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- Table series are made from Concrete CanvasDesigner Neal Aronowitz used Concrete Canvas, a flexible, concrete-impregnated fabric, to design a series of tables that wouldn’t have been possible with ordinary concrete.…
- Kinetic Green Canvas: Pixelated plant art on the façadeWe can both use art and plants to cheer up the neighbourhood, so why not combine the best of both worlds? Built by Associative…
- A temporary overnight location made of canvas and woodDutch architects Floor Skrabanja and Fé Ramakers designed an overnight location sustainable canvas and wood as part of a project celebrating the 200th anniversary…
- Concrete clothConcrete Canvas have developed a ground breaking material technology called Concrete Cloth that allows concrete to be used in a completely new way. Concrete…
- Today’s materials for tomorrow’s textiles & fabrics!Recycled leather, natural fibres, 3D printed fabric… During MaterialDistrict Rotterdam 2019 (12-14 March in Rotterdam Ahoy, the Netherlands) the textile and fashion designer will…
- Handmade textured surfacesTwin brothers Richard and Ian Abell of studio Based Upon create surfaces like a work of art using metals, resins and lacquers. Applied as…
- A high end bag made of fine myceliumMycoWorks, a company developing a mycelium-based alternative to animal leather, teamed up with French luxury fashion house Hermès to create a high-end handbag. The…
- Hand-tufted carpets made with leftover carpet capacityStudio Mieke Lucia, founded by Mieke van den Hout, worked with leftover carpet capacity from big orders placed at Tarkett. Aiming to bring more…
- A rug inspired by a pebbled beachScandinavian design studio Muuto teamed up with Margrethe Odgaard to design a wool and jute carpet inspired by the sensuous feeling of walking across…
- Micro-organisms that adjust your shoesSports company Puma is working on an experimental sports shoe that uses biologically active materials to adapt to the wearer’s foot. The shoe, presented…
- 3,350 repurposed space blankets at the Burning Man FestivalRussian entrepreneur Alexander Shtanuk has started a crowdfunding campaign to fun a project that aims to transform discarded NASA space blankets to create a…
- A watch made from deconstructed illegal firearmsSwedish wearable brand Triwa created a collection of analogue watches made from Humanium, a metal made from melted down confiscated firearms. There are hundred…
- Be fashionable with handbags made from applesIn the world of material innovation, we see more and more awareness of the impact materials have on the world. When we realise that…
- Studio ‘Party’ Streams Music Videos onto FlowersThis limited-time, a very unique 24-hour live stream music video has been created for "Hana" (meaning 'flowers' in Japanese) by Tokyo-based rock band, androp. The…
- Evergreen PlattersSince antiquity, nature has inspired motifs as a central stylistic device in designed items of value, from tablewares to vases, tiles buildings. This latest…
- Oxidation AftermathOxidation Aftermath is based on the graduation project of Marlies van Putten, for which she won the KAKB award from the Royal Academy of…
- Meet the artist who paints with recycled plasticSouth African artist Mbongeni Buthelezi paints with recycled plastic rather than paint materials more traditionally known for making art. And instead of a conventional…
- Biopainting: Turning Textile Waste Into A Natural Colour PaletteSpanish artist Cynthia Nudel has developed Biopainting, a material-based technique that replaces conventional paint with textile waste and natural pigments. Her work explores how…
- Painting With Light: MIT’s MorphoChrome Enables Programmable Structural ColourResearchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed MorphoChrome, a new fabrication system that allows designers to apply iridescent, colour-changing effects to…
- KÖNIGSWINTER Light Sculpture: A Second Life for Historic FibreglassThe KÖNIGSWINTER Light Sculpture by Heilig Objects is a unique wall-mounted artwork made from a historic amber-gold corrugated fibreglass sheet. German factories produced these…
- A sound-suppressing silk fabricResearchers at MIT in the US developed a thin silk fabric that can be used to create quiet spaces. There are many acoustic materials…
- A shoe made with algae polyurethaneCalled Blueview, this shoe is completely biobased and biodegradable, with a sole made of biobased polyurethane, made from algae. Blueview is a spinoff company…
