Swedish designer and artist Niclas Ekwall recently exhibited his project “The Resonance of Play“ as a part of the Graduation Show during Dutch Design Week, and this coming summer he will be showing his work during the design week in Milan. We had a talk with Niclas about his approach to design and his relationship to sound and music.
Read MorePotatoes are made up of starches and fiber components that are able to bond with each other and harden which makes them a versatile starting point for different materials.
Read MoreThe annual Graduation Show by Design Academy Eindhoven is one of the most visited venues during the Dutch Design Week, and this year it was located at the Beursgebouw in the center of Eindhoven. Maren Bang from the Elementa team was present, and has gathered some favorites from this years edition.
Read MoreIn the work of Norwegian designer and artist Nebil Zaman, objects found in digital space are materialized and turned into unusual furniture and objects - sometimes with an almost otherworldly touch. We have met Nebil at his space at the Kroloftet makers space in Oslo to learn more about his work with found objects - digital and physical.
Read MoreLoved dearly by many, misunderstood and feared by some - hemp carries a lot of cultural associations, most of which have little to do with its potential as a sustainable material in product design and architecture.
Hailed by enthusiasts as a potential ally in changing the way we make objects and buildings, many designers and scientists are researching new uses of hemp with interesting results.
Read MoreThe French ceramic artist Lorraine Legrand has spent the last years venturing deeply into the formal and artistic possibilities of clay. In her BREAD project, she takes on the adjacent art of making bread with the eye and hand of a ceramicist.
For Lorraine bread-making becomes a reflection about the basic sanity inherent in our most ancient crafts, and a search for an antidote to the neurotic relationship most of us have to modern food industry.
Read MoreEggshell is one of the small wonders of nature and a biodegradable material with interesting properties. While used to some extent in agriculture, a lot of eggshell is scrapped as waste. The last couple of years several designers and researchers have looked into how eggshell can be used as component in materials for use in consumer products and objects and surfaces for use in interior design.
Read MoreWhat can be found in the spaces in between the beautiful and the ugly, feminine and masculine? How can dragqueen culture inform and expand design thinking?
Maren Bang of the Elementa blog meets the Uruguayan designer and artist Bruno Baietto.
Read MoreIn the midst of the pandemic the communal coworking initiative Kroloftet has taken over an industrial complex formerly used as as a biker gang hideout - and turned it into a thriving hub of creative and social activity.
We have spoken to designer Oscar Honeyman-Novotny, one of the driving forces behind Kroloftet about maker spaces and design as a force of cultural change.
Read MoreElementa is presently working with biologists and designers to develop a range of modular products that can help to open architecture and outdoor areas for co-habitation with other species.
Read MoreWe have entered a reality that is larger than the language we have to describe it. During the late summer of 2020, The Molecular Ballet and Ny Høvik Ballet helped transform the sculpture park at Henie Onstad into a laboratory of hieroglyphic dance.
Read MorePlasticiet is a Rotterdam based startup that has found a way to upcycle plastic waste into long living new materials for use in interior design. We have chatted with the founders of Plasticiet about recycling and the role of small companies in closing the loops.
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