How can a material have infinity possibilities?

The Lumio lamp is the winner in 2015 of the Good Design and Red Dot Awards. The result of the Indonesian architect Max Gunawan’s taste for minimalist objects and clean lines, Lumio offers the utmost versatility: the different possible configurations make it a sculpture-like table lamp, but also a garden lamp, a wall or ceiling light, or even a pocket torch, according to requirements. Closed, in fact, it looks like a book with a hard cover in wood, available in different finishes. But once opened, thanks to the USB-rechargeable LED light, it reveals an unexpected luminous fan of pages in Tyvek®. “When working on the Lumio prototype, I was looking for something that would look like a handmade material but at the same time would guarantee the durability of a technical fabric,” says Gunawan. “I chose Tyvek® because it looks like Japanese washi paper, and offers the added advantage of being recyclable and tear-resistant. To activate the LEDs, simply flip through the pages to obtain a warm and relaxing light (up to eight hours of autonomy), with the intensity governed on the opening angle of the book: at 180 degrees, just place Lumio on a flat surface or, with the built-in magnets, apply it to the wall; at 360 degrees, the circumference of pages in Tyvek® can be transformed into a chandelier to hang from the ceiling.

Fyber Forma is a company founded in Taipei, Taiwan, in 2014. Specializing in unisex clothing and complements, its main products are coats, jackets, backpacks, bags and accessories. The materiality of Tyvek® is among the most important factors in determining the uniqueness of the products. Style and sustainability are the core values of the company, whose name combines the terms "fibre" and "shape" to indicate the infinite possibilities of the material. Specifically, the jacket in the image below is made from the soft-structured version of the material, while backpacks are made from stiff-structured Tyvek®.

"My initial role was a graphics designer and I was very interested in anything made of paper. When I came to know Tyvek®, I was fascinated by the texture, the unique features of this material. It has resistance and characteristics that combines both fabric and paper, a strong sense of contrast, and it gives people a very different experience. Thus, we decided to create products with Tyvek®."

Lazy-Life Paris develops and produces collections of inspirational and honest relevant designs. “The most important thing about design is how it relates to people - Our role is to imagine products that don’t exist and guide them to life… Design with purpose for the many.”

Lazy-Life Paris  embraces the evolution of change, with a vision “To create an endless reflection of hope, inspiration and love that will ignite the human spirit and change the world’s view of Frameless and soft furniture”.

“I discovered DuPont™ Tyvek® couple of years ago that looks like paper, very trendy, looks natural. We know it is an artificial fiber and this give the strength of an artificial fiber, but the look is very natural product. So we said why we don’t try to use it for furniture. So we started with some small design products, testing the attitude, the sewing difficulties, because we need to manage the sewing to be very strong resistance. We worked out the right way to do double stitching, back up the sewing. And step by step, we move from small items to the bigger ones, like a sofa. These products are very much appreciated by our customers.”

The "crumpled maps" by the Milanese designer Emanuele Pizzolorusso reinterpret a fundamental tool for orientation in our cities, but that usually have to be folded with care and attention. The act of crumpling the map is therefore a functional, fun and liberating act. This new approach is due to the material used to make Crumpled City Maps: Tyvek® makes it possible to have soft, light, resistant and waterproof maps that can be quickly stored in the bag without any remorse. Rome, Paris, Hamburg, Berlin, London, New York... the collection counts more than 50 cities from all over the world. Each one comes with a practical carrying bag.

Material: Tyvek®
Company: DuPont
Website: www.dupont.com/tyvekdesign
Instagram: @tyvekdesign
Email: tyvek.design@dupont.com
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