What is your stuff made out of? When we look at the products around us - consumer electronics, furniture, food containers - it's always that same fifteen materials. It's plastics. Glass. Aluminum. Wood.
At Nonfiction, we insist on getting more creative with materials. One of the ways we do that is by accessing a material library. Our headquarters hosts a world-class material library created by Material ConneXion, a New York City based material science company that gathers a lot of materials - and most importantly sustainable materials - from all over the world.
Our office features hundreds of materials that you can touch, smell, bend, and read about. Learn about why we have a material library, and how we use it in this latest episode of Future Future hosted by Phnam Bagley and Mardis Bagley.
Chapters
0:00 Meet your hosts
0:30 What is a material library?
1:20 Inspiration and aesthetics
2:06 Storytelling and performance
2:28 Cost and process
2:55 Digital and physical material libraries
Learn more about our material library here: https://www.nonfiction.design/projects/material-library
And, check out all that Material ConneXion has to offer: https://materialconnexion.com/
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