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  • Growing Jewelry

    Have you ever thought you might find mycelium around your neck!?

    Mycelium Pendant is a jewellery piece developed by Australian-based designer Elliat Rich . Her work is focused on finding sustainable design solution that emphasize the "poetry of humble pleasure".

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  • Grow your clothing

    Bio-Couture : bacterial-cellulose textile is the fashion of the future

    What could be a more sustainable way of dressing up than growing your own cloths made from a totally organic material? This is the aim of an interesting experimental project called Bio-Couture...

  • The Esthetic of Microscopical Science

    Are Moulds, Mushrooms and Parasites really so disgusting and unaesthetic as some people think? Let's give it a closer look...

    We already saw on this blog some interesting examples of artists and designers getting particularly inspired by these microscopical fascinating organisms. Why is that, then? Is this microcosm really...

  • The mycelium inspiration

    On the website Everyone Forever has published the work of Ryan Alexander a graphic designer working, at least in this series, with the programming open source Processing

  • Old Information Barbara Revelli

    Sustainable materials

    Every first Tuesday of the month, few Amsterdam based organizations organize a meeting about sustainability. Every time a different aspect of theme of this matter are discussed by a small but...

  • Mushroom Design

    A miscellaneous products collection

    How many objects have been designed with a clear reference to mushrooms? This is has been collected until now. If you have more, add it to the bucket and we'll share the pleasure.

  • Moulds growing on fashion

    In 1997 Belgium fashion designer Martin Margiela produced his first solo exhibition, 9/4/1615 at the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum of Rotterdam. In collaboration with a microbiologist, Margiela...

  • Where Art meets Life Sciences

    Friday evening I attended a lecture organized by the Waag Society and hosted by Artis in the beautiful Flamingo room. Adam Zaretsky is a bio-artist and since years is working on the ethical and...

  • Garden furniture or a garden in your furniture?

    8 Extraordinary Greens and FurniBloom

    An artist and an architect are combining gardening and furniture design in very unexpected ways.

  • I love mushrooms

    Published on the blog, FFFFOUND! , is this interesting graphic work

  • Growing a building out of living mushrooms

    Interesting info from the blog Stataspore

    In the Echo Park neighborhood of L.A. there's a unique non-profit community called Machine Project investigating art, technology, natural history, science, music, literature, and food. American...

  • Explosive advertisement

    Nuclear mushrooms are inspiring creative graphic design

    "An unwashed vegetable can become a deadly weapon" is the slogan used for this campaign of Elder developed by the advertising agency AW Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi in Caracas. Playing a bit more with...

  • Still Growing

    Living art of Dutch artist Zeger Reyers

    In 2007, Stroom Den Haag published a special edition about the dutch artist Zeger Reyers from the eyes of five established writers: Nell Donkers, Roland Groenenboom, Vincent Honoré, Philip Peters

  • Everything is going to be alright

    Another piece for our Mushroom Design collection

    Italian designer Emmanuel Babled is exhibiting in these days his new collection in Zurich where we can find a couple of new objects for our Mushroom Collection. In particular, designboom highlight...

  • Mushrooms are taking over the Dutch media

    “Scientists, designers and dreamers are working on a revolution”.

    For the last couple of months Motherboard, the technological arm of Vice have been on board to interview designers, scientists and mycelium experts about their work with fungi. The result is...

  • Fungi Mutarium

    A prototype for turning plastic into edible fungi

    The mycelium of some fungi is capable of growing on and even digesting plastics. This fact triggered Katharina Unger and Julia Kaisinger from Livin Studio to start the research and design project...

  • Pop-Up Cafe

    The Last Sweat Party in the Pop-Up basement

    The Pop-Up Café is a temporary exhibition that will take place from June 6 until August 2 at Meneer de Wit Gallery in Amsterdam. Created by Eline Mul and Karolien Buurman, it's a place that looks and...

  • Waste As Resource

    An interview with Jonas Edvard

    Jonas Edvard's fascination with waste as resource resulted in his graduation project using mushrooms for upcycling. The MYX lamp is made from textile fiber leftover injected with Oyster Mushroom...

  • Building with Living Materials

    Architectural design with biology programme at Mediamatic

    In 2014 Mediamatic started to develop a new program that combines architecture with living materials in experimental ways. Living materials cannot only be more ecological, they offer very exiting new...

  • Eco-Pod

    Temporary vertical algae bio‐reactor

    Eco‐Pod made by prefabricated modules. The pods will serve as bio‐fuel sources and as micro‐incubators for flexible research and development programs.

  • Growing the first panels

    The success and strife of convincing mushrooms to grow on waste.

  • Sur Place

    Exhibition on Urban Bike Culture

    Bring your bike for a ride through Mediamatic Bank and discover the rich culture that grew around a simple vehicle: the fixed gear bike. Sportsmen, riders, messengers, collectors, artists and other...

  • Slime Mold Computing

    Gathering intelligence from brain-less organisms

    Physarum polycephalum, better known as slime mold, is a simple organism that can solve some very complex problems. Slime molds are intelligent enough to find their way towards food through complex...

  • Xylinum

    A stool of spores

    What could future materials and production processes be like?

  • Urban Eden, human error

    Bio-architectural constructions out of moss and seeds

    Allison Kudla's project based on the formation of a living and growing biological material via its collaboration with an engineering mechanism.

created Barbara Revelli modified Deborah M. Kōdō

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