NATURALLY SMART TEXTILES

摘要

Wearable electronics garner a lot of buzz, but Berlin design studio Blond & Bieber has a low-tech alternative using microalgae printing. Founders Essi Johanna Glomb and Rasa Weber developed their Algaemy process after encountering freeze-dried algae at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology, which maintains the material in the form of a fine powder, similar to a pigment. Intrigued, Glomb and Weber requested samples to screen-print prototype textiles and subsequently developed a mobile textile printer for use on larger fabrics.