Imagination is the ability to offer alternatives to reality. While the form and shape of a design are largely determined by the materials used, creators with an eye on the future are harnessing technology combined with traditional crafts to offer alternatives to existing materials with greater functionality and environmental value.
While a dress can now be made of seaweed, and cars out of plastic, furniture can now also be created simply with tracing paper and water, courtesy of Taiwanese researcher and designer Pao Hui Kao.
Based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Kao experiments with raw materials, including tracing paper
