Jorge Penadés Transforms Offcuts From Leather Factories into Structural Skin.Jorge Penades devised a new production method that transforms the apparently worthless waste from leather factories, into an innovative material that is made 100% from an animal source. The result is Structural Skin, a material-based...
Timber Community Food Hub by University of Berkeley + Kengo Kuma.From the Japanese architectural firm of Kengo Kuma and a team of students at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design comes "Nest We Grow," an elaborate timber community food hub recently constructed on the island of Hokkaido. The...
‘Hair Highway’ Collection Made From Human Hair by Studio Swine.Hair Highway by Studio Swine is a collection of beautifully polished vessels and small objects made from human hair. By combining hair with a natural resin, the designers have created a composite material that provides a sustainable...
Iconic Swedese Lamino Chair Gets Reinterpreted by Nudie Jeans.Celebrating the 70th anniversary of furniture producer Swedese, Nudie Jeans have collaborated on a limited edition interpretation of the iconic Lamino chair, unveiled last week at Stockholm Furniture Fair. Nudie chose materials that age...
Cut Paw Paw by Andrew Maynard Architects // Seddon, Victoria.Cut Paw Paw is a renovation and extension to a double fronted weatherboard home that has been left deliberately incomplete. The owners asked that the house be “ridiculously inside-out”. To accomplish this, not only did Andrew Maynard...
Gallery Post // Brick House in Nyborg, Denmark by Leth & Gori.Copenhagen-based Leth & Gori used exposed clay blocks and raw plywood to create a maintenance-free interior for this house in Nyborg, Denmark. Brick House was designed as part of an initiative by philanthropic organisation Realdania to...
Video // Ambio Bacterial Lamp by Teresa van Dongen.Ocean waves glowing blue in the dark of night - anyone who has ever experienced this knows how magical it looks. This phenomenon is caused by bioluminescent micro-organisms in seawater that emit light when exposed to oxygen. This principle...
The Future of Sustainable Packaging Design by Tomorrow Machine.Tomorrow Machine is a Swedish design studio based in Stockholm & Paris, specialising in package, product and food concepts. Designers Hanna Billqvist & Anna Glansén have a vision to build a better world through research, new technologies...
“Dome of Visions” by Kristoffer Tejlgaard & Benny Jepsen // Copenhagen, Denmark.Copenhagen’s ‘Dome of Visions' Project is the experimental love sapling conceived by architects Kristoffer Tejlgaard and Benny Jepsen in collaboration with construction firm NCC. Intelligently playing on the contemporary greenhouse...
