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This is the Materia Newsletter of November 2006 filled with new materials, events and information. For your genuine inspiration, read on!
The Materia Team
If you can't read this newsletter properly, please use this link:
http://www.materialexplorer.com/index.php?id=509
to view it online!
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Latest additions
The Material Explorer has been updated with new materials. You can see them here. Below a small selection of the latest additions:
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In the spotlight!
Steff Hagemeier, glass artist of 360 Glas Architectural glass company, says he is “mad about glass” and it shows! After being published at Material Explorer with the glass with the big bubbles, his material became the most popular registered viewed material of our members. He continued developing his glass techniques and is involved in big architectural projects. By curving, paining, illuminating, cutting and heat sculpting glass he is able to make anything the architect or designer requests. Read on >>
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 Some of the glass patterns manufactured by 360 Glas |
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Check this out!
At the Entry2006 fair in Essen (Germany) you can see the exhibition “Second Skin” until 3 December 2006.
Second Skin is a sequel to Cooper-Hewitt’s 2002 exhibition, Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design. The new exhibition will feature products and projects produced since 2002, as well as selected pieces from the original project.
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The exhibition presents examples of products, furniture, fashion, architecture, and media that are expanding the limits of the outer surface. Reflecting the convergence of natural and artificial life, the exhibition will show how enhanced and simulated skins appear throughout the contemporary environment. Designers today continually manipulate the relationship between the inside and outside of objects, garments, and buildings, creating skins that both reveal and conceal, skins that have depth, complexity, and their own behaviours and identities.
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 Left: Sheila Kennedy, portable light by Flexible solar-powered lighting, Right: Mathmos, Lighting with interactive Airswitch technology. |
Energy efficient solid state (LED) technology exists today that can help people who need access to electrical power and light. Even in small amounts, digital light can provide educational opportunities, improve community literacy and health, and increase daily household economic production.
Finally you do not have to reach for the lightswitch anymore when going to sleep. Just move your hand above the lamp and you can control the light. Mathmos ( the inventors of the Lava lamp) created this ergonomic tool. For more information, check their website.
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Materia's Inspiration Centre
The Inspiration Centre is only opened last month, and already we have welcomed over 500 visitors who were interested to experience all the materials published at the Material Explorer.
If you are interested in visiting our brand new Inspiration Centre you can find all the required information at www.materia.nl.
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Interaction by Materia
In a world that excels, the surrounding area will also be transformed. Architecture and design are becoming less static concepts and almost seem to ‘communicate’ with both the observer and the user. This communication cannot happen without the use of innovative materials, which is why the new Materia exhibition ‘Interaction’ will be featuring a selection of materials which can change colour, give off light, change their shape, shrink and expand, and even react to sound.
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The successor to ''Material Skills, evolution of materials' will be presented for the first time at the Bau2007, held from 15-20 January in Münich, Germany. For more information, visit www.bau-muenchen.de
After this launch, Interaction will be travelling to the International Bouwbeurs trade fair in Utrecht, The Netherlands, to be held from 5 to 10 february. Visit www.bouwbeurs.nl for more information. |
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Lecture
On Satrday 13 January 2007 our founder and creative director Els Zijlstra will give a lecture about Inspiration for Architects at the Contractworld in Hannover (Germany), the international and interior design forum for architecture at the Domotex fair. Materia will also show the latest materials for architecture at an inspiring exposition. Visit www.contractworld.com for more information.
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Materia WebShop
The many requests for our latest book ‘Material Skills, evolution of materials’ have led us to open our own Materia WebShop, where you can order online and pay by credit card. All orders are processed automatically and shipped by our distributor. If you have not yet ordered your own copy of "Material Skills, evolution of materials", go to our WebShop and order now!
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A final word...
As you know, Materia is constantly on the lookout for materials with special sensorial or technical properties, or used in a special way. If you have any suggestions or tips for new materials or new applications of materials, please don't hesitate to contact us at info@materia.nl.
We hope to hear from you soon!
