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Six fashion and textile student projects that centre on their materials

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Dezeen School Shows: we've picked six fashion and textile design student projects featured in Dezeen School Shows that showcase and discuss the intricacies of fabric and materials. These fashion and textile design students have created garments that showcase the their materiality in addition to their overall design.

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Why Are (Most) Sofas So Bad?

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This was a slow, expensive, and delicate operation, requiring skilled labor and purpose-built materials. The big change in shipping logistics came when furniture manufacturers developed new ways of deconstructing and flat-packing their product, allowing sofas to be shipped via regular carriers, both more cheaply and more quickly.

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Five designers in Mexico exhibit new uses for biomaterials

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Called Deconstructed Home, the exhibition was set up as part of a two-week programme organised by Space10 , a research arm of IKEA. The materials ranged from beeswax to soil and the final projects will travel throughout Mexico after the initial exhibition at LOOT , a gallery in Mexico City, which took place 26 March to 9 April 2022.

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Previously unrecycleable clothing made into Fibers Unsorted textile

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"The challenge that Fibers Unsorted set was to develop a quality yarn out of the big waste streams of textile that are still today only down-cycled into a poor insulation material or get burned or end up in a landfill," Envisions director Sanne Schuurman told Dezeen. "We

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Architects’ Guide: 18 Ways To Make Your Designs More Sustainable

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From maximizing energy efficiency to choosing sustainable materials and ensuring ethical construction practices, these strategies are designed to help professionals make the most of available resources. By selecting locally produced materials, you reduce transportation costs and emissions and you also support the local economy.

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Architects Guide: 18 Ways To Make Your Designs More Sustainable

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From maximizing energy efficiency to choosing sustainable materials and ensuring ethical construction practices, these strategies are designed to help professionals make the most of available resources. By selecting locally produced materials, you reduce transportation costs and emissions and you also support the local economy.

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Lucerne School of Art and Design presents nine student design projects

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Dezeen School Shows: a thermo-electric charger for smartphones and deconstructed wind instruments are featured in Dezeen's latest school show by object design students studying at Lucerne School of Art and Design. It combines installational aspects with experimental interfaces, in the process deconstructing the traditional pipe organ.