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MaterialDriven regularly partners and collaborates with companies who share its values and goals for material innovation. The following are research, manufacturing and design entities that the company partners with or in some cases, represents.
Currently celebrating 70 years of facilitating scientific innovation, Goodfellow is a leading global supplier of metals, alloys, ceramics, glasses, polymers, compounds, composites and other materials to meet the research, development and specialist production requirements of science and industry. The company has an extensive range of 70,000 catalogue products in multiple forms available off the shelf, most subject to free delivery within 48 hours and with no minimum order quantities.
MaterialDriven works with Goodfellow on its communications campaigns to the design community, particularly suppporting their invaluable database, the Goodfellow Materials Hub.
rat[LAB] - Research in Architecture & Technology, is an independent research organization and network of designers and researchers specializing in computational design or similar technology-related domains.
MaterialDriven partners with rat[LAB] on the organization of specialized educational workshops and training for design professionals.
Giles Miller Studio believes in enriching the way we experience our surroundings. They create innovative surfaces, architecture and sculpture. In each discipline the studio brings new meaning to spaces by celebrating the relationship between materials and light.
They have created acclaimed and award-winning work for some of the world’s most prestigious brand-names across a variety of industries. The scope and scale of the studio’s work ranges from miniature individual components to artworks the size of buildings.
MaterialDriven currently represents Giles Miller Studio in the South and Central United States. Contact us if you would like to specify their work in this region.
Foresso is a new composite sheet material composed of timber, wood waste from sawmills, cement, waste lime plaster, resin, and pigment cast onto an 18mm birch plywood substrate. Finished by hand and sealed with a food safe hardwax oil it is a practical sheet material that requires no specialist equipment to alter or install and is available in standard 2.4 x 1.2m sheets. The beautiful material is suitable for all interior surfaces in both commercial and domestic environments, from flooring to table tops and wall coverings.
MaterialDriven currently represents Foresso in Dallas and Austin, in the United States. Contact us if you would like to specify the material in this region or have questions about upcoming projects.
The Katerva Awards are the pinnacle of global sustainability recognition. Through them, the best ideas on the planet are identified, refined and accelerated toward impact at a global level.
Do you know of any exciting innovations that represent a step-change towards sustainability? Katerva, dedicated to identifying, evaluating and accelerating sustainable disruptive innovation, is always on the look-out for game-changers and industry breakers; ideas that leap efficiency, lifestyle, consumption and action a generation ahead of current thinking; truly the most promising and impactful ideas! If you know of such an innovation - be it your own or someone else’s - please submit them here!
MaterialDriven is proud to support the Katerva Awards program, as members of its Expert Panels.
Founded in 2005, by Bruce and Bev Bodio, BioViron has established itself as a “one stop” source for companies and the public sector organizations in delivering environmentally friendly products that support a reduced carbon footprint.
BioViron offers an extensive line up of biodegradable plastics with proven commercial and environmental value, including the innovative BioViron Bio Compostable foam product.
All BioViron products are designed to be effective, durable and 100% planet friendly.
MaterialDriven works with BioViron for their consulting services in bioplastics.
[Basque Design Center][1]
Based in Bilbao, Spain, the Basque Design Center is a platform focused on the development of new technologies and disciplines applied to the circular economy, through the research of regenerative practices. Biodesign strategies, inspired by nature and biological organisms, will be explored as a driver of innovation, driving the transition to a more holistic and sustainable future.
With advanced resources such as the MaterialDriven Material Library, the Bio Lab and the FabLab, the BDC will introduce professional designers and those in training to multidisciplinary thinking, the principles of biomimicry, bio-computational design, digital and bio-manufacturing techniques. It will be a "laboratory" for development and research applied to the design of new materials, textiles, products and furniture, services, systems and sustainable and regenerative architectural proposals.
MaterialDriven has partnered with the Basque Design Center as in-house academic directors and sustainability facilitators.
