Posts Tagged ‘repurposed’

Recycled Crystal Glass

Fernando Miguel Marques collects post-industrial waste glass from Atlantis, the largest Portugese producer of lead crystal glass. Marques has developed a technique that allows the repurposing of the glass into tiles, panels, and other shapes. Recycled Crystal Glass may be used for architectural surfaces...

November 12th, 2010 | feature, glass | Read More

Kaynemaile

Kaynemaile is a seamless mesh composed of polymer rings. The advantage of the Kaynemaile process is its ability to create multiple elements and assemble them into a three-dimensional structured mesh at the same time, as opposed to molding components first and assembling them later. Every single component...

September 17th, 2010 | feature, plastic | Read More

Cork Fabric

London-based designer Yemi Awosile has developed a new fabric from an innovative combination of repurposed cork and elastane. Cork Fabric is suited to interior design applications such as upholstery, wall coverings, and wall panels, and benefits from the high elasticity of elastane fiber as well as the...

August 22nd, 2010 | feature, fiber | Read More

Bio-Based Foams

The Center for Composite Materials has synthesized flexible/rigid polyurethane foams from soybean oil polyols. The advantage of these foams is that they can replace petroleum-based materials (synthetic polyols) and can be used for many applications. The morphology of the foams can be controlled by several...

July 16th, 2010 | feature, plastic | Read More

Woven Horsehair

Marianne Kemp develops woven textiles out of unconventional combinations of materials. Using small bunches of horsehair interwoven with linen or cotton, Kemp creates curious fabrics in diverse colors and textures. The horsehair is sourced from live horses overseas, mainly from Mongolia. In the weaving...

July 2nd, 2010 | feature, fiber | Read More

Flowerfall

Michelle Brand designed Flowerfall specifically to address our ever-growing amount of plastic thrown away each year. Flowerfall is an eco-contemporary “curtain” made of the bases of discarded PET bottles and articulated tagger ties, the plastic ties typically used to connect a price tag to an item....

June 18th, 2010 | feature, plastic | Read More

KiloLux

KiloLux is a monolithic glass block with the appearance of a laminate produced by thermally bonding glass at low temperatures. Wales-based Innovative Glass Products Ltd. developed the material for inclusion in building facades as a light-emitting decorative element. Because no adhesive is used to manufacture...

May 28th, 2010 | feature, glass | Read More

Creacrete

Concrete is an omnipresent material in architecture and public space. Previous attempts to use it in product design have led to massive, heavy objects which were also limited in their formal design. Creacrete is a concrete-based material that is highly dense and compact and makes thin-walled objects...

April 30th, 2010 | concrete, feature | Read More

Feather Circuit Boards

Richard Wool has recently developed a circuit board made from soybeans and chicken feathers. A professor of chemical engineering who directs the Affordable Composites from Renewable Sources (ACRES) program at the University of Delaware, Dr. Wool seeks creative, locally-available substitutes for petroleum-based...

April 16th, 2010 | digital, feature | Read More

Strandwoven Bamboo

Strandwoven bamboo is one of the most durable hardwoods known. Used typically for hardwood flooring (and other millwork components), Strandwoven bamboo is suitable both in residential and high-traffic commercial applications. Thin filaments of bamboo are mixed in a low-VOC heat sensitive resin and compressed...

January 9th, 2010 | wood | Read More