There are many ways mycelium add wonder to our lives – by offering magic to a woodland walks or secretly carrying nutrients throughout our veg gardens, but mycelium have much more to offer beyond the obvious. We’ve already taken a look at compostable packaging made of the mushroom root structures, and geometrically informed designs using building blocks made from mycelium, and today we add a … Continue reading Muting Mycelium
After the last ChatGPT post I decided to see if the robots could come up with any good tile ideas, not that tiles that look and act like toilets isn’t a great idea of course. I gave it the prompt to “create five unique tile collection names” and then to describe each of those collections. I then asked various image generating AIs to create some … Continue reading I asked ChatGPT to create a tile collection
When I was young and first learning about how energy was generated, we were taught the importance of renewables and creating electricity from resources that could be used without being used up. So I wracked my little brain to come up with something new that could be added to the tiny graphics on our worksheets. What was there a lot of? The sea was taken, … Continue reading Welcome to the Pavegeneration
Futuristic, forward-thinking, and fountains of fun, Dutch architectural design company Studio RAP is leading the technological revolution. And they’re doing it in undeniable style. Mixing architects, designers, roboticists, programmers, and researchers, Studio RAP’s team is working to elevate and evolve the building process from design to development by creating innovative technologies, robots, and systems that push boundries. Luckily for us, many of their projects and … Continue reading The future is here
OG Weird & Wonderful tile creators Moving Color have a huge range of reactive surfaces. Each piece is sensitive to heat, changing colour depending on the temperature of their surroundings. The seven ranges – Touch Sensitive, Tie Dye, Watercolour, Aurora, Organic Line, Liquid Line, and Northern Lights – each offer their own colour spectrum starting and transforming into a variety of shades. Northern Lights are … Continue reading These tiles change colour while you shower
Waste-made tiles are always a delight, and these creations by Norwegian studio Snøhetta is no exception. These prototypes crafted in collaboration with Italian manufacturers Fornace Brioni and Belgian designers Studio Plastique have found a new potential home for materials rarey recycled. Microwave and oven glass and glass from electronic goods are widely regarded as unrecycleable due to their varied compositions, treatments, and finishes. But rather … Continue reading Tiles made from microwaves
Founded in 2015 by Daria Biryukova, Studio Mixtura works with industries and organizations to create and design functional and benficial solutions to waste produced in manufacturing. With deep research into materials and processes for recycling, Biryukova is working to minimise pollution and maximise the life of items created, used, and wasted during production. Luckily for us, many of these recycled materials have found a new … Continue reading Studio Mixtura
The textures of tile come in many shapes, sizes, depths, and designs, some made by machine, some by hand, and some by chance and fire. No matter how the texture is made, it’s almost impossible to do anything but love it and want to touch it. To celebrate these varied reliefs we’ve gathered a small sample of diverse textured delights from all around the tiling … Continue reading Four Tremendous Tactile Textures
We’re stretching the tile boundary a little bit with this one, but it’s so wonderfully weird and marvellously magical that we can’t help but share. With big dreams and a fabulously fungi-filled vision of the future, Ecovative Design is leading the charge towards a sustainable world. Taking aim at two of the biggest polluters on the planet – plastics and animal agriculture – Ecovative Design … Continue reading Mushroom Materials
Sometimes tile is more than just a beautiful surface for your bathroom or kitchen. Innovative minds have created multi-functional, practical, and inspiring tiles that offer so much more than aesthetics. 1. Cabin of 3D Printed Curiosities Designed and created by architecture and design professors Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, this small cabin explores the limits of 3D printed tiles. Using local materials (including the … Continue reading When tile is more than tile
Just under two years ago we covered the innovative living sea wall made in a collaboration between Reef Design Lab, SIMS (Sydney Institute of Marine Science), the North Sydney Council, and Volvo where fifty hexagonal tiles were placed in an effort to help overcome the habitat loss caused by the removal of mangrove swamps along the coast. Now a similar approach is being taken to … Continue reading Reef Revival
Claimed to be the first ceramic press in the world without a mould: Superfast can to produce, in a simple, flexible and rapid manner, all formats of porcelain stoneware starting from 600, 800, and 900mm modules in thicknesses from 3 to 30mm Continue reading Mouldless Milestone
Edimax Astor Ceramiche has introduced a new piece of technology resulting from their keen focus on research and innovation. To further their accomplishments in the ceramic sector, 3D Shaped Technology provides even more realism to their surfaces, adding texture and life to create products with realism. The final results are collections inspired by natural stones, with visual texture, and a matching tactile surface that is … Continue reading Authentic Edimax
Flaviker will be pushing back the frontiers of porcelain at Cersaie 2018, with new 12mm thick panels and its new Bath Design project. At Cersaie 2018, Flaviker will not only present the material inspirations behind the new collection but also propose more versatile and creative applications of large-size tiles in the world of furniture and bathrooms. Continue reading Dawning Diversification
Raimondi’s Roboslab system allows users to lift (from a case/pallet or an A-frame) panels of any size and up to 200 Kg in weight; and then position them accurately, on both floors and walls, prior to final installation. Continue reading Slab Solution
