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Sustainable design

We hear a lot about Sustainable Design, sometimes too much and often not rightly. In this section, we have set ourselves the task of showing you truly sustainable design projects, which take into account the materials used, the production processes and their contribution to a truly circular economy, capable of reducing the environmental impact.

Founded by Borre Akkersdijk in 2015, Dutch textile innovation company BYBORRE reconfigures the design process by enabling designers, interior architects, and creatives to design distinctive textiles on their own terms. Battling overproduction at its core, the inventive platform fuses digital and craftsmanship in all the right ways.

Disruptive dream weavers: the story of BYBORRE

If you squint, clothes move like kinetic sculptures–living layered portraits, animated vessels of expressiveness, of raw resilience at times. Frameless, […]

Design

09/03/2025

The idea behind the Cuboid has been percolating in Gustav Rosén’s mind for over a decade

Although F. Scott Fitzgerald taught us that we can’t repeat the past, there are those rare moments in life when […]

Home appliances

07/03/2025

iF Design Award 2025 _ final jury in Hamburg - cover

The Final Jury has selected the winners of the iF Design Award 2025

The judging process for the iF DESIGN AWARD 2025 revolved around five essential criteria: idea, form, function, differentiation, and sustainability. […]

Design

04/03/2025

As the second-most-used construction material, cement is a massive source of planet-warming gas emissions. Developed by a gifted team of researchers, the Cambridge Electric Cement is a groundbreaking method for the production of extremely low-emission concrete at scale.

Cambridge masterminds conjure up a formula for zero-emissions cement

Despite modern decarbonization efforts, such as substituting Portland clinker with supplementary materials and exploring alternative binders, concrete accounts for approximately […]

Materials & Surfaces

03/03/2025

Snapp handle by Alessandro Stabile for Verum - cover

Snapp: redefining handle design with sustainability and accessibility

Can a small object, such as a handle, bear the weight of industrial transformation without compromising on innovation, ergonomics, affordability, […]

Design

28/02/2025

Founded by Thomas Hick and Mo Vanderberghe, Belgium-based Studio Moto’s debut furniture collection aptly dubbed Stack is a modular system that lets you be the designer and create ever-evolving, bespoke interior pieces by using a virtual configurator.

More is more: Studio Moto proves continuous customization is liberating

What if we could take the lead in a perpetual, intuition-charged dance with the objects we’ve let enter our homes? […]

Furniture design

24/02/2025

Studio Chiara Caberlon x Tribù showroom _ MilanoDesignXmas 2024 - cover

A Christmas tree that unites: when creativity becomes family

A Christmas season dedicated to creativity, sharing, and design—this is the essence of the successful holiday initiative MilanoDesignXmas by TOWANT […]

Design

20/02/2025

The sheer power of zero-waste architectural materials

Following building material Flek’s decidedly impressive introduction in 2019, powered by its unwavering perfectionism, leading manufacturer 3form knew it could […]

Materials & Surfaces

17/02/2025