Material Innovation Quotes

I have always been interested in materials and in transforming them.

I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.

The future of design is a future where anything material in the environment - whether it's wearables, cars, buildings - can be designed with this variation of properties and relationship with the environment that can take part in the natural ecology.

I had used the stretch materials for years to shape the inside of garments I made for private clients. Then I just started using them on their own.

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

Because of the increased physicality of the sport, golf apparel companies began incorporating more performance-based materials into their designs, as well as updating styles that had fallen out of fashion over the years.