The new CHEMARTS Cookbook from designers and scientists at Aalto University offers readers experiments to create and work with plant-based materials.

From Self-Healing Concrete to Bioengineered Plastics: The Next Wave of Design Materials. Learn More!

Biomaterials have been selected as Material of the Year, and will be on display at a dedicated exhibition.

With its oddly rustic design aesthetic, Sebastian Cox's Mycelium pendant lamps aren't made... they're grown. Mycelium, or the vegetative part of a mushroom, has found itself in the limelight for being a cheap, sustainable, and vegan alternative to suede and leather. If treated correctly, it looks and feels just like leather, offering a cruelty-free and

The northern region of India is home to the pine trees, that's where the Cheer Project by Gaurav Wali has

NaturLoop has developed Cocoboard their first bio-based material made from agricultural byproducts and natural adhesives.

This cookbook refigures materials and methods for radically remaking the historically dominant petrochemically derived plastic materials that we use in our everyday lives.

Commissioned by Heineken, Madrid-based designer Omayra Maymó has created Malta I - a pedestal apty made with barley waste from the beer-brewing process.