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  • 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...
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  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Pure Culture

    Philip Ross is an inspiring american artist that works with living organisms as means of his artistic work. In a very controlled environment, Ross manipulates, nurtures and transforms a variety of...

  • Mushroom Dinner

    An experimental evening to taste the flavors of delicious dutch mushrooms....

    Here some pictures and a video documenting a lovely dinner where mushrooms took different forms and taste. Our biggest pride is certainly the home-made mushroom pasta. Not only the pasta slice ended...

  • Matango

    The Vegetable Monster; The Fungus of Terror!

    An amazing Japanese movie from 1963, also called the Attack of the Mushroom People. Over the years, this movie has apparently developed something of a cult audience mainly in the Japanese-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...

  • Checking the quality of the Big Printer

    General knowledge and Solving issues of the HP Designjet Z 2100

    If your prints look 'stripy' or uneven, you have to check the print heads. Other very useful information is included in this article as well.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • I love mushrooms

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

  • Runaway van Kanye West

    Vanessa Beecroft als het geheim wapen van een nieuwe regisseur

    Eigenlijk is Kanye Wests videoclip "Runaway" vooral sterk in alles wat er niet te zien is. Kanye is de regisseur, tegelijk de hoofdrolspeler en zo meer, maar let op, bij de aftiteling staat...

  • 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...

  • Kunstformen For Sale!

    Haeckel posters and shirts available

    Brighten up your walls and wardrobe with Kunstformen Der Natur from German biologist Ernst Haeckel. From Radiolaria to jellyfish, in black and white or brightly colored. All 100 large scale posters...

  • 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...

  • Fluorescent Nature

    Seven new mushroom species glowing in the dark!

    Mycologists estimate there are hundreds of species still not identified. And the mystery and fascination hiding behind mushrooms are unlimited. These newly discovered glowing toadstools might help...

  • 6 ways Mushrooms can save the World

    Paul Stamets amazing speech at the TED conference

    Growing mushroom might be the best thing we can do to save the environment. In this inspiring speech, Paul Stamets briefly explain his work and research on mushroom, or better mycelium and his...

  • Fungal Futures

    Exhibition at Utrecht University

    Oude Hortus, Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht | March 24 - May 16 2016 A collaborative project between Utrecht University, Officina Corpuscoli and Mediamatic.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Bart Ellenbroek

    Today was a good week

    My experiences during my first week at Mediamatic

    I became very fascinated by bio-design and -materials, so i decided i wanted to do an internship where i could learn more about it. I am especially interested in mycelium based materials. After doing...

  • 37 Pavilions

    First ‘user generated’ biennale

    Here we have collected the proposals for the city pavilions in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 that were sent to us by the curators. We also show what each pavilion looks like after it was built. Find...

  • 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

  • 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

  • Beauty Parlour

    In the Spring of 2008 almost every Thursday evening was dedicated to public research meetings called Beauty Parlours...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Bart Ellenbroek

    Geodesic dome research

    Testing sizes, entrance and connectors.

    Here is a first look intro the research and testing process of the mycelium geodesic dome project.

  • Carpenters

    Dev Camp Day 3

    Camilo and Thjeu are essential in making the projects work. They brought their own tools and are building the (wooden) frames to house the installations.

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