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Why Wood Is Still the Most Climate-Positive Material You Can Specify

June 5, 2025May 30, 2025 by Kenn Busch
Bucknell University, photo courtesy of Crown Veneer

If you’re looking for a material that’s beautiful, versatile, low-impact, biophilic, and scientifically proven to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, wood should be at the top of your list.

Categories Sustainability, Climate Change, Design

Voices+Visionaries

June 5, 2025January 16, 2025 by Kenn Busch

Hear from the visionary young designers, artists, and creators shaping our world.

Categories Building Materials, Design, Sustainability

Interprint Inc. – Printing the Future

June 5, 2025January 16, 2025 by Kenn Busch
Interprint's north American headquarters in pittsfield, mass. Photo by Kenn busch photography. all rights reserved.

See how Interprint, Inc. is helping designers keep their pulse on industry trends, techniques, and inspiration.

Categories Building Materials, Business, Case Studies, Design

Uniboard’s Secret Weapon for Digital Design

June 5, 2025January 16, 2025 by Kenn Busch
A man uses an iMac to produce digital designs

Find out more about Uniboard’s complete digital design software Design 360.

Categories Design, Business

Omnova – Moving Toward Simple Luxuries

June 5, 2025January 16, 2025 by Kenn Busch

3D Laminates can be pressed over edges, into shapes, and with unique details. See how they’re making more intimate design options.

Categories Design, Building Materials, Case Studies, Interior Design

The Perfect Match: Preserving what we love most about wood

June 5, 2025January 16, 2025 by Kenn Busch
Tafisa’s Brass Band design, a Hickory woodgrain structure in taupe.

Tafisa’s “perfect match” combines three world-leading ways to save trees and conserve natural resources.

Categories Building Materials, Climate Change, Design, Interior Design, Sustainability

Heimtextil 2023

June 5, 2025January 16, 2023 by Kenn Busch

Happening 10-13 January, in Frankfurt, Germany.

Categories Events, Business, Design, Exhibitions, Interior Design

Milan Design Week 2022

May 29, 2025January 17, 2022 by Kenn Busch

Happening 6-12 June, 2022 in Milan, Italy.

Categories Events, Business, Design, Exhibitions, Furniture Design

Materials Pavilion at NeoCon

June 5, 2025January 16, 2022 by Kenn Busch

Find out more about the Materials Pavilion at NeoCon 2018.

Categories Events, Business, Design, Exhibitions

Heimtextil 2019

June 5, 2025January 16, 2019 by Kenn Busch

Happening 8-11, January in Frankfurt, Germany.

Categories Events, Design, Exhibitions, Interior Design
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