MATERIAL ALCHEMY: – ARGUABLY, A BOOK EVERYONE OUGHT TO READ!

Squishy circuits, boric acid caramel, interactive paper, and fish granite are all examples of things that have a same characteristic. The book “material alchemy” is a magical cookbook that contains recipes that push the literal envelope of build-wear-eat materials. These materials, both new and old, are materials that you may make and discover at the same time. In their work titled “material alchemy,” Lee and Studio Aikieu have attempted to dispel the myths surrounding a variety of hyper-materials, including mushroom polymers, thermic sculptures, and others. This compilation gives you the opportunity to understand design through the eyes of newer spliced sub-atomic unit juxtapositions; perhaps in the same way that a brick gave you the opportunity to understand a wall for the first time. This is very similar to the practice of deeply focusing on the composition of design, while at times overlooking the relevant materiality of its elements. The tone for what you are going to study in the book is established by a lateral expressive clarity that is located at the index for the book itself. Within the six new material groupings, which are either named by the application style or a binding topic, new age materials, trends, and storylines are presented in a way that is both innovative and straightforward. For the reader as well as the technical user, the only purpose of this book is to (in a sense) de-alchemize the process of making the new revolution of material comprehension, invention, and experimentation accessible. arguing that the accessibility of new-age materials will be as far away from you as a kitchen or a garage; for instance, enabling the creation of highly personalized forms and/or highly responsive meta-materials that are created from an infinite number of variations of the possibly simple changes in the proportions of the ingredients. To put it simply, a material revolution that was explained in text. Do you have an interest in learning how Van Herpen brings the next generation of 3D printed garments to life, as well as the material that makes this possible? insatiable with the need to create and taste the goods of your very own molecular gastronomy? Are you interested in ‘developing’ yourself? only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to meta-materials… The book takes a predictive approach to the future of material from the standpoint of micro-consumers, and it is prepared with a historical background to present material from a socio-economic perspective. In the same way that congdon and hastings may be interested in investigating the isolation of extracellular matrixes as a means of cultivable material, “material alchemy” presents and “crunches” the research of complex subjects such as Lucy Mcrae’s “make your maker.” It also investigates difficult questions regarding the proposed utility of biological material. How does the work of Dilatte help consumers participate in the production process, which is already a booming reality thanks to 3D printing and mass customization? Or, for that matter, how does the work of Fotophantasma, which is at the opposite end of the material spectrum, investigate the relationship between tradition and local culture through the medium of material? The book is arguably a must-have for architects, chefs, fashion and industrial designers, or more importantly, just a reader with an interest in matter. It contains all of this and more, and it is compiled in this nifty, ready reckoner shortlisting the most revolutionary potential approaches for the next generation of materials. As for me, I’m already waiting for material alchemy 2 to come out. A passionate individual who is passionate about “exploring design rather than packaging it,” the reviewer is an architect and interior designer whose work displays the philosophy and explorative avant garde spirit of significance and value in the conception and implementation of a project. In order to see pictures of the book on indiaartndesign.com, please click here.