the brands of 2022
In 2022, Material Matters showcased a curated mix of over 40 exhibitors to celebrate the importance of materials and their ability to shape our lives. The selection included global brands, makers, designers, manufacturers, and artists working in materials that ranged from recycled aluminium, clay, wood and glass to orange peel, roots and sugar.
A blunt story
- ROOM 13.15
PRODUCT, MATERIAL DESIGN. room 13.15
A Blunt Story® was born out of urgent and intersecting conversations about existence, agency, and our place within systems that are seemingly cemented in place.
The practice presents an alternative narrative that subverts and challenges time-worn systems with a radical and pluralistic reimagining of materials and products.
Ou medium serves as our message as the materials we develop work to inform and engage our audience to better understand their impact.
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the brands of 2022
In 2022, Material Matters showcased a curated mix of over 40 exhibitors to celebrate the importance of materials and their ability to shape our lives. The selection included global brands, makers, designers, manufacturers, and artists working in materials that ranged from recycled aluminium, clay, wood and glass to orange peel, roots and sugar.
ALKESH PARMAR
- ROOM 13.2
LIGHTING, PRODUCT, MATERIAL. room 13.2
Alkesh Parmar is a Designer, Maker and Researcher whose methodology involves an open dialogue between craft and design. He applies a ‘craft-based’ approach to engaging with materials and generating ideas, and a ‘design-based’ approach when realising these ideas into products and objects. He has been a pioneer in the use of local waste material for over a decade, working with materials such as orange peel for more than 15 years. His material research focuses on reducing reliance on alternative binding agents and substrates to maximise the inherent properties of the materials he works with without putting a strain on other resources.
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the brands of 2022
In 2022, Material Matters showcased a curated mix of over 40 exhibitors to celebrate the importance of materials and their ability to shape our lives. The selection included global brands, makers, designers, manufacturers, and artists working in materials that ranged from recycled aluminium, clay, wood and glass to orange peel, roots and sugar.
B.C. Joshua
- ROOM 13.10
Furniture, Material. room 13.10
B.C. Joshua is a London based (Minneapolis born) designer and a maker exploring the material landscape in a hands on way. His work aims to interrogate and question pre-conceived narratives using a material based approach to the creation of objects. Frequently his work considers the resources around us challenging the notion of ‘waste’ by changing its context entirely. Blake graduated from the Royal College of Art where he received his MA Design Products postgraduate degree.
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the brands of 2022
In 2022, Material Matters showcased a curated mix of over 40 exhibitors to celebrate the importance of materials and their ability to shape our lives. The selection included global brands, makers, designers, manufacturers, and artists working in materials that ranged from recycled aluminium, clay, wood and glass to orange peel, roots and sugar.
circuform
- ROOM 13.13
Furniture. room 13.13
Circuform is a new brand in the furniture sector. Circuform gives industrially designed furniture a circular life. From ‘old legends’ to new kids on the block in Dutch design. With no-nonsense furniture made from recycled materials, long-lasting and fully recyclable, Circuform are making a positive contribution to a sustainable world. A world in which they minimise the use of expensive new raw materials and maximise reuse. Their furniture is designed for office, healthcare, education, hospitality and home use.
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the brands of 2022
In 2022, Material Matters showcased a curated mix of over 40 exhibitors to celebrate the importance of materials and their ability to shape our lives. The selection included global brands, makers, designers, manufacturers, and artists working in materials that ranged from recycled aluminium, clay, wood and glass to orange peel, roots and sugar.
crafting plastics! studio
- ROOM 2.1b
Product, Material design. room 2.1b
crafting plastics! studio is an award winning circular design and research studio based in Bratislava and Berlin, founded by Vlasta Kubušová and Miroslav Král in 2016. The studio has been exploring sustainable, transparent production processes in response to the ongoing issues of climate crises driven by mass consumption and the steep use of renewable resources. By combining science and design, cp!s revolutionizes properties, aesthetics, and values of perishable material - natural bioplastics, and offers solutions for closed-loop systems in various fields. They define the entire material's cycle, from unrefined matter to final product until its decomposition in natural C02, water and nutrients.
NUATAN by cp!s is an ecological alternative to synthetic plastic. It is a brand for bioplastic solutions for value-added products using 100% biobased and biodegradable biopolymer blends.
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