Stories

  1. Read more: Halfwerk: A Brussels design studio turning surplus materials into honest, lasting objects.
    Halfwerk: A Brussels design studio turning surplus materials into honest, lasting objects.

    Halfwerk: A Brussels design studio turning surplus materials into honest, lasting objects.

    A Brussels design studio turning surplus materials into honest, lasting objects.

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  2. Read more: Studio Shorimoma: where sculpture holds flowers
    Studio Shorimoma Vala Vase S, M and L on a wire shelf with flowers

    Studio Shorimoma: where sculpture holds flowers

    Moritz Stürmer trained as a carpenter before studying craft design at the Akademie für Handwerksdesign in Aachen — where he also earned his master ...
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  3. Read more: Puebco: the Japanese brand turning old war materials into objects worth keeping
    Puebco: the Japanese brand turning old war materials into objects worth keeping

    Puebco: the Japanese brand turning old war materials into objects worth keeping

    Founded in Tokyo in 2007, Puebco builds its entire aesthetic around one idea: discarded things deserve a second life and that second life can be mo...
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  4. Read more: Rebottled: the Dutch brand giving wine bottles a second life
    Rebottled: the Dutch brand giving wine bottles a second life

    Rebottled: the Dutch brand giving wine bottles a second life

    Every year, 440 million wine bottles get thrown out after a single use. Recycling them still consumes about 85% of the energy needed to make new gl...
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  5. Read more: PlanToys: the Thai brand that decided a burned tree was worth more
    PlanToys: the Thai brand that decided a burned tree was worth more

    PlanToys: the Thai brand that decided a burned tree was worth more

    In rubber plantations across southern Thailand, trees stop producing latex after 25 years. Traditionally, they get burned. In 1981, a group of grad...
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  6. Read more: Ray Care: the Ghent pharmacist who stopped selling what she didn't trust
    Ray Care: the Ghent pharmacist who stopped selling what she didn't trust

    Ray Care: the Ghent pharmacist who stopped selling what she didn't trust

    For more than twenty years, Hilde Nys ran her pharmacy in the heart of Ghent. People came to her with skin problems, hair concerns, everyday questi...
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