Posts Tagged ‘interior’

Scintilla Lumina

A variation of SensiTile Scintilla, Scintilla Lumina extends light from a single source to hundreds of reflected points along the surface of a material. Constructed of acrylic light pipes, Lumina conveys light along considerable distances in accordance with the same principles that apply to fiber optics....

July 15th, 2009 | plastic | Read More

Cascade

3form Glass is based on a patent-pending liquid lamination technology that allows for even distribution of objects throughout the glass. It also makes clean, exposed edges a possibility and allows frameless applications. The newest addition to the 3form Glass line, Cascade, is produced by encapsulating...

July 14th, 2009 | feature, glass | Read More

Ingeo

In a notable departure from petroleum-based textiles, Ingeo derives its fiber from corn, an annually renewable resource. Bacterial fermentation is used to convert corn from a starch to a sugar and then to polylactic acid, which in turn is processed like most thermoplastics into fiber. Ingeo is a closed...

June 5th, 2009 | feature, fiber | Read More

CocoBlock

CocoBlock is a solid surface material made entirely of coconut palm that has been specially engineered to reveal its naturally fibrous end grain within a geometric pattern of bonded strips. Developed for horizontal surfacing applications by Smith and Fong, this material is available as an unfinished...

April 27th, 2009 | wood | Read More

Sonic Fabric

Artist Alyce Santoro invented Sonic Fabric after being inspired by Tibetan prayer flags inscribed with wind-activated blessings as well as by the use of small strands of cassette tape as wind indicators, or “tell tails,” on sailboats. Sonic Fabric is constructed from 49 percent recycled audio tape...

April 5th, 2009 | feature, textile | Read More

Graphic Concrete

Graphic Concrete offers a new way to produce a patterned concrete surface. Graphic Concrete’s patented technology involves the application of a surface retarder to the exterior of a concrete formliner. This method allows precast-concrete manufacturers to produce high-quality concrete elements, panels,...

March 22nd, 2009 | concrete | Read More

Wet Lamp

According to Los Angeles–based NONdesigns, water and electricity have become friends. WET Lamp is an elegant and playful series of hand-blown glass lamps, each with a water-submerged light bulb at its center. This placement of an exposed light bulb in water creates an intriguingly simple dimmer switch:...

March 8th, 2009 | light | Read More

Power Plastic

Konarka’s Power Plastic converts light to energy, and can be integrated into any device, system, or structure that is exposed to light. Power Plastic is based on organic photovoltaic (OPV) technology and is extremely lightweight and flexible. OPVs are thin films comprised of multiple nanostructured...

February 16th, 2009 | plastic | Read More

Dimple Halftone

Dimple Halftone is a new process intended to create a microlandscape of texture that, when viewed at different distances, can be recognized as a sharp image or abstract pattern. A reminder of the enlarged halftone canvases of the Pop Art era, Dimple Halftone actually encodes dots into the surfaces of...

February 8th, 2009 | digifab | Read More

Sonomorph

Inspired by the natural phenomenon of tropism—in which a plant actively responds to external stimuli—designer Natasa Zednik constructed an intelligent kinetic building system entitled Sonomorph that moves in response to changing environmental conditions. A research collaboration with Cornell University,...

January 31st, 2009 | feature, metals | Read More