Posts Tagged: Material
Material Lab’s new studio manager, Sam Wood
Meet Sam, the new studio manager at Material Lab. Responsible for running the day-to-day operations at the Great Titchfield Street studio, Sam joins from a buying role at Wickes, where… Read More >
Leather Under Wraps
Once again, this month we are focusing on a material that has a long lineage and an everlasting presence in the canons of human history; leather. Whilst it may now… Read More >
Alumalux and the Dutch Walltextile Company
BCFA member Fameed Khalique’s Alumalux material reimagines classic herringbone parquet in opulent golden aluminium tiles. Design Insider will also look into the Dutch Walltextile Company, of whom Fameed Khalique represents. Fameed Khalique, luxury surface… Read More >
Working with Wood by Tim Gosling
Timber is our material focus during September. We spoke with British furniture designer Tim Gosling about his innovative use of timber alongside exciting inorganic materials. It was Tim’s material selection that… Read More >
Peeling back the surface of cork
Take yourself back to 1688 and imagine this conundrum; you’ve created a new form of carbonated wine made from the uncommonly used white grape, but you can’t keep those bubbles… Read More >
All about Cork
As you may well be aware of by now, one of August’s themes has been Cork. The product – not the place. To celebrate this theme, we have featured Designer… Read More >
The ever-flowing history of paint
Like many of the materials we’ve already focused on this year, paint is another that we have a very deep connection with as a species. The early origins of paint… Read More >
MATERIALS: LIVING WITH PLASTIC
Plastic is a huge problem. final. But…. it is also an amazing material at the same time helping us to create amazing products, being the sole solution to most human technologies…. Read More >
Material: Concrete with Jim Biddulph
Whilst there are various material ages of humankind, the Stone Age, Bronze Age and the Iron Age to name a few, there is one material that not only built an… Read More >
Materials: A Clear View Of Glass
Whilst it’s difficult to accurately date the moment of creation of glass, like last months material of focus ceramic, the substance that we look through, onto and swipe on a… Read More >
In Conversation with…Jordan Söderberg Mills
With Glass the material of focus for this month I took the opportunity to have a chat with Jordan Söderberg Mills, an interdisciplinary artist working in installation, sculpture, design objects… Read More >
PRODUCT FOCUS: SAPHIRKERAMIK BY LAUFEN
As part of our ceramic focus this month, we are looking into how this material can be pushed forward and be used in more advanced ways in design, and there… Read More >
Turning the page on paper
Some 2000 years ago a material discovery was made. Paper was invented in China, with the earliest examples dating back as far as circa 180BC. Perhaps inspired by a similar… Read More >