Yuma Kano Transforms Forrest Debris into a Sustainable New Material.Tokyo-based designer Yuma Kano has developed ForestBank, a unique and innovative material that looks to find new value in our forests. Yuma repurposes twigs, leaves, and branches, bound by a water-based acrylic resin, transforming them...
A Creative Dialogue: Versa by Tom Fereday & Charlie White at Melbourne Design Week.Tom Fereday and Charlie White have presented Versa, a joint show at this yearâs Melbourne Design Week. Developed through a process of independent collaboration, the pairâs works utilise end-of-life materials and the challenging of...
Recooked Leftovers: Mo de Movimiento in Madrid by Lucas MuĂąoz.Mo de Movimiento is no ordinary restaurant. Itâs a phantasmic space brought alive from dead objects, each one resuscitated, repolished and transformed into something new. For most designers, an interior like this would have been a tall...
Zero Waste Installation at MCA Inspired by a Painting by Youssofzay + Hart.Sydney-based architecture studio Youssofzay + Hart have completed an installation design for the MCAâs first retrospective on Australian artist Vivian Binns. Taking inspiration from Binnsâ 1993 painting âSurfacing in the Pacificâ,...
Silo: A Zero-Waste Restaurant in London by Nina+Co.In 2019, Nina Woodcroft of Nina+Co designed Silo, the worldâs first zero-waste restaurant by award-winning chef Douglas McMaster (the restaurant trades directly with farmers to compost any leftover scraps in a bid to 'close the loop' in...
Architectural Remnants: (Of) Bath, MMXXII, by JamesPlumb and Rich Stapleton.Rich Stapleton and JamesPlumb have collaborated on a joint exhibition that offers a dialogue between Stapletonâs single edition photographs and JamesPlumbâs wall mounted works and freestanding sculptures created from blocks found lying...
Forite Tiles by Studio Plastique & Snøhetta for Fornace Brioni.Norwegian studio Snøhetta teamed up with the Belgian research practice Studio Plastique and the Italian manufacturer Fornace Brioni to develop Common Sands Forite, a collection of recycled glass tiles made from components found in...
Australian Designers & Artists Transform Broken Design Objects Into Future Heirlooms.In Transformative Repair, leading Australian designers transform the broken design objects of celebrated creatives and climate change activists into future heirlooms. This important initiative aims to generate discussion around the...
Raw Objects by Theodore Psychoyos.At Carwan Gallery in Athens, Theodore Psychoyosâ Raw Objects unveils a collection of functional objects, hatched while the artist was building his own home on the island of Naxos. The collection is an ongoing exploration inspired by the...
