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SpathisPhilp Inc.
Stretch Maille

Composites Evolution Ltd
Biotex

GreenCore Composites Inc.
NCell™ Natural Fiber reinforced Thermoplastics

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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

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18 June

Researchers at Universities in Ohio, USA and Fribourg, Switzerland have developed a rubbery plastic Read more

25 May

The Materia Inspiration Centre Amsterdam officially opened May 23. Over 200 architects, designers, m Read more

29 March

Dsolve: Compostable Netting Bags Made from Bioresin are Crying Out for Supermarket Uptake Read more

17 February

The annual event Material Xperience 2011 in Utrecht was a big success. More than 22.500 visitors att Read more

21 January

Dung is not a common material for creating a furniture or an object. Many of us disgust the smell, t Read more

21 January

Want to show the love for your favorite football team, your life philosophy, your company logo or si Read more

22 December

29 November

TSA-Proof 4th Amendment Underclothes – "a way to protest those intrusive TSA scanners without saying Read more

18 November

Functional Aesthetics: Parsons Explores Next Frontier in Wearable Technology. On November 19, Parson Read more

15 November

Street lights are an important part of our urban infrastructure — they light our way home and make t Read more

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Related materials

OLFactive™

MACtac Europe

Odour absorbing self-adhesive wall covering material, developed by researchers at MACtac Europe, the... Read more

Derbipure

Derbigum Nederland

This roofing membrane’s raw material is mainly composed of organic substances. In the Derbipure memb... Read more

NedZink Noir

NedZink B.V.

The titanium zinc NedZink Noir gets its look through a patination process. The uniform anthracite bl... Read more

NedZink NOVA Pro-Tec

NedZink B.V.

NedZink NOVA Pro-Tec is a prepatinated titanium zinc with a protective coating on the backside. This... Read more

Soft-Touch Coatings

P.S. Oberflächen GmbH

Soft-Touch Coatings can be applied on any paintable substrate. The coating itself is transparent and... Read more

Dichroic film foils

ChameleonLAB BV.

The basic material for Chameleon is a multilayered polymeric film with a polyester surface. The Cham... Read more

Ripietra

Angelo Grassi & C. snc

Ripietra tiles look like natural stone, but are completely made of recycled material. The composite ... Read more

Xorel

Carnegie Fabrics

Xorel is a woven textile, with all the high performance characteristics emanating from the yarn. The... Read more

Reflexions

Duropal GmbH

The glittering effect of Duropal Reflexions reminds of natural stone or granito. The HPL elements ar... Read more

An-Jing Paper

Paper Connection International, LLC

The An-Jing Paper is based on the traditional Chinese Xuan paper. These papers are handmade from bas... Read more

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Related publications

Re-Creation

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

Fragile Future

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

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

Materials, Form, and Architecture

After a century largely dominated by discussions of space and form, there is now renewed interest in Read more

Glass: Materials for Inspirational Design

This book features more than 75 examples of glass, one of the oldest and most traditional of materia 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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