Biomaterials design

Designers should stop using recycled plastic and instead use bioplastics made from raw materials such as algae if they want to reduce pollution, according to Istanbul Design Biennial curator Jan Boelen.

The new CHEMARTS Cookbook from designers and scientists at Aalto University offers readers experiments to create and work with plant-based materials.

Sarah Garrison on Instagram: “This wallet is made of bioleather! 🌿 I made this bioleather from SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast) which grows during the…”

Studio Lionne van Deursen has showcased its Unfold designs, made from a material created by living microorganisms, at Milan Design Week.

Dutch designers show solutions for a more sustainable future in Channelling Change: Inside A Designer's Brain, as part of VDF x Ventura Projects.

This cookbook refigures materials and methods for radically remaking the historically dominant petrochemically derived plastic materials that we use in our everyday lives.

Biotic - BIOTIC is an ongoing research project to the po

The artist sheds new, beautiful light on bioplastics - an often abstract and underused organic material - from her Melbourne studio.

Our second open source book on Bioplastics, this time the bioplastic cook book gives everyone tips and recipes to make their own bioplastics! The book contains a flyer to print for labeling your bioplastic and creating your material archive. Book written by Margaret Dunne during her internship at Fab Textiles June-July 2018