Resting Reef is a startup created by Louise Skajem and Aura Murillo as part of their Master’s degrees at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London. It starts from a double analysis that is as interesting as it is disturbing: dying is killing our planet. Just in the US, every year 100 million…
Vinpearl Project is the welcome center of the Grand World Phu Quoc master-plan, which is part of the massive Phu Quoc United Center, Southeast Asia's top resort, entertainment, and shopping supercomplex. The scope of the project is impressive, with a building area of almost 1500 sqm.
The client asked VTN Architects to make a bamboo…
Looking at human hair as a material can be puzzling, but overcoming this taboo offers many advantages. An abundance quantity, non-toxic, non-irritating to the skin and anti allergic material to work with. It has a strength to weight ratio comparable to steel. It can be stretched up one and a half times to its original length before…
Since last week, we have started publishing a selection of the best articles of 2021. After new materials, today we will present projects, studios and initiatives that pay particular attention to sustainability: material recovery labs, exhibitions, 100% sustainable products and much more. For the more curious, next topics will be: innovative projects, social projects, best…
To end the year in the best possible way, we will present selections of the most interesting projects we talked about in 2021. After the many requests we have received on the subject, the first article is related to new sustainable materials, an increasingly widespread trend since the arrival of pandemic. Construction materials, new leathers,…
This article was written for Salone del Mobile.Milano and previously published on salonemilano.it digital platform
For the first time ever Italy’s most coveted design award is focusing on the theme of “Sustainable and Responsible Development”, reflecting not just current concerns but a journey that began almost thirty-five years ago.
ADI first mentioned sustainability back in 1987 in…
MUSA Intimates is a Dutch sustainable lingerie brand that strives for a world in which feeling comfortable in your own skin is the new ideal of beauty. MUSA was founded by three young entrepreneurs who, fed up with the gap between supply and demand for young women's underwear, wanted to fill this void with a…
NotPla is a sustainable startup that has created an edible, biodegradable packaging made from seaweed and plants. The product is designed to replace plastic. It all started with Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez and Pierre Paslier who co-founded Skipping Rocks Lab while studying Innovation Design Engineering at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art. After their first Ooho video…
Over the years we have talked about many projects related to food: edible packaging, mushrooms grown on waste, materials made from food waste, new eating experiences... Today, however, we present an innovative project linked to food production.
We all know vertical gardens and their variations, but how many of you know underwater farms? Nemo’s Garden…
During the last two years, one of the increasingly central themes in the sector is that of the Circular Economy. The world of Design, which has always been responsive to external stimuli, is working hard to find sustainable solutions that can make a real difference. In recent months, we have talked about many material experiments…