Designed by Ferma Studio and ReCraft Design Studio – these light pair a reclaimed concrete core sample with a lampshade of bacterial cellulose, grown through kombucha fermentation until it turns soft and semi-translucent.
A team at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has worked out how to turn baker’s yeast into an architectural surface.
So much gets lost when we only see the perfection of a finished object – but peeling back the layers and getting insight into the process are where the real ideas live. Notes from the Tactile Dialogues panel at Melbourne Design Week.
At Casa Plaj, a holiday residence in Portugal, the defining feature is a lime render skin that coats the building inside and out.
Attention is being cast on blue biomass – materials made from seaweed, seagrass, algae and shell-based minerals. This revolution is starting to move from lab bench to building site, widening the bio-based toolkit without using arable land or freshwater.
From mushroom leather handbags to seaweed straws and air-purifying paint, the National Gallery of Victoria’s new exhibition is a love letter to the ingenuity of designers reimagining the materials of daily life.
Studio TOOJ’s DUK collection quietly disrupts the boundaries between form, function and materiality. Conceived as an exploration of illusion and tactility, the made-to-order series presents sculptural pieces that appear to be soft cloth draped in space – yet on closer inspection, each one reveals itself as a precisely carved, immovable form.
At Polestar, the Swedish EV company, bio-material design and innovation are completely rewriting the script on what a car interior can be.
Studio Truly Truly’s latest lighting design for Rakumba, Big Glow is a bold material experiment fusing innovation and sustainability.
Researchers at RMIT University have developed an innovative way to transform spent coffee grounds into a high-performance construction material, strengthening concrete while tackling the mounting problem of organic waste.
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