Natural Material Studio uses beer waste panels for brewery interior
In Copenhagen, Natural Material Studio has converted spent grain from beer production into indoor design panels for the city’s ÅBEN brewery.
Spent grain—also known...
Designer Mary Lempres creates oyster reefs from plant extracts and crushed shells
In Virginia, designer Mary Lempres has used plant enzymes to produce Reef Rockets, structures made of biobased cement that could mimic naturally occurring oyster...
Record-setting Santa sand sculpture highlights sustainability
In India, noted sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik has sculpted a massive Santa Claus figure using sand and onions. The structure at Blue Flag Beach...
Printer concept would replace costly and polluting inks with your morning coffee grounds
In South Korea, Samsung Electronics product designer Hwan Ju Jeon has created a prototype printer that uses used coffee grounds as ink.
While soy-based...
Logistics issues force on-the-fly cardboard furniture project by Zaventem Ateliers
In Mexico, design collective Zaventem Ateliers showed that necessity is truly the mother of invention when customs delays meant it had to recreate most...
Connor Rusnak’s cork wifi router aims to make e-waste and eyesores a thing of...
In Ohio, industrial designer Connor Rusnak has developed an eye-pleasing wifi router prototype using cork as a casing material.
Dubbed Pella, Rusnak tells Yanko...
Pope using wheelchair featuring wood from Notre Dame
In Vatican City, Pope Francis is solving his mobility issues with a religiously tricked-out wooden wheelchair.
Designed by Paul de Livron, the Apollo Wooden...
Proservation perfecting Styrofoam replacement from grain husk and chaff
In Germany, a company called Proservation has developed a molded packaging product from grain cultivation waste that could replace Styrofoam. Called Recou, the impact-resistant...
Keurig unveils plant-based coating that will replace its ubiquitous K cup pods
In Massachusetts, Keurig Dr Pepper has unveiled a more sustainable vision for the future of single-serve coffee pods, which have boomed in popularity thanks...
Lush cosmetics swaps polluting packaging peanuts for edible puffs
In the United Kingdom, a cosmetics retailer credited with popularizing colorful “bath bombs” and unique soaps is using 100% edible packing peanuts instead of...