Founded by Katarina Holt, Verda is committed to creating a sustainable and responsible range of accessories and shoes for real change in the fashion world. Specifically, the designer has sought out and tested the best workshops, suppliers, materials and designs with which to implement her mission: to address global environmental and ethical challenges in order…
Located in Helsinki, Caracara Collective is a biodesign studio specialising in creating design collections, art installations and materials that use organic waste as a resource. Imagining a future without harmful materials, the studio's goal is to promote a new, totally sustainable Nordic design.
Specifically, all products are handmade from local waste and, thanks to the…
Among the different forms of energy harvesting, i.e., the process through which energy from 'unconventional' sources is found and utilized, there is also thermoelectricity, which studies the different phenomena of conversion of heat into electricity and vice versa that occur in all materials. For his thesis project in Product Design at the IED in Cagliari…
Let's talk again about materials with Atelier LVDW, the design studio between Rotterdam and Eindhoven founded by Laura van de Wijdeven, a graduate of the Lifestyle Design department at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Her love of nature and material experimentation led Laura to open her own atelier in 2017. Here, following the…
As in 2021 and 2023, this year, we have again analyzed the participation costs of Milan's various design districts during one of the most eagerly awaited design weeks, Fuorisalone 2024. The concept is slowly being surpassed in favor of more diffuse and decentralized events and the creation of formats for foreign countries. We will not…
Far from the glossy design that follows aesthetic trends and struggles to find sustainable solutions, there are also studios and designers who are still able to show the true political value that design can have. One of these is Studio GISTO, founded by Alessandro Mason, architect, and Alice Cazzolato, psychologist, in 2010 in Milan -…