Insects

Designer begins plastic knife and vase made to be eaten and decomposed by insects

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Designer begins plastic knife and vase made to be eaten and decomposed by insects

Altering the environmental impact of polystyrene, one of the world's most polluting plastics, designer Arnaud Tantet turned to mealworms and superw...

Design : Food & Drink : Sustainability

Ikea’s heritage meatball gets an eco-update

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Ikea’s heritage meatball gets an eco-update

Multinational furniture company Ikea’s latest meatball will not be served in its cafeterias, but rather in the gardens of its customers.

Sustainability : Advertising & Branding : Design

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A future-facing identity for insect farming

AI-powered insect mini-farm Better Origin has been rebranded by Ascend Studio to give a new identity to sustainable farming.

Food : Drink : Branding

Italbugs is looking to make silkworm waste edible

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Italbugs is looking to make silkworm waste edible

Italy – The company wants to repurpose waste silk from the fashion sector in order to create a high-protein flour.

Food : Fashion : Wellness

Symbiotic selling

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Symbiotic selling

London – In her MA graduate project, Retail Terrorism/Symbiotic Relationships, Royal College of Art (RCA) interior design student Corrine Guo imagi...

London : RCA : Corrine Guo

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Feeling antsy: New brand of gin distilled from insects

Copenhagen – We are used to hearing about the idea of worms in tequila, but a gin made out of ants? That’s an entirely new proposition.

Exo-protein : Nordic Food Lab : Insects

Ant Up: Mexican Restaurant Challenges New York Diners

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Ant Up: Mexican Restaurant Challenges New York Diners

The Black Ant, a new restaurant in Manhattan’s East Village, is putting insects on the menu.

East Village : Insects : Mexican Restaurant

Micro Trends

Exo-protein

In North America, entomophagy, or the eating of insects, is moving from an anthropological oddity to an emerging practice for the health- and eco...

Insects : Food Trends : Paleo

Design Directions

Morphopolis

From its pixelated beginnings with Pong and Donkey Kong Jr to filmic productions such as Grand Theft Auto, gaming has come a long way. Now it is re...

Gaming : Artful : Ceri Williams

Couture cocoons: Insects build chic fabric homes

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Couture cocoons: Insects build chic fabric homes

Tokyo – What happens when you give insects a few scraps of fabric? Japanese artist Aki Inomata has discovered that some will use them to craft thei...

Art : Natural Material : Ornaments

The 2063 Project

Design Directions

The 2063 Project

Sunday lunch is a time-honoured tradition in the UK. And today more people are making sure that the meat they buy is free-range and that their vege...

Food : The Rebel Dining Society : Insects

Wahaca experiments with insects on the menu

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Wahaca experiments with insects on the menu

London – Mexican street-food chain Wahaca has added grasshoppers to its menu to challenge the limits of sustainable eating.

Wahaca : Insects : Sustainable Eating

Design Directions

Ento Box

The meat industry is notoriously unsustainable. We need alternatives to beef, pork and chicken, and, as explored in LS:N Global’s Food Futures...

London : Sustainablity : Aran Dasan

Insect bites: New protein box won't bug people

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Insect bites: New protein box won't bug people

London – Students at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London have created the Ento Box containing meals made of insects.

Design : Insects : Protein

Bug's life: Ad uses insects to tout phone's eco creds

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Bug's life: Ad uses insects to tout phone's eco creds

Bug’s life: Ad uses insects to tout phone’s eco creds

Advertising : Denizen : Qualcomm

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