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- 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…
- Olive Tree Roots Become A New Furniture Material In Uprooted V02Spanish designer Jorge Penadés has presented Uprooted V02, a research-driven furniture project that explores new uses for olive tree roots. The project debuted at…
- Auto parts made of olive tree wasteCar company Ford is experimenting with the use of a composite made of olive tree waste and recycled plastic for car parts. The region…
- Furniture made of olive wasteGreek design studio Koukos de Lab developed a sheet material made from the final waste of olives, which they use to make furniture. Greece…
- Olivewood pavilion Mass ImperfectionsWhen objects are made by hand, no two things are exactly the same. The project Mass Imperfections by Local Industries and SCALES (research department…
- Uprooted Rug Transforms Deadstock Wool Into A Customisable LandscapeSpanish designer Jorge Penadés and rug company cc-tapis have developed Uprooted Rug, a made-to-order design produced from surplus wool. Following its debut at Matter…
- The new passive log houseResearchers and students from the University of Stuttgart’s Institute of Computational Design and Construction designed and built a new take on micro-architecture, made solely…
- SLUG versus the sludgeA recently developed material called SLUG-26 might be a cheap end effective help in cleaning waterways. Researchers at UC Santa Cruz, USA, have developed…
- Printegrated Circuits: Embedding Electronics into 3D Printed DesignsA new open-source design method called Printegrated Circuits is making it easier to create interactive hardware. By combining 3D printing with embedded electronics, the…
- What not to miss at Dutch Design Week 2020 part 5: biomaterialsDutch Design Week 2020 takes place from 17 to 25 October. Due to Covid-19, the event will be held entirely virtually, but that does…
- We’re at Milan Design Week: Ventura FutureWe’re still in Milan scouting the latest innovations for you. Today, we’re at Ventura Future, showing the best material-related projects. German architecture and wood…
- 3D printed block of digital wood has an internal grainResearchers at Columbia University used a voxel printing techniques to create digital wood, complete with internal grains and external colour textures. The block of…
- Wander Wood pavilion is robotically fabricatedStudents from the University of British Columbia designed the Wander Wood pavilion, an installation with an adaptable design-to-fabrication system which was constructed by a robot.…
- Woody Collection extends the limit of wood’s curvatureDesigner Philippe Starck designed a collection of chairs called Woody, demonstrating the possibilities of wood combined with plastic. The wood is machined with a…
- Elbphilharmonie Hamburg: a glass structure supported by a brick warehouseThe new concert building in Hamburg (DE), the Elbphilharmonie, is quite a sight to behold. Standing at the shore of the river Elbe, it…
- Stealth Building with cast iron façade renovated by WORKacArchitecture company WORKac renovated a building with one of the oldest cast iron façades of the neighbourhood Tribeca in New York, both inside and…
- Baubotanik: living in a treeLiving somewhere was never so literal as with the building construction using baubotanik, or living plant construction, a technique fusing tree shaping and modern…
- Ecologically Engineered Concrete Habitat Units Enhance Marine Biodiversity at New Zealand PortLyttelton Port Company (LPC) introduced ecological design principles into its coastal infrastructure through specially engineered concrete habitat units. The project shows how maritime structures…
- Materia 2026 Explores the Creative Potential of Circular Material MatekProject Materia returns to Copenhagen during 3 Days of Design 2026 with an exhibition centred on Matek, a circular material developed by Danish design…
- Bags made from discarded airbagsBag company Freitag designed a line of shopper bags made from discarded, unused airbags. Freitag is known for their use of discarded truck tarps…
- Wind turbine blades made of woodGerman company Voodin Blade Technology developed wind turbine blades made of wood. Conventional wind turbine blades are made of a composite of fibreglass and…
