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- Two halves of a whole lampArtisanal crafts are slowly becoming more recognised throughout the world of design. Glass blowing has been around for about two thousand years, and you…
- Designing for Atmosphere at Dutch Design Week 2025At Dutch Design Week 2025 (18–26 October, Eindhoven), sensory experience and emotional connection take centre stage. Designers move beyond functionality to explore how light,…
- Interactive lampIs it art? Is it a machine? Whatever it is, it is glorious. It’s hard to describe Studio Toer’s light installation properly. But it…
- Material Xperience 2017 exhibits transparent solar panels LumiductThe Lumiduct transparent solar panels are one of the special items exhibited at Material Xperience 2017. Lumiduct enables transparent glass façades to generate more…
- Tiffany Façade Beijing Showcases Sculptural Glass and Recycled DesignThe Tiffany & Co. flagship store in Beijing’s Taikoo Li Sanlitun district features a façade made up of vertically arranged glass fins. Designed by…
- Polyurethane staircase creates whimsical patternsEspecially for children, French studio Artificial Architecture designed a spiral staircase made with the soft material polyurethane foam, which is slowly covered in whimsical…
- Sea salt lamps inspired by the seaThe sea has long since inspired humans, and for materials it’s no different. The sea brings us seaweed and other algae, sand, fish leather,…
- Self-folding origami from photocurable polymers leaves your hands freeIf you ever tried your hand at origami and thought it was too complicated, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Peking University…
- ‘Selfie’ façade with ballsA kinetic façade built like a giant pin-bed machine can reproduce portraits in a huge matrix of LED lights. The pavilion is located at…
- Tea And Coffee Waste Become 3D Printed Design ObjectsThe exhibition After the Last Sip explores how used tea leaves and coffee grounds can become materials for furniture, lighting and sculptural objects. Presented…
- Beeswax Lattice Panels Bring Natural Innovation to Interior SpacesA recent architectural innovation combines sustainability with aesthetic appeal by integrating beeswax as the core material for a translucent lattice panel system. This novel…
- This washable fabric has electronic devices built into itResearchers at MIT embedded high-speed optoelectronic semiconductor devices, including LEDs, within fibres that, when woven, produce soft, washable smart fabrics. Traditionally, optical fibres are…
- “We don’t need more designers. We need reformers!”The behaviour of materials The future is similar to evolution, and materials are starting to show more and more of that behaviour. We are…
- Interactive Wood by Johannes Wöhrlin at MX2016Wood is perceived as a high-quality material, generating surfaces with anisotropic properties and unique individual grain. Every piece of wood is as unique as a finger…
- Textile architecture creates Hybrid TowerWe all know rigid building materials such as concrete and bricks. But what would happen if a structure was built with soft materials? Various architects…
- Bacteria-fighting materialsBillions of dollars are spent each year fighting what sometimes seems like a losing battle against infections in hospitals and medical facilities. However, many…
- Colour and texture changing materialPeople often try to become one with nature, sometimes literally by using camouflage, such as military suits. Some animals, like squid or octopuses, do…
- The Boundary Pushing Ceramics of Jeremy ColeStriking a balance between art and design, Jeremy Cole’s distinctive floral style arises from an aesthetic exploration surrounding the relationship between ceramics and light…
