Articles
Corrugated boards made of recycled denim
In order to raise awareness for the waste streams of the fashion and textile industries, designer Benjamin Stanton developed corrugated boards made of recycled denim, intended for furniture design. The fashion and textiles industries are ...
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Building sustainably with wood and mycelium at DDW
With two pavilions at Ketelhuisplein in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week (19-27 October 2019) The Embassy of Circular and Biobased Building challenges the building world. With problems like climate change, increasing subsidence levels and resource ...
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Carbon fibres made from algae
Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) developed a way to make carbon fibres, often used as reinforcement for materials, from algal oil, producing a negative carbon footprint. Carbon fibres have a lot of ...
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Lamps made of beer and coffee waste
Italian sustainable design practice High Society designed a series of lamp shades made from by-products of beer and coffee production. To make the lights, High Society teamed up with Hausbrand, a renowned Italian coffee manufacturer, ...
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Low-tech household appliances
For the project Matières Spécifiques, designer Maxime Louis-Courcier designed a low-tech and passive air conditioner and humidifier, using materials with singular physical characteristics and no electricity needs. We collect more and more electronic appliances, with ...
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The world’s first wheat straw based clothing
Sustainable fibre technology Spinnova and Fortum, a major European energy company, worked together to develop prototypes of clothing made of wheat straw-based fabric. Spinnova developed a technology for manufacturing cellulose-based textiles, such as rayon or ...
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