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- Lamps made of fallen leavesItalian designer Jasmin Castagnaro designed light shades and other products made with naturally fallen leaves and bioresin. The project comes forth of Castagnaro’s desire…
- Vegan sneakers made from cannabis leavesGerman high-end sneaker brand Nat-2 presents vegan sneakers made with real cannabis leaves. After shoes made from stone, mycelium, milk, coffee, blood, and other…
- Beleaf: a chair made from fallen leavesIn order to offer an alternative to the use of plastic, as well as to use waste material, Slovakian designer Šimon Kern designed a chair with…
- Shoes made with coffee and olive leavesGerman shoe company Nat-2 designed sneakers made from real coffee, while German shoe company Thies introduces a line of leather shoes tanned with olive…
- Turning Birch Leaves and Peanuts into Sustainable Laser TechnologyPhysicists at Umeå University in Sweden, together with researchers in China, have developed a laser made entirely from renewable biomaterials—specifically birch leaves and peanut…
- What We Leave Behind: A Community-Woven Bamboo Pavilion at Sydney FestivalAt the 2025 Sydney Festival, design studio Cave Urban created What We Leave Behind, a large bamboo pavilion shaped by public participation. Installed at…
- Lamp shades made of cabbage leavesStudio Nir Meiri, in collaboration with India based designer Vaidehi Thakkar, developed the Veggie Lights, a collection of lamp shades made from red cabbage.…
- Making medicine in artificial leaves with sunlightResearchers at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands developed a mini-reactor that, similar to leaves in nature, absorbs sunlight and drives chemical reactions,…
- 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…
- Goodnature: Compostable Fruit Packaging from Agricultural WasteThe company Goodnature introduces a sustainable packaging solution that transforms agricultural waste into fully compostable fruit packaging. Developed in Thailand, the material combines local…
- 4 examples of Ukrainian material designIn an exhibition called Affair with Earth, displayed at Dutch Design Week 2019, 4 Ukrainian designers showcased their sustainable material design. Hosted by Art-East…
- Glowing treesStreet lights are an important part of our urban infrastructure — they light our way home and make the roads safe at night. But…
- The future of wood- and cellulose-based materialsStudents from Chemarts, a collaboration between School of Chemical Engineering (CHEM) and The School of Arts, Design and Architecture (ARTS) of Aalto University in…
- Biomaterials as material of the year at London Design FairFor its 2019 edition, the London Design Fair, taking place from 14-22 September 2019, chose biomaterials as its Material of the Year, represented by…
- Furniture made from leaf leatherBrazilian design studio Furf designed furniture made with a leather-like material made from leaves, developed by organic tannery Nova Kaeru. Vegan, plastic free leather…
- Using plants to light the wayWhat if, instead of turning on the lights when it gets dark, you could read by the light produced by your plant? Not one,…
- Blue-stained Pine is FineBeetle-kill wood is dyed a kind of grey-blue and is softened when beetles attack it. From i-Phone cases and lamps to high tech building…
- Optically transparent wood to replace glazingResearchers at the University of Maryland (USA) developed a way to transform wood into a transparent material with less chemicals and the power of…
- A biodegradable clay material made of tea wasteAs part of her thesis project at Tongji University, Chinese designer Jiwei Zhou developed a pliable, clay-like material made from tea-waste using a biodegradable…
- Bioplastic made from cactus juiceSandra Pascoe, researcher at the University of the Valley of Atemajac in Mexico, developed a biodegradable plastic made from the juice of the edible…
- The Future of Textiles & Fabrics: an interview with Anne Marie Commandeur & Liesbeth in ‘t HoutThe textile sector is evolving in many different sectors: the clothing industry, interior design, and technical applications. Textile innovation experts Anne Marie Commandeur and Liesbeth…
- New Skoda Vision RS’s interior sports vegan materialsPresented at the Paris Motor Show 2018, the interior of Skoda’s new sporty RS models sport sustainably produced vegan materials: Piñatex, Alcantara and recycled…
- Material highlights at Dutch Design Week 2018 part 1Dutch Design Week takes place this year from 20 to 28 October. As always, the event focuses on designs of the future. Especially for…
- From waste to resource: innovations in plastic recyclingAs today is World Environment Day, we take a look at some innovations in the recycling of plastic waste, a major threat to our…
