This is the Materia Newsletter for May 2008, packed full of new materials, events and information.
For your inspiration, read on!
Team Materia
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In the spotlight
Softlight Textile is a family of flexible honeycomb lighting elements designed to compliment the shaping of intimate space. It is a product line utilizing flexible honeycomb structures that can expand, contract, and flex to form a sculptural space or seating topography. The elements of the soft collection have been designed to be used and re-used in a flexible and dynamic way, replacing the need for... read more
News
Visitors to the Olympics in Beijing this summer can look forward to more than just history's largest sporting event. They'll also be able to glimpse the world's largest color LED display combined with China's first photovoltaic system to be integrated into a glass curtain wall... read more
Your project here
The Waterfall Bar designed by Tokujin Yoshioka was originally created as a public display piece for a private gallery in downtown Tokyo. The enormous hunk of solid "water" was actually cut from an optical glass block, the same kind of industrial glass that is used in observatory telescopes... read more
Events
The Wearable Technologies Conference on July 7, 2008: where fashion meets technology. Jackets with built-in GPS functions or solar panels, bluetooth communication gloves or jerseys that monitor your heart rate are no longer dreams of the future. These new materials enable functions far beyond conventional ranges of applications... read more
Inspiration
Miniaturised biosensors in a textile patch that can analyse body fluids, and fabrics that create energy while you are jogging. Smart clothes can harness body movement to power portable electronic gadgets, and measure whether the stress of the day won't damage your health... read more
Materia books
The many requests for our book ‘Material Skills, evolution of materials' have led us to sales online, you can order this book through our website 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', order the book here now.
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