Spreading the word of excellent work of Mette Bak Andersen and Petz Scholtus in the D·I·A postgraduate course, I post one of her latest news [+info]:

[ Last week we finished another workshop ,at ELISAVA Design School in Barcelona. This time, the participants were Master students whereas at Krabbesholm School in Denmark we had the pleasure to work with foundation students.
The materials changed quite a lot too. This time around, students came packed with cork, biodegradable packaging material, metal strips from construction, Magnolia leaves, substrate from the beach and even human hair!
The workshop at ELISAVA offered 1001 possibilities to explore those materials and transform them into new ones. Who would have known leaves stitched together form a funky-looking bag, human hair mixed with glue and knotted makes a strong and beautiful cord, cork dices coated with latex in a mould form swim-armbands for kids and shredded pieces of packaging plastic ironed around a mould melt together into a lampshade.
Thanks to the DIA team for incorporating our workshop into your Master course. We really enjoyed working with you.
For more information about the Materialise workshops, click here. ]

(via http://materialiseme.blogspot.com/ )

As winter’s cold creeps in, we all revel in the little things to keep cozy. The Natural Wave is ceramic plate that fits over an old school radiator. The heated plate keeps your drinks and snacks warm without having to use additional power and energy like a microwave or oven. Pretty ingenious and if anything, it makes those old rusty radiators look a lot better.

Designer: Byung-seok You

animi causa is an israeli design manufacturer based in tel aviv. they produce a number of modern furniture pieces that includes the ‘feel’ seating system. the piece is made from interconnected softballs that can be arranged in a variety of different seating and lying positions.