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Latest news
3 September
With his proposal called "Hortus ex Machina", architect André Günther from andArchitecture has won t Read more
30 August
At the 26th of August the Danish organisation of the Bella centre in Copenhagen opened the permanent Read more
30 August
The DOEN | Materiaalprijs was created in 2009 to promote sustainable design practice where the core Read more
30 August
Heavy Metal? What about soft aluminum, flexible stainless steel, foamed aluminum, copper coatings an Read more
3 August
'Fossils' is a production method for casting concrete, developed by recent industrial design graduat Read more
3 August
Materia showed a special exhibition of 300 material samples in the historical Exhibition building du Read more
26 July
The focus of the Cilicon Faytory's Coco collection is the use of unique newly invented natural cocon Read more
26 July
IsoTruss grid structures offer a lightweight and efficient alternative to traditional wood, steel, Read more
25 June
Modern orb-weaving spiders have evolved well-designed adhesives to capture preys. This adhesive is l Read more
23 June
The Bio Robot Refrigerator is four times smaller than a conventional refrigerator and cools biopolym Read more
Latest materials
Clouds
Kvadrat AS
Clouds is designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. This material instantly produces three-dimensional... Read more
Tritan™ copolyester
Eastman Chemical B.V.
Tritan™ is a new-generation co-polyester that offers unexpected advantages, including clarity, tough... Read more
Cullus Molto
Abinitio
Cullus is a sound absorbent textile used in technical and public environments. This material combine... Read more
Sensuede
American Silk Mills Corporation
This strong, supple material is manufactured from 88% recycled polyester, 12% polyurethane is inhere... Read more
Embrace
Eastman Chemical B.V.
Embrace is a copolyester raw material used in full-body shrink labels. It is being applied on ... Read more
Glass Polymer
Eastman Chemical B.V.
This raw material made from Glass Polymer offers innovative design and application possibilities. It... Read more
Dissolvo
DayMark Technologies, L.L.C
This material, when placed in water, completely dissolves, along with anything printed or written on... Read more
Invarilux
Contrarian Metal Resources
A non-directional, reflective, uniformly textured stainless steel finish designed for use in archite... Read more
Invarimatte
Contrarian Metal Resources
InvariMatte is a non-directional, low gloss, uniformly textured stainless steel finish designed for ... Read more
Flexible Sandstone
MC Wall Nederland
This flexible sandstone material has a cotton base and is available in sheets of 112 cm by 270 cm. T... Read more
Latest publications
Re-Creation
Studio-Re-Creation aims to preserve and re-shape your personal belongings and memories towards your Read more
Fragile Future
Designed by Lonneke Gordijn, 'Fragile Future' is about the amalgamation of nature and technology. Read more
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
Inspiration
Innovation involves 10% inspiration and 90% transpiration. A great deal of effort has been expended ... Read more
Wow! Strange, shocking, inspiring, out of the box… sometimes we come across things which are so rema... Read more
We are all of us responsible for looking after the environment, both for ourselves and the generatio... Read more
A creative force which is influenced by constantly-changing surroundings is a good conductor of inno... Read more
Craftsmanship or industrialisation? Individualisation or mass production? Every industry has its pro... Read more
Who, what, where, and how is something created? What is the cooperation between the various parties ... Read more
We experience our surroundings via our senses. Besides form, the haptic characteristics of materials... Read more
Intelligence: in materials, in processes, in design. What is smart? And how you use it to its best e... Read more
There is a whole world of opportunities before us which have been developed by various branches and ... Read more
What is happening on the market, what determines whether or not something will be a hit? Social and ... Read more