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  1. Feeling Felt Feeling Felt
    Felt is a material which is experiencing a renaissance. Not just in fashion but nowadays also in product design and architecture, more and more creative spirits are exploiting the potential of this material. Read
  2. Interieur / Exterieur Interieur / Exterieur
    Nya Nordiska, a leading international textile company based in Dannenberg, North Germany, whose early stages were strongly influenced by Scandinavian design, recently received a highly unusual enquiry from the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. Read
  3. Materiology Materiology
    This is an exciting and stimulating book which is both an enjoyable read and a detailed and accurate work of reference! Read
  4. Translucent insulated glass Translucent insulated glass
    The extension to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City is an impressive example of the use of translucent but opaque glass facades... Read
  5. Duke Ellington meets King Midas Duke Ellington meets King Midas
    This listed Haus Nürnberg was renovated in 2006 by the architects Reuter Schoger and re-opened as the Hotel Ellington. And, credit where credit is due, guests are confronted with their first unmistakable reference to the jazz age of the golden twenties as soon as they enter the lobby. Read
  1. 3form case studies 3form case studies
    Refurbishing the Alice Tully Hall (built 1969) in the Licoln Center, New York, presented a unique challenge for the U.S. company 3form. Read
  2. The new materiality of shadows The new materiality of shadows
    For hundreds of years artists and architects have been fascinated by cast shadows and perspective – the two shaping factors of spatial representation. Today the direct control of production machinery by means of digital design tools imparts an entirely new complexity to 'optical reliefs'. Read
  3. Zumtobel Highlights Show Zumtobel Highlights Show
    The Zumtobel Highlights Show has been kicked off on 2 September, which marked the beginning of a 23,000 kilometer journey for the product innovations. Read
  4. Tactile Legerity Tactile Legerity
    Cork enables innovative production methods and new ways of interaction with the environment. Widely praised as a pioneering force in green trends, this tactile and unconventional material... Read
  5. Materialica Materialica
    The tenth MATERIALICA in Munich focused specifically on design. For the fifth time the fair presented the Materialica Design + Technology Award to outstanding and innovative performance in the fields of design or engineering. Read
  1. ComplexCity ComplexCity
    ComplexCity is an exploration to find a concealed aesthetic by using the pattern formed by the city's roads, which have been growing and evolving randomly through time. Read
  2. sweet hope sweet hope
    Sweet Hope is a curtain fabric, designed by the acclaimed Japanese designer Akira Minagawa. Ideal for offices, it offers superb heat and light regulation properties. Read
  3. Polyhydroxybutyrates (PHB) reinforced by nano particles Polyhydroxybutyrates (PHB) reinforced by nano particles
    As a result of diminishing resources and rising prices the age of oil is drawing to a close. Accordingly there is increasing interest in renewable raw materials as alternative sources... Read
  4. Polycarbonate goes Olympic Polycarbonate goes Olympic
    The locations for the competitions in this summer's Olympic Games in China had to meet a range of criteria.... Read
  5. MaterialVision MaterialVision
    Innovative materials inspire designers and architects to create ever new products and applications. This was demonstrated at the end of 2007, when the latest developments in the field of new production and surfacing materials were presented at two leading materials exhibitions: Materialica in Munich and Material Vision in Frankfurt/Main. Read
  1. Datenbank zum Anfassen Datenbank zum Anfassen
    Ein Archiv spezieller Art wurde jüngst mit dem Materialarchiv ins Leben gerufen. Das Materialarchiv ist eine Symbiose aus Online-Datenbank und einer Materialsammlung zum Anfassen als auch des haptischen Erlebens von Werkstoffen. Read
  2. Ceramic Tiles of Italy. A Natural Beauty Ceramic Tiles of Italy. A Natural Beauty
    From 22 to 27 April 2009 the aesthetic quality and cutting-edge technology of Italian ceramics will be the main focus of the image show “Ceramic Tiles of Italy. A Natural Beauty”. Read
  3. «Design as Italian Value» «Design as Italian Value»
    Ceramic tiles as wall decoration were brought to southern Europe by the Moors and the first European ceramics industry was to be found in the Roman Empire. It is therefore not surprising that the most important trade fair for the ceramics industry takes place in Bologna, Italy. Read
  4. Fashionable Technology Fashionable Technology
    Sabine Seymour, who among other things lectures at the Parsons New School for Design, New York, has put together a collection of products and materials which looks at the close interlinking of fashion, design, technology and science... Read
  5. Notes on Notes on "Brick: the Exhibition"
    The European Ceramic Workcenter (.ekwc) in the Netherlands regards itself as an international workshop facility and provides designers, artists and architects with the opportunity to carry out technical and artistic experiments using ceramics and tiles as materials. Read