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- The London Design Festival: What happened material-wiseLast week, from 16 to 24 September, the London Design Festival 2017 took place. Between all sorts of wonderful design installations, such as a…
- Iceberg by Nathan AllanDesigned by Garret Cord Werner Architects & Interior Designers for Nathan Allan Glass, Iceberg is a glass top surface design that captures the fluid…
- Liquid GlacialThe texture and movement of melting ice are seductively frozen in a transparent acrylic in Zaha Hadid’s latest ‘Liquid Glacial’ Series. The series includes…
- PralPral is an artificial material, resembling marble, granite, wood or metal. It is available in various hues, divided into eight categories: Ice, Sand, Stone, Crystal, Water, Musk, Earth and Rainbow. The colours of the materials are through and through and not just on the surface.
- Charred Accoya Clads A Compact Woodland Wellness RetreatBE_Design has completed Woods Retreat, a compact wellness space set within a wooded landscape in Springs, East Hampton, New York. The 56-square-metre building combines…
- A wooden circular pavilionDesigned by Verstas Architects, the Helsinki Biennial Pavilion is made of wood, made of prefabricated modules, and has received the Architecture MasterPrize. In 2021,…
- A 3D printed haute couture dress made of cocoa beansIce cream brand Magnum collaborated with sustainable fashion designer Iris van Herpen to create a vegan haute couture dress, 3D printed and made from…
- “CAVA” SPARKLING BY NATURECava will make your kitchen or any other project sparkle! Diresco's latest product line, with the festive name of Cava, once more manages to…
- Cereplast Expands Bioplastic Applications with Freeze-Tolerant Compostable ResinBiopolymers used in freezing temperatures. This is possible with the new polyactic resin developed by Cereplast. HAWTHORNE, Calif. -Cereplast, Inc., manufacturer of proprietary, bio-based,…
- Halo shirt’s smart foam collar protects athletes from whiplashCanadian start-up Aexos developed Halo, a compression shirt fitted with a collar made of smart material that helps reduce whiplash of the head and…
- Navel guitar is made with 50,000 year old kauri woodDesigner Lorenzo Palmeri designed Navel, a series of three types of electric guitars, one made of beech wood, one with a self-healing surface, and…
- 5 3D printed houses you might live in on MarsNASA and partner Bradley University of Peoria, Illinois, have selected the top five teams the latest stage of the agency’s 3D-Printed Habitat Centennial Challenge…
- On the road to a sustainable and durable futureVarious initiatives are experimenting with new materials to build more sustainable roads in the future. Many roads are made from asphalt or concrete, but…
- Keep your products cool with sheep’s wool insulationWith our oceans polluted with plastic, a lot of which consists of singe-use plastic from packaging, it’s good to see more and more companies…
- S.Café coffee fabricS.Café is made from a combination of coffee grounds and polyester. In a low-temperature, high-pressure and energy saving process, the coffee grounds are combined with the polyester yarn surface, changing the characteristics of the filament and adding properties like fast-drying, UV-protection and odour control.
- Onak: an origami canoe from a new composite materialCanoe and origami enthusiasts, pay attention! Two Belgian canoers, designer Otto van de Steene and engineer Thomas Weyn combined the best of two worlds…
- Willow paperStudents from the Iceland Academy of the Arts have created a range of materials including this paper, glue and string by adding nothing but heat and water to willow. The process of boiling loosened the bark of the willow and softened the fibres of the leaves and bark. The willow project is an investigation into one of Iceland’s newly gained raw materials, the willow tree.
- All-glass Facade Continues to Sparkle in AmsterdamLast week, the Crystal Houses located on Amsterdam’s P.C.Hooftstraat generated much excitement thanks to this Chanel flagship store’s facade of clear glass brick. Following…
- Waste No More With This Super Slippery CoatingBest of 2015! (Originally published July 9, 2015) The days of wasting ketchup, mayonnaise and other substances that stubbornly stick to the insides of…
- Easy Being GreenThe hides of the ‘Easy Being Green’ collection are produced in a sustainable way and are safe for the environment and human health. The hides are vegetable tanned, chrome-free and dyed with safe materials. After tanning the leathers remain unsealed; the 100% bio-degradable hides provide a natural, breathable surface with a soft hand.
- I GlassatiBasic textures of coir and jute fibres have been given a rubberised coating of variable thickness. The manually applied coating smoothes the textured, hand-woven surface. Basic modules are combined in multiples through a technical binding, that creates lines of light through the surface, enhancing the irregular, uneven joins.
- Superhydrophobic in SeattleThis water-charged advertisement combines two of the things Seattle is perhaps best known for: rain and music. Using stencils and a superhydrophobic, industrial strength…
- This jacket is hot – and cool!These days, technology is pervasive in fashion. You probably have a warm winter jacket made of synthetic fleece, perhaps a natural wool, or a…
- BeltHand made, cut, assembled and fired glass with soft molten edges. Custom mix colors to produce a color range that complements to any specific color scheme. Available in multiple custom sizes, patterns, techniques and colors.
