Our new & improved digital Materials Library

To complement the development of our new Experimental Kitchen we have extended our collection of spicy, crunchy and fragrant materials, with the addition of freeze-dried ice cream, cinnamon, cloves, ambergris, damask rose, tuberose and cheesy wotsits to the catalogue. 

We’ve grown the selection of vitreous materials that we have out there in the world by adding glasses formed by lightning, volcanoes and meteorites. We’ve been exploring our softer side with new profiles exploring waste-based pineapple leathers, arctic furry gloves and sophisticated 3D knitted fabrics. 

You can also read more about revolutionary, historically important and experimental materials like supple and spongy mushroom leather, glittery and abrasive carborundum, tough glass fibre reinforced polyester, dramatic translucent concrete and much, much more…

Our new and improved online catalogue also has a whole host of functionalities.

Use the filters in the sidebar to explore different properties of interest like a material’s colour, category (e.g. animal, mineral, polymer or metal), form (e.g. coil, crystal or honeycomb) or how it has been processed (e.g. polished, extruded or grown).

Using the search bar, you can search for a material by name (e.g. carbon, copper or slime), or by an eclectic range of keywords (e.g. as edible, acoustic, scarce or smelly).