Pretty Plastic, a young Dutch company, designs unique and sophisticated tiles that are easy on the eye. The best bit? They’re made from 100% recycled PVC building materials such as window frames, down...
Zero waves, zero emissions, zero noise — that was Alain Thébault’s vision when he first invented the Sea Bubble back in 2017. This small electric water taxi is “somewhere between a car, a boat and a p...
Dutch company Fairphone was the first brand to market eco-friendly smartphones. Now, it has just launched Fairbuds XL, a sustainable, modular and repairable pair of headphones....
At a time when over 2 billion people across the globe have no access to drinking water, two friends have developed an ingenious solution that uses solar energy to transform any source of water into sa...
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Design and Icons
Plastic objects, whether they are recent or firmly-established cult objects,
have revolutionised the world of design, changed habits and left their mark on our
daily lives for several generations
Icons
The Valentine typewriter, a Pop-Art icon
It may not have been the commercial success hoped for when it was first released, but today it remains one of the greatest icons of industrial design. As a highly sought-after collector’s item, the li...
Aircraft manufacturers are increasingly using composite materials and polymers within aircraft structures. These materials undeniably owe their success to being lightweight; however, they also possess...
We spoke to Philippe Gressier, Sales Director of compounder Benvic, and Léna Defontaine, materials engineer in charge of the design and development of thermoplastic laminated textiles at Decathlon....
To say that plastics used in vehicles are only used to make them lighter underestimates their role … Polymers also contribute to the safety of motorists and other road users....
Today’s farmers shoulder the responsibility of feeding 8 billion people. Faced with demanding environmental safeguards, particularly in Europe, the agricultural world must find green solutions for its...
Polymers have been used for thousands of years... but it was not until the dawn of the 20th century that the first synthetic polymer appeared. This is a long story, and it is far from over, since poly...
An interview with Guillermo Martínez Gauna-Vivas, founder of Ayúdame3D, a Spanish NGO that makes PLA-printed prostheses for the most deprived countries....
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