Earlier this year we shared the fabulous FabBrick, a company dedicated to tackling the waste and pollution of two of the world’s largest manufacturing sectors – construction and fashion. But they aren’t the only ones focusing on fabric to find new ways to recycle. Design and interior architecture agency Premices and co launched their recycled fibre collection in 2021 after 8 years of research and … Continue reading Pierreplume
Offering a modern perspective on a historic material, Italian research hub Terraformæ seeks to push the boundaries of terracotta to produce fresh surface solutions full of organic charm. One of these surface solutions blends two timeless favourites – terrazzo and terracotta. Designed by Sveva Bizzotto, Terraformæ’s Crumbles utilises production scraps, such as glass and cryolite, to form the freckling flecks that give it its terrazzo-like … Continue reading Creating Crumbles
We’ve collected all the recycled plastic tiles here, and all the unusual reclaimed material surfaces we know of here, and now we’ve combined the two with a collection of five tiles made from a whole host of waste materials. 1. Silicastone from Alusid Using 98% minimum of glass, ceramics and mineral waste, Silicastone from Alusid form tiles and all manner of surfaces. The random waste … Continue reading Five tiles made from reclaimed materials
Encouraging community with their Buy Back Program and creating unique products from inevitable waste, skater craftsmen in the USA are filling a fine niche. Deckstool, founded by brothers Jason and Adam Podlaski, takes used and broken skateboards and gives them a whole new life. With their Broken Skateboard Buy Back Program the company ensures a steady supply of materials whilst partnering with skate shops and … Continue reading Skate or Design
Today we bring you another artist with keen tiling senses. With a mind full of lively creativity and an artistic bent, it is the art of cuerda seca that Laura Drifford now seeks to master. Most materials used in the creation of Drifford’s work are recycled, including tiles and reclaimed wood. Using these unloved, wasted items give them a new decorative role, becoming unique items … Continue reading Cie La Maleta
Inspired by a poem from 11th Century Japanese poet Gyokuran, Sensitile founder Abhinand Lath took to design to produce a unique representation of the light and shadow created in bamboo forests. The aim was to create a system of channels which bend and disperse ambient or LED light and form a material that interacted with its surroundings. During his time at the University of Michigan … Continue reading Sparkling Sensitile
