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With Jun Aizaki’s latest design, you could be picking up your morning latte poured into a dried gourd rather than a disposable adorned with a green siren. The Brooklyn-based designer, who owns CRÈME, recently launched a project to reduce single-use plastic waste by shaping the flowering fruit into simple drinking vessels. Heading The Gourd Project,Continue reading "Gourds Grown in Vessel-Shaped Molds Become Reusable Cups and Flasks"

Artistically transforming everyday objects, Geneva-based Franco-Japanese artist Yusuké Y. Offhause presents ‘Fuwa Fuwa’ - a series of fascinating organic pieces

The art school I’m a student at has a “Crit Week” every year, basically they get a bunch of industry folk (curators, dealers, professional artists, etc) to come in and provide outside feedback on student work. I was commissioned to design/make the thank you cards the guests were to receive. I decided upon a compounding of a prototype zine I never ended up producing in multiples and my ziplock terrarium business card. Originally I was to have the design letter pressed, but a miscommunication…

BIO-BASED MATERIALS is a research project on materials obtained from biomass. The objective is to investigate an alternative to conventional materials that often have a great negative impact on the environment. The development of these materials obtained from biomass would not only mean an improvement for the planet, but could also offer new sensations, colors, textures, smells and interactions between the user and the object. This project is developed within the framework of the Final…

berlin-based textile designer youyang song developed PEELSPHERE, a 100% biodegradable and circular material made from fruit waste and algae.

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you,” said Frank Lloyd Wright. Being acquainted with his work in organic architecture, we k

Sarah Garrison on Instagram: “This wallet is made of bioleather! 🌿 I made this bioleather from SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast) which grows during the…”

Furniture, chair, shoes, flipflops, products, assemblies made of kombucha leather as prototypes for Fab Lab Workshops, Material studies with laser cut for bacterial cellulose, cork, dm wood and fabrics.