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Noma Bar picks Mat Lab for Design Museum exhibition

Noma Bar is an internationally renowned Israeli graphic designer known for his stark and intelligent prints and illustrations. With a staggeringly impressive client list - which includes Coca Cola, Wallpaper, Time Out and the BBC – Noma has gained such notoriety over the past 12 months that he has now been nominated...

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The Material Lab Roadshow - our thoughts

Finishing at the Material Lab design resource showroom on Great Titchfield Street as the London Design Festival was in full swing, the Material Lab Roadshow travelled the length of Britain to bring Edinburgh, Birmingham, Bristol and London the latest in new product concepts, colour trends, textures and design...

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Träullit - a new material

This week, we thought we'd profile a family-owned business founded in 1946 in Sweden. Träullit is a functional, natural material composed of wood and cement which bonds together, making it lightweight, ideal floor cladding, one of its traditional uses...

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Mat Lab goes to Ecobuild

Last month, Ben and I had the pleasure of hosting a seminar as part of this year’s Ecobuild at the ExCel Centre, London. Under the ‘Hi Tech, New Tech, Eco Tech Materials’ session, we presented ‘Sustainable Materials: the Commercial Context’ – which was a great opportunity to share our experiences over the past five years of anything and everything to do with sustainability...

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