminal and Hungarian Interchurch Aid to realize this ‘Christmas tree without the glitter.’ Installed in Budapest, the tree stands 11 meters tall and is made of 5000 pieces of ...
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Amsterdam’s Alley of Light
As part of the current Amsterdam Light Festival, Serge Schoemaker Architects and digiluce have realised a 12 meter long alley surrounded by a three-dimensional matrix of 2000 handmade lamps. Called the Alley of Light, the ...
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