Dear all – hereby my best wishes for 2010! Hope the new year brings a lot of new developments in the world of materials to make our daily lives more creative, smart and sustainable.
January kicks off with Material Xperience 2010, one of the most important materials events in the Netherlands. I will be lecturing on Thursday January 27th about the future of materials. Curious? Get your free entry tickets here.
To get you started, please see my top 3 selection (below) of upcoming materials events. Enjoy and get yourself inspired!
27-29 January 2010 (Rotterdam)
Material Xperience 2010
Material Xperience is the event with material innovations for architects, interior architects and other creative professionals.
Link: www.materialexperience.nl
13-15 April (Paris)
JEC Composites Show 2010
The biggest composites exhibition in Europe!
Link: www.jeccomposites.com
19-23 April (Hannover)
Material Trends 2010
The material TRENDS exhibition 2010 is a special show presenting innovative materials, products and processes (including iF Design’s award winners) during the Hanover Fair.
Link: www.hannovermesse.de/materialtrends_e
Categories: events · exhibitions
Tagged: 2010, happy new year, jec composites, material trends, material xperience
Aging. Objects becoming more beautiful over time; Jasper Morrison about Super Normal and Naoto Fukasawa about “Shutaku”. Eternally Yours and giving products a longer lifetime; Destroying Saving letterforms with patina; Universal Design and age as economic factor; Look inside Material Short Stories; New materials competitions and “Repairing is the new recycling!”
Download the Get Inspired #03 – AGING newsletter now!
Categories: newsletter
Tagged: aging, get inspired, newsletter
20 October, 2009 · 1 Comment
Material Matters is hosting three materials lectures during this year’s Dutch Design Week. Together with Els Zijlstra (Materia) and Karin van Beurden (Saxion University), Aart will be lecturing about visions of the future of materials in design.
Saturday October 24, the lectures are English spoken, topics are “Biomimicy” and “Materials Utopia” . To reserve your seat, please send an e-mail to info@materialmatters.nl
Material Matters is an Eindhoven based materials platform for designers, architects, product developers. In collaboration with Materia, Material Matters presents a collection of 350 inspiring materials during the Dutch Design Week 2009.
You can download the invitation (pdf) here, or directly see the Dutch Design Week program.
Categories: events
Tagged: Dutch Design Week 2009, lecture, Material Matters, Materials Utopia
Impressions from team 529 this year’s MOPO Staffellauf
What are five exhausted people doing at a materials website? Well, at this year’s MOPO staffellauf fanatics from Laurich & Kollegen, PARK, and Material Stories joined their forces to do a 5 x 5000 meter relay run for the charity organization Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli.
Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli is a charity organisation located in St. Pauli campaigning for clean drinking water worldwide. “Materials Aart” strongly supports their motto “Water is Life!” - claiming for more awareness for the elementary role of water in the daily lives of people from all over the world where drinking water is not to be taken for granted.
Earlier, Material Stories supported Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli by raising money during the Material & Identity exhibition. With this sportive contribution and blog post Aart hopes to create more awareness and online donations for this charity organization.
P.s. Curious about our score? Check our score here: MOPO Staffellauf results 2009 (pdf)
Categories: competitions
Tagged: hamburg, mopo staffellauf, viva con agua, water
Dear readers,
Now online, the second Get Inspired newsletter issue on POWER. Full of websites, books, resources, … all about materials in design! Download your free copy here:
Download: Get Inspired #02 – POWER
Enjoy reading, and enjoy your summer!
- Aart
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Tagged: get inspired, newsletter, power
