Constructed like LEGO, these modular shoes are made entirely from compostable materials!
You either already own a lot of shoes or you regularly buy a lot of new pairs of shoes. I fall in the latter category….
Textile
Using banana peels as a sustainable building material, you can now make everything from eyeglasses to watch straps!
Along with apples, bananas are the most popular fruits in the world. More than 100 billion bananas are eaten every year, with most of us…
In collaboration with Adobe, this watch design uses CGI to highlight the textures of crystals and landscapes!
The texture of wearable designs, like watches, has the ability to grab our attention before we even fully understand the design in the first place….
Made from upcycled polypropylene packaging, a fashion designer & creative director designed a winter jacket for dogs!
While I’m subscribed to a newsletter that sends out lists of dogs available for adoption, I’m unfortunately still puppy-less. That being said, if I did…
This A-frame, cantilever cabin comes wrapped in a mesh that makes it glow in the dark come nighttime
Like a lantern in the night, La Invernada glows underneath the canopies of a forest in Curicó, Chile. The small, cantilever cabin, built for weekend…
This nano-coated textile air purifier beats like a heart to show the air quality in your home
Surges in design innovation happen with new developments in technology and science – transforming tired and traditional, albeit reliable, designs into timely, artful, and well-defined…
This Modular Furniture design pays homage to the Centennial Anniversary of Bauhaus School of Design
Bauhaus style is one of the most widely received and highly versatile modes of furniture design in circulation today. People around the world take such…
This 100% biodegradable packaging material is made from brewers’ spent grain!
I am still learning about sustainable materials and how that ties in with creating a circular economy. A circular economy is a system of closed…
Vollebak’s 100% biodegradable plant+pomegranate hoodie can be composted in your backyard!
Vollebak continues to push the limits every time on how innovative, functional, and sustainable their designs can be while I push the limits on why…
If you know how to code, you know how to embroider
Andrea Mayr-Stalder’s TurtleStitch project literally takes lines of code and transforms them into art you can wear. The innovative machine allows you to programme its…
Buttons from the future don’t need sewing on
Think ‘zip-tie for buttons’ and you’ll get the brainwave that is the FastButton. Designed to be an easy, effective, and needle-free solution for a popped…
GPS-enabled shoelaces. Yay or Nay?
Any privacy-intruding piece of technology can be pretty controversial because it can be used for good as well as bad (take the entire Facebook clusterf***…