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    Opinion

    Design: This Industry’s most underused superpower?

    2024-02-27T12:25:00Z

    In the run-up to the Performance Days in Munich, our author Charles Ross is wondering whether we might be overlooking the most obvious solution to our problems…

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    News briefs

    Snowboard binding and other everyday items reconceived for the closed loop

    2023-09-29T15:17:00Z

    UPM Biochemicals has teamed up with the College of Central Saint Martins at the University of the Arts London (UAL) to develop prototypes of products for a “world beyond fossils,” including a modular, interchangeable snowboard binding. The idea is to reduce the amount of materials used while substituting renewables for ...

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    Opinion

    Product design in the outdoor industry – where to start

    2023-08-04T09:54:00Z

    Charles Ross’ resume of more than 25 years blends work with outdoor brands, teaching roles on fashion and sportswear design courses at various universities, and his own love of all-things performance fabric related. He is therefore the ideal person to answer the question: How can we improve the future of ...

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    News briefs

    Event in Milan celebrates textile supply chain

    2023-04-20T06:08:00Z

    Both the Südwolle Group and The Woolmark Company, as well as Santoni will be taking part in a supply chain exhibition during the Milan Week of Design. “The Elephant in the Room” exhibition and experience grants access to and shows the various steps involved in the textile supply chain, from ...

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    E-bike development center Munich is now called Kiska

    2022-06-01T09:49:00Z

    The international brand and design agency Kiska is expanding to Munich. For this purpose, the EBDC (E-Bike Development Center), founded two years ago by Kiska and Alexander Thusbass in 2020, has been renamed Kiska Munich. Thusbass, who was already a senior designer at Kiska from 2004 to 2007, is the ...