Sustainable Design
7 Material Libraries For Your Next Sustainable Design Project.
These material libraries will help you select eco-friendly materials for your next product or packaging design project.
As a design leader at Possibility™, part of my mission to Design a more sustainable future is to trigger more designers and business leaders to re-think and re-imagine why they create, what they create and what materials they can use to minimize the impact on our planet.
After sharing some of our favourite sustainable materials and getting feedback from our digital community, here we highlight seven material libraries to help you find the best sustainable material for your next project.
Materiom
Materiom provides open-source recipes and data on materials made from abundant sources of natural ingredients, like agriculture waste.
Working with companies, cities, and communities, Materiom supports the development of local bio-material supply chains that nourish local ecologies and economies.
Its team is building an open database of material property and performance data for material analyses, digital modelling, and product design usage.
They have initial data to produce agar bioplastic, gelatin bioplastic, mycelium-walnut shell composite, and mussel shell-sucrose ceramic recipes. Take a look at the library and find more about the next generation of materials.
Material Designers
Co-founded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, MaDe (Material Designers) is a project that aims to connect creative professionals and students, industrial partners, and institutions to accelerate the circular economy.
Through the platform, Material Designers allows students to research, redesign, reform, and reuse materials towards a more responsibly designed future.
If you want to realize a positive impact through materials, check their page.
Green Designs
Founded by Marlene Bruch, a design student at HfG Offenbach and focused on sustainable design, Green Designs collects sustainable products and highlights sustainable materials.
You can find more about each product or material as Green Design always provides a small explanation and benefits and always refer to the project author to be easy for you to know more.
Material Driven
Material Driven is a design agency and a material library. They are experts in locating and sourcing innovative materials, understanding their applications and impact across industries.
Find here the innovative material for your next project.
Material District
Leading a network in the innovative materials field, Material District empowers global innovation by match-making material needs with material solutions.
Take a look, and you’ll be surprised.
Matmatch
Matmatch connects engineers, product designers, and procurement teams with the best materials and suppliers for their projects through a comprehensive materials database.
Matmatch aims to inspire people to build better products by changing how the world discovers and uses materials.
Material Bank
Material Bank is a marketplace for design professionals and brands in the architecture and design industry.
You can order samples to test out the materials on your next design — always free for design professionals.
Materials are one of the important elements to reduce the carbon footprint of any product.
If you are looking forward to your next industrial design project or on the stage to decide the CMF, take a look at these libraries.
Select the most suitable material and start making small decisions towards a more sustainable product. Every small step we do now can make a big impact in the future.
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