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24 December 2008

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This is the Materia Newsletter for December 2008, packed full of new materials, events and information.

For your inspiration, read on!

Team Materia

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Real floating pasta! It is embedded with a special suspension technique in very clear acrylic. Now all sorts of objects can float freely in the material and create a 3-dimensional magical effect. Almost all non-porous natural materials can be used with this technique. The standard collection now includes pasta, swirling multicolored metallic fabrics, textiles and printings. read more

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Some women like bags, some women like shoes. We're guessing architect Zaha Hadid is a shoe woman. Landscaping a shoe that merges seamless with your body. In collaboration with Lacoste this dynamic footwear design started by digitizing the Lacoste crocodile logo and use this as a basis to explore a series of surfaces with repeated patterns. read more

Your project here

An American Self-Portrait by Chris Jordan. Running the Numbers,looks at contemporary American culture through the lens of statistics.This project examines the bizarre measures of society in large prints, assembled from thousands smaller photographs.Each image portrays a specific quantity of something e.g. 32,000 Barbies, equals the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US. read more

Events

Materia Inspiration Center organizes an unique congress February 5th 09: Nature has all the answers. A congress about biomimicry: the science that studies and mimics nature to solve problems within society. The opportunities and possibilities with regard to architecture, design and product design are numerous and will be discussed during this inspiring congress. Get inspired by (inter)national top speakers such as Janine Benyus. read more

Inspiration

Its alive! Almost an organic car. Concept cars gave automotive designers a chance to let their imaginations run wild, often with outlandish results. But even by that measure, BMW has came up with something as weird as innovative; a shape-shifting car covered with fabric instead of steel, aluminium or even carbon fibre.
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