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Finiglas

Project Museum of Modern Art Luxenburg Client: Permasteelisa Central Europe... Read more

Latest news

9 September

What if our body could bear all our electronics unencumbered by wires or cases? Through extensive re Read more

2 September

POWERleap has developed a flooring system that converts kinetic energy from pedestrian and vehicular Read more

1 September

Founded in 1999 by Tom Wiscombe, EMERGENT is dedicated to research as well as built work at many sca Read more

27 August

Korean designer HwaSung Yoo of Mars has designed a table and chair made of extruded aluminium with a Read more

27 August

Architect Pieta-Linda Auttila has completed a prototype holiday home in Helsinki, Finland, featuring Read more

26 August

California-based MotoArt, founded by artist Donovan Fell III, takes decommissioned airplanes and tur Read more

26 August

Dutch graduate designer Pascal Smelik has made an aluminium table cast from hot wax poured into cold Read more

18 August

Scientists were inspired by a unique series of bumps called tubercles on the fins of humpback whales Read more

18 August

Imagine if homeowners could print out plastic sheets of solar cells on inexpensive printers. Imagine Read more

12 August

Scream is a new aluminum chair from Bannavis Andrew Sribyatta of PIE Studio, an eco-friendly furnitu Read more

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Latest materials

Felt and Horsehair

Marianne Kemp

Horsehair weaver Marianne Kemp, felt specialist Anneke van Hoogervorst have created a new series of ... Read more

Woodfibre insulation boards

PAVATEX Benelux b.v.

PAVATEX produces high-quality insulation made from the renewable raw material wood, to give better p... Read more

Dejection-molding

Manuel Jouvin

Dejection-molding material is made from snail excrements. Indeed, gastropods barely assimilate the p... Read more

Architectural Metals

Polich Tallix

In response to an increased demand for unique and innovative building materials, Polich Tallix, a fi... Read more

Jute Wall Cable Duct

Connex Cablemanagement B.V.

Sustainable wall cable duct to connect workstations in offices and educational buildings. The h... Read more

ChipChain

Connex Cablemanagement B.V.

ChipChain is a sustainable flexible vertical cable duct suitable for installation within public util... Read more

Paper Objects & Structures

Annette V. Huizing

The paper structures and objects, designed by Dutch designer Annette V. Huizing, are made of toiletp... Read more

Algae vase

Mandy den Elzen

Algae Vases are made by Dutch Designer Mandy den Elzen. The base of the material is Laminaria (algae... Read more

Cartamela

Ecoapple Suedtirol Alto Adige s.r.l.

This paper material is made out of apple waste from the apple-juice industry. The organic waste prod... Read more

Luminoso

Litwork GmbH

Luminoso is a wood composite panel, for which thin wooden layers are firmly glued together. Fib... Read more

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Latest events

Bautec

16 February
Messe, Berlin, Germany Read more

BLICKFANG Stuttgart

12 March
Liederhalle Read more

Nordbygg

23 March
International Fairs, Stockholm, Scandinavia Read more

Light+Building

11 April
Messe, Frankfurt am Mein, Germany Read more

Maison&Objet

3 September
Paris, France Read more

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Latest publications

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

Material World 2, Innovative materials for architecture and design

Featuring over 150 materials, sequel to the Material World and a comprehensive catalogue of resource Read more

AG4 Media Facades

The book "ag4 media facades" gives a review of ag4's work within the last six years and is an inspir 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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