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Cast Aluminium

Project made with Cast Aluminium. The MAS-hand has been produced based on a copy of a human... Read more

Latest news

1 February

Recently a lot of furniture designs show the use of cork. Green thinking might well be a reason for Read more

1 February

After three days ‘World of Inspiration’, the event Material Xperience 2012 ended on Friday 27 Januar Read more

12 January

Dutch designer Jólan van der Wiel shapes stools using magnetic fields and the force of gravity. The Read more

11 January

Xavier de Kestelier of Foster+Partners is one of the speakers at the Material Xperience 2012. The ev Read more

11 January

Material Xperience 2012, that takes place from 25 till 27 January at the Rotterdam Ahoy, will presen Read more

21 December

‘World of Inspiration’ is the theme of Material Xperience 2012, to be held from 25 to 27 January in Read more

20 December

Materia was asked by the German DEUBAU, the trade show for the building industry, to put together an Read more

20 December

Material Xperience goes to China! The materials event for creative professionals will have its first Read more

29 November

Materia has announced the winners of the 3D Printing Jewellery Contest. Dutch designer Gerard Mekenk Read more

23 November

Scientists at UC Irvine, HRL Laboratories and Caltech claim to have made the lightest material on Ea Read more

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Latest materials

Mogul Moscento

Mogul Tekstil Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd. Sti.

Mogul Moscento is a nonwoven fabric with the addition of scent. Since the scent effect does not last... Read more

Mesh Backed Mother of Pearl Mosaics

ShellShock Designs Ltd.

The material used for the decorative layer of the tiles is freshwater shell and mother of pearl. The... Read more

Perforated Dichroic Film

ChameleonLAB BV.

Chameleon is a multilayered polymeric film with a polyester surface. The raw material used by Chamel... Read more

Chameleon Black Dichroic Film

ChameleonLAB BV.

Chameleon is a multilayered polymeric film with a polyester surface. The raw material used by Chamel... Read more

Noraplan unita

Nora flooring systems BV

Rubber and granite are combined in noraplan unita. The rubber material is very tough, yet permanentl... Read more

River Shell Convex Patterns

ShellShock Designs Ltd.

For the River Shell Convex Patterns range, Freshwater Shell and Seashell Mother of Pearl is used. Th... Read more

Unfinished Freshwater Mother of Pearl Tiles

ShellShock Designs Ltd.

The Unfinished Freshwater Mother Of Pearl range has clean symmetrical lines and a natural vibrance. ... Read more

Puro

Hulshof Royal Dutch Tanneries

Through the replacement of non-sustainable chemicals by sustainable products, and through the adjust... Read more

Natura

TCI Tang Chen International Corp.

Water hyacinth or water lilies are free-floating perennial aquatic plants, abundant in the Philippin... Read more

Norament 926 crossline

Nora flooring systems BV

Norament 926 crossline is a rubber product with a craftwork-like carving structure. Depending on the... Read more

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Latest publications

Re-Creation

Studio-Re-Creation aims to preserve and re-shape your personal belongings and memories towards your Read more

Fragile Future

DesignTide in the Clouds

This year’s main exhibition space of Designtide Tokyo has again attracted much attention, surprising Read more

Golden Bike

Crisis ? Get the ultimate Christmas gift! A 24-carat gold bike with Swarovski crystal encrusted fro Read more

Forms by Storms

German designer Johannes Hemann generates forms by storms, not the destructive forces of the winds, Read more

Portable Light

The Portable Light Team at KVA MATx has developed a portable textile that uses sunlight to harvest e Read more

Ball Nogues Studio

Creating spaces with a minimum of material, is the aim of the Los Angeles based architects of Ball N Read more

Buddhist Beer Bottle Temple

Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a buil Read more

Wooden Carpet by Elisa Strozyk

The carpet is made from wood veneer offcuts bonded to a textile backing. Elisa Strozyk, a design stu Read more

Charred Wood, Terunobu Fujimori

Terunobu Fujimori, uses charred Cedar wood to create the most beautiful projects that are exercises Read more

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Inspiration

Concept

Innovation involves 10% inspiration and 90% transpiration. A great deal of effort has been expended ... Read more

Curious

Wow! Strange, shocking, inspiring, out of the box… sometimes we come across things which are so rema... Read more

Ecology

We are all of us responsible for looking after the environment, both for ourselves and the generatio... Read more

Innovation

A creative force which is influenced by constantly-changing surroundings is a good conductor of inno... Read more

Manufacture

Craftsmanship or industrialisation? Individualisation or mass production? Every industry has its pro... Read more

Process

Who, what, where, and how is something created? What is the cooperation between the various parties ... Read more

Sense & Sensibility

We experience our surroundings via our senses. Besides form, the haptic characteristics of materials... Read more

Smart

Intelligence: in materials, in processes, in design. What is smart? And how you use it to its best e... Read more

Technology Transfer

There is a whole world of opportunities before us which have been developed by various branches and ... Read more

Trend

What is happening on the market, what determines whether or not something will be a hit? Social and ... Read more

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