cork

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An individual research project as a result of our class' material exploration regarding the properties and possibilities of cork as a repurposed material.

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This project explores the properties and possibilities of using cork bottle stoppers as a repurposed material. 

The project has been a collaboration between the local start-up company Corkit. 

With today’s gadgets being made of sustainable semiconductors and plastics, users are unable to appreciate the added beauty of natural materials and perhaps the strong contrast when put aside common industrial materials. 

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 Float is the experimental design outcome from a third year “new wood materials” class. A class dedicated to emphasize hands-on exploration of wood matters , alternate production processes or techniques surrounding unconventional wood matters. We had the opportunity to work with reconstituting wine cork stoppers collected locally by the company Cork It.

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The ultimate beverage cozy! A flat packed, hi tech, interactive, bent wood, biodegradable object that can be customized, marketed, produced, and distributed economically.

Bottoms up!