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Systemic Change Driving The Future of Sustainability
Building a sustainable future is one of the biggest challenges that we all are faced with today. With so much information around this topic, how can we craft a new direction forward? What does it …
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Top 5 Materials – June 2023
Each month, our research team juries in new materials into our material database. Here are five of our favorite and selections from this month: 1. NexCell SCF Foaming Technology MC# - …
California Textile Recovery Act: A new era of fabric recycling
California has recently announced the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2023. This regulation hopes to facilitate a coming together of research, business, and legislation to pragmatically address …
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Hot Topic – Supercritical Foaming
A foam is a material that has gas trapped within a liquid or solid. Many times, the structure of a foams consists of bubble-shaped voids of air that are trapped within a complex network of links, …
Hot Topic / Textures: Gloss, Matte, Patterned, Etc.
Texture refers to a material’s surface qualities. Similarly, the term surface finish is used in the practice of design and surface topography is used in science and engineering. In the world of …
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Top 5 Materials – May 2023
Each month, our research team juries in new materials into our material database. Here are five of our favorite and selections from this month: 1. Celium™ MC# - 1132701 Manufacturer: Polybion A …
Hot Topic / Solid Surface
Solid surface is a material composed of a filler mineral, a color pigment, and a binding resin. Solid surfacing is typically used as a cosmetic surfacing solution in the architecture and interior …
Download the May 2023 Trend Report
Discover how the macro trend of ‘Lab Life & Beyond’ is permeating through the design world and discover innovative and sustainable drop-in material solutions, picked by our expert research …
The Holistic Home – MCX on “The Mic”
What happens when a material scientist, an interior designer, and a sustainably minded manufacturer sit down with a legendary design podcaster? To find out, Debbie Millman and guests sat down at the …
Material Pulse – Carbon Neutrality
Working towards the reduction of embodied carbon in materials Carbon Neutrality remains a major goal for almost all brands that work in the consumer space as we try to keep to the 1.5ºC of the Paris …
Material-Minded Design at Milan Design Week
As we reflect on our time at this year's Milan Design Week, which officially wrapped earlier this week, we wanted to reach out and thank everyone who attended or expressed interest in our presentation …
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Our Top Brand Activations from Milan Design Week
'Design is a valuable tool to meet tomorrow’s challenges'. Here are some of this year's most immersive installations from Milan Design Week as we try to recover from the explosion of design creativity …
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Eye On: Consumer Electronics Waste
Facing booming e-waste head on and ahead of time Waste due to fashion and packaging is at the forefront of the sustainability conversation. However, there is growing concern for the sustainability of …
Do You Speak Design? Our Favorite Things We Saw at Milan Design Week
Do you speak Design? After a three-year hiatus, Salone del Mobile 2023 returned to its traditional Spring dates, offering a full week of events, installations, and product launches during Milan Design …
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How It’s Made: Color-Shifting Materials
In a digital world that champions the hyper-individual, we seek products that are plural in their identity, constantly adapting to the environment around them, just as we as consumers must evolve in …
