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A roadmap for product design professionals and students to the eight Big Ideas' in material innovation. With more than sixty case studies, Radical Matter showcases the designers and engineers who are disrupting and changing the ways products will be manufactured, distributed and consumed.

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'Important … an optimistic alternative vision of the future' - Aesthetica
'A new vision of the future of materials, design processes and manufacturing practices' - Computer Arts
'An interesting introduction to alternative methods and materials that could replace unsustainable practices in the future' - Creative Review

Table of Contents
1) Today’s Waste, Tomorrow’s Raw Material; 2) Natural Assets; 3) Shit, Hair, Dust; 4) Material Connections; 5) Co-Creation; 6) Designed to Disappear; 7) Living Materials; and 8) Future Mining

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    A Paperback / softback by Kate Franklin, Caroline Till

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      Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
      Publication Date: 04/07/2019
      ISBN13: 9780500295397, 978-0500295397
      ISBN10: 0500295395
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A roadmap for product design professionals and students to the eight Big Ideas' in material innovation. With more than sixty case studies, Radical Matter showcases the designers and engineers who are disrupting and changing the ways products will be manufactured, distributed and consumed.

      Trade Review
      'Important … an optimistic alternative vision of the future' - Aesthetica
      'A new vision of the future of materials, design processes and manufacturing practices' - Computer Arts
      'An interesting introduction to alternative methods and materials that could replace unsustainable practices in the future' - Creative Review

      Table of Contents
      1) Today’s Waste, Tomorrow’s Raw Material; 2) Natural Assets; 3) Shit, Hair, Dust; 4) Material Connections; 5) Co-Creation; 6) Designed to Disappear; 7) Living Materials; and 8) Future Mining

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