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- Spruce Bark Hut: Turning Forest Waste Into A Living Architectural SkinUlf Mejergren Architects (UMA) designed the Spruce Bark Hut in Grödinge, Sweden, to explore spruce bark as a bio-based building material. The team collected…
- Pine Bark, Amber Dust and Coffee Grounds: Baltic Biomaterials at Dutch Design WeekAt Dutch Design Week 2026, the Vilnius-based Biomaterials Library shows biomaterial samples, prototypes and design objects by Lithuanian and Baltic creators, made from local side streams such as pine bark, amber dust and coffee grounds.
- Sustainable Bio-Rubber From Birch Bark: A Low-Carbon Alternative for Design IndustriesRubber remains an essential material for footwear, product and mobility design. However, most rubber still comes from fossil-based sources or tropical plantations, both of…
- Turning Bark Waste into a Protective Furniture FinishTree bark makes up roughly 10% of the material processed in sawmills, yet most of it ends up as waste. Many manufacturers burn it…
- Turning waste tree bark into pigment and fabricResearcher Charlotte Wenig of the German Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces investigated the potential of tree bark and found it can be…
- A structure inspired by trees made of multiple biobased materialsFor the Italian Pavilion at the 17th Biennale Architettura in Venice, which runs from 22 May to 21 November 2021, MatRes is a metaphor…
- The dark side of animal materials part 2: leather & furIn a time in which small environmental footprints and ethical work conditions are being demanded from manufacturers, more and more designers and material clients…
- Like Leather at MaterialDistrict Rotterdam 2019!In the exhibition Like Leather, a collaboration between Yksi Connect, Conscious Leather Foundation and MaterialDistrict, shown at MaterialDistrict Rotterdam 2019, surprising examples of sustainable…
- Cork Flooring Used Across Australian Health ClubCork flooring has been installed in several communal areas of The Commons Health Club in Richmond, Australia. DesignOffice selected Originals Natural flooring from Wicanders’…
- Salvage & Sap: Ancient Pine Resin as a Sustainable Design MaterialFor designers looking for sustainable materials and low-impact production methods, the Salvage & Sap collection by Earth to People offers a fresh perspective. The…
- Furniture made from terrazzo-like material made of ‘all of the forest’Japanese designer Yuma Kano created a terrazzo-like material out of unusable wood, but also foliage, bark, soil and seeds as found in the forest.…
