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Lupine Project

Material From Lupins – The packaging material made from lupins was born from an idea by Iceland designers Inga Guðlaugsdóttir and Elín Harðardóttir. By producing fiberboard from lupine, a plant native to Iceland, the different stages of the plant could be studied by testing the flexural strength of the plant produced. Tests during the changing seasons further showed[...]

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Spoonie

Sustainable Ice Cream Spooning – With its cookie-like ingredients, the edible ice cream spoon Spoonie is not only a tastier but also a more environmentally friendly alternative to the traditional plastic spoon. Sturdy and chocolaty spoon lasts an hour in ice cream or desserts before dissolving. The secret ingredient is not the usual chocolate, but the fibers of the[...]

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Super Synthetics

Dissolvable Rice Starch Drinking Vessel – With the Super Synthetics project, a drinking vessel based on natural materials was developed by Maria Idicula Kurian as her master’s thesis at Central Saint Martins College. Various ingredients such as rice pepper, potato starch and bacterial cellulose were experimented with and used in the project. If liquid is added to the drinking vessel,[...]

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