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White blocks of concrete-like material stacked in a pile
Interview
Architectures of Wellness Healthy Materials Lab on our Material Future
Project
How the Wisdom of Coral Reefs are Inspiring Biodiversity
Five pouches in off-white, pinks, and merlots sit in a row. Out of focus in front of the pouches of wine are empty wine glasses.
Essay
Re-Designing the Wine Bottle for an Eco-Future
Interview
Materializing a BioFabricated Future Inside Biofabricate Summit 2022
Project
Unboxing Sustainable Packaging with Goods Index A Norwegian Design Studio Creates A New Resource for Packaging Designers
Product
Public School NY’s New “Bio-Leather” Sneakers Are Brewed like Kombucha
From Fish Waste to Bioplastic, MarinaTex Wins James Dyson Award 2019
How Headspace Sensory is building a scent-based lexicon for the cannabis industry
The Science, Folklore and Joy of Eating with One’s Hands
Transforming Food Waste into Textiles with Agraloop
Material Futures: Mining Food Waste in the Anthropocene
Closing the Loop: How Might We Design for Circularity?
Apeel is Fighting Food Waste with Food Waste
On Food Waste as a Resource for the Future, MOLD Magazine Issue 03 Editor’s Note
Seaweed Sneakers Can Diversify Revenue Streams for Ocean Farmers
The Next Great Revolution in Wellness Will be Fungal
Thalis and metal tableware have been used since the Indus Valley Civilisation, dating back to 3500–2500 BCE. Photo by Corey Olsen for MOLD Magazine.
Materials Matter: Forging the Future of the Steel Thali
Gut Feelings: Harnessing the Mind-Altering Power of Microbes
Sweden’s Beer-Pizza Collaboration Gives New Life to Brewery’s Spent Grain
How a Zero Food Waste Initiative is Adding to the Triple Bottom Line of this Specialty Food Distributor
From Beer to Beach, DB Breweries Upcycles Beer Bottles to Sand
Could Mushrooms be the Next Sugar Substitute?
Pineapple Leather is a Sweet Alternative to the Norm
Taste Without Waste
Yesterday’s Meat Tomorrow: The De-Extinction Deli To Go at the V+A
Plant Bones Grow Meat Even a Vegan Could Love
The Digestive Car: Could a Cow Stomach Hold the Future of Sustainable Automobiles?
For Your Next Barbecue, Try Cobalt 60 Sauce For A Taste of Radiation
What France’s Ban on Supermarket Food Waste Means for Food Design
Stockholm Design Week 2015: More Mushroom Material
Stockholm Design Week 2015: Gelifoam Candy Resin
This Moment in Seaweed: A Deep Dive into Ocean Farms, 3D Printing and Terroir
Making Gorgeous Textiles from Microalgae with Award-Winning Design Project, Algaemy
Ford and Heinz Partner to Make Bioplastics from Tomatoes
The New 100% Biodegradable Plastic Alternative That’s Made From Shrimp
Watch How the MoMA PS.1 Summer Pavilion’s Amazing, 100% Compostable Bio Bricks are Made
Are Mushrooms the Next Great Building Material?
Crabby Plastics: Jeongwon Ji’s BioElectric Chitin Polymer Bio-Plastics