Melissa SterryDesign Heir defence: BabyArk revolutionises child-safety car seat design Wallpaper* - Jonathan BellFormer car designer Frank Stephenson is looking to revolutionise the design of the child car seat with his latest project, BabyArk The child safety seat market is not known for its bold innovation; parents
Melissa SterryDesign Plasticiet stretches recycled plastic like taffy for Mother of Pearl furniture dezeen.com - Anna Winston Monolithic slabs of pearlescent polycarbonate make up the latest designs from Dutch startup Plasticiet, which aims to bring new value to recycled …
Melissa SterryChocolate Barry Callebaut 3D-prints intricate desserts in Belgian chocolate dezeen.com - Alyn Griffiths Chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut has set up a dedicated 3D-printing studio for desserts, providing chefs with an opportunity to create bespoke …
Melissa SterrySustainability How to create a truly sustainable workplace raconteur.net - Mikaela Aitken The last decade has seen a noticeable shift in the way architects and builders formulate and construct a workplace. For Nicola Gillen, head of total …
Melissa SterryFurniture Ikea launches build-your-own party electronics | Design Week designweek.co.uk - By Molly Long Designed in collaboration with Stockholm-based studio Teenage Engineering, the collection aims to “democratise light and sound at home” with …
Melissa SterryPollution The open source platform empowering creatives to turn recycling into craft | Design Week designweek.co.uk - By Molly Long The open source platform empowering creatives to turn recycling into craft Precious Plastic seeks to tackle a “global problem on a local level” by …
Melissa SterryFurniture NEST moving crate opens up into a minimal home kit for generation rent dezeen.com - Anna Winston Malessa Studio's wooden NEST crate unpacks to create a bed, desk, bench and shelf designed in response to the increasingly nomadic lifestyle of young …
Melissa SterryRijksmuseum Formafantasma designs recyclable displays for Rijksmuseum exhibition dezeen.com - India Block Design studio Formafantasma has created a display for the Rijksmuseum's Baroque in Rome exhibition that will be taken apart and recycled …
Melissa SterryFunerals Common Accounts designs an eco-friendly funeral for the digital age dezeen.com - Amy Frearson Design studio Common Accounts imagines the funeral of the future, where liquefied bodies are used to fertilise plants and flowers, and social media …
Melissa SterryGreen Technology Kenoteq launches brick made almost entirely of construction waste dezeen.com - Rima Sabina Aouf Scottish startup Kenoteq has launched the K-Briq – a more sustainable building brick that is unfired and made of 90 per cent construction …
Melissa SterryArchitecture Pretty Plastic cladding tiles made from recycled PVC windows and gutters dezeen.com - Lizzie Crook A new range of facade cladding tiles made of recycled PVC construction waste, designed by Dutch studios Overtreders W and Bureau SLA, has been used …
Melissa Sterry EcoVisionairies bioniccity.co.uk On show at the Royal Academy, London from November 2019 to February 2020, Eco-Visionaries examined humanity's impact on the planet through the lenses …
Melissa SterryAtoms Fingerprints can now be dated to within a day of when they were made The Economist SINCE THE first use of fingerprints to identify and convict a murderer, in 1892, detectives the world over have come to rely heavily on print …
Melissa SterryFurniture Mater uses recycled plastic and rattan for latest furniture designs dezeen.com - Alyn Griffiths Ethical design brand Mater has launched a chair with a woven rattan seat inspired by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, and a stool featuring a seat …
Melissa Sterry This startup created compostable plastic wrap that’s made from shellfish shells Fast Company - Adele PetersThe plastic films CuanTec makes out of shellfish shells that are left over from seafood production is naturally antimicrobial and lets people keep using plastic wrap without worrying about plastic. Wrapping
Melissa Sterry Copper feel: Lumière Bricoleur turns scrap metal into sculptural lamps Wallpaper* - Harriet Lloyd-SmithThe duo’s first collection, mostly rendered in copper, is sourced on Copenhagen’s streets and scrapyards In March this year, Morten Ravn, one half of Danish design duo Lumière Bricoleur, bought two boxes
Melissa SterryDesign Royal Academy wants visitors to rethink the environment through design designweek.co.uk - By Henry Wong Eco-Visionaries draws from different creative practices in an attempt to find solutions for the environmental crisis. A new exhibition at the Royal …
Melissa SterrySoil Ecosystem Kickstarter is a cardboard structure that fights soil erosion dezeen.com - Jennifer Hahn Dutch designer Thom Bindels has developed Ecosystem Kickstarter, a honeycomb-shaped cardboard frame that can help small-scale farmers grow crops in …
Melissa Sterry Daniel Arsham’s Bang Olufsen moon speaker sets the atmosphere Wallpaper* - Katie Meston‘The House by Daniel Arsham’ at Selfridges explores the future of retail with a constellation of new collaborations At Selfridges in London, the three-month long Future Fantasy campaign is going through
Melissa SterryBanksy Banksy Launches GrossDomesticProduct Online Store Filled With Dystopian Home Goods dwell - Duncan NielsenBanksy’s GrossDomesticProduct online shop is surprisingly affordable—but there’s a catch. On October 1, Banksy opened a brick-and-mortar shop in South London featuring a new line of home goods marked familiar
Melissa Sterry Super-wood offers way to create air con that doesn’t need power chemistryworld.com Natural wood (left) can be delignified to create a densified wood (right) that could help cool homes clad in it. The engineered wood’s ability to …
Melissa Sterry Artificial Intelligence Has a Huge Carbon Footprint. But It Doesn’t Have To. slate.com - April Glaser This piece has been published as part of Slate’s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to …
Melissa SterryBamboo Zuo Studio builds arching bamboo pavilion over water in Taiwan dezeen.com - India Block A pavilion of woven bamboo and steel by Zuo Studio arches over a body of water to create a shady place to sit in Huludun Park in Taiwan. Zuo Studio …
Melissa SterryPollution Shed prints plastic pollution on walls to highlight the problem of ocean waste dezeen.com - Semi Han London pop-up store Pass on Plastic was decorated floor to ceiling with wallpaper depicting plastic waste to serve as a visual reminder to consumers …
Melissa SterryPainting Chinese ink paintings come alive in Apiwat Chitapanya’s wax-cast furniture dezeen.com - Jennifer Hahn Bangkok designer Apiwat Chitapanya has created a collection for specialist brass furniture brand Masaya that emulates Chinese ink paintings through …
Melissa SterryCeramics Granby Workshop recycles waste sludge from clay industries to make earthen tableware dezeen.com - Natashah Hitti Liverpool-based Granby Workshop has made a series of tableware products from the industrial and post-consumer clay waste that would otherwise be sent …
Melissa SterryBiodegradation UK government moves to end "vague and misleading" bioplastic terminology dezeen.com - Marcus Fairs The UK government has called for experts to help it develop standards for bioplastics and biodegradable plastics, amid rising concern over …
Melissa Sterry Caught in the act: Images capture molecular motions in real time phys.org - Brown University Researchers have used ultra-high-speed X-ray pulses to make a high-resolution "movie" of a molecule undergoing structural motions. The research, …
Melissa SterryIcon version of the Flipboard logo A 100-hour MRI scan captured the most detailed look yet at a whole human brain sciencenews.org - Laura Sanders Researchers report ultraprecise imaging of a postmortem human brain.
