#trendtablet

[material--matters]

[visionade]

[tendenciasynuevoslenguajes]

Trend Tablet (página en inglés) es un referente mundial para tendencias en diseño. Creado por la respetada trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort acá encontrarán recuentos que incluyen diseñadores emergentes y más establecidos siempre asociados a una o varias tendencias identificadas por el estudio.

[yosoyloqueveo]

Algae Water Bottle |  Ari Jonsson

Trend Tablet -  GOOD NEWS: A 100 per cent natural alternative to the plastic water bottle.

To make the product, Iceland Academy of Arts’ product design student Ari Jónsson used a powdered byproduct of algae called agar and combined it with water to form a jelly-like substance. The substance is then heated and decanted into a bottle-shaped mould where it chills in icy water before it solidifies in a refrigerator for a few minutes. Once set, the jelly can be removed from the mould as a solid water bottle. The biodegradable bottle retains its shape while it is filled with water but slowly starts to decompose when it is empty. Because the bottle is 100 per cent natural, users could even nibble on the leftover vessel if they like its gelatinous taste. Apparently agar is often used as a substitute for gelatine in vegetarian or vegan desserts.

“I feel there is an urgent need to find ways to replace some of the unreal amount of plastic we make, use, and throw away every day,” says Jónsson. “Why are we using materials that take hundreds of years to break down in nature to drink from once and then throw away?” he adds.

[dimanke]

Eyes as Big as Plates # Hallvar © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen

[tales-of-fashion-sabi]

Neon is cool again! My "Up In Lights" article and interview with @kemplondon up on @trendtablet LINK: www.trendtablet.com/4993-collages/ #trendtablet #neonart #neon #neonlights #trends #trending #upinlights #kemp #mysabi

[pxssagat]

“We enter a moment in existence when once again we turn to natural history for understanding, drawn to the vanitas in still life, to the collecting of natural wonders and strange relics for the cabinet of curiosities; to the bone and the shell,the fossil and the seed-pod, the tooth and the nail. We wield the power of objects, and the arrangement and display of objects, to tell a visceral story of life and death, to reconcile unknowns, to attempt a new to decipher for ourselves the astonishing mystery of the universe. ..Like the explorers of earlier centuries, we are poised upon the precipice of a new world. Whether we perceive this as a new world of our own making, with consequences we only now begin to glimpse, or as a new world to colonize in space, or as the rapidly expanding nano-world of scientific investigation, or as all of these and more, we sense that all is about to change.”

Michelle Anderson-Binczak

[blogbloeme]

Gorgeous handcrafted usable table-/ kitchenwear 

by Amba Molly, ATLAS via trendtablet