Transmaterial

Fab new website for transmaterial.com

I’ve been telling people that we’re in the midst of a materials revolution for a while now. And do they listen? No they don’t. They throw peanuts at me. The pull my hair. They swing me round by my schoolbag until I fall over etc.

But they’re wrong. A lot of the truly amazing stuff that is going on at the moment is happening in the materials arena. The picture above for example is concrete who’s pattern only shows up when it’s wet.

Anyway, transmaterial.net has a new website documenting The Materials Revolution as it happens – lots of stuff that doesn’t appear on the other tech-tracking sites – but which personally, I find a whole lot more interesting than loads of things that go bleep, or “concepts” that are basically just some design student going all Roger Dean – doing a CAD version of a never-ending guitar solo from the 70s… and dreaming up some sort of form-over-function-fetish (shiney shiney techboy jackdaw) which will never ever be built.

All of this is real.