135 Episodes

  1. Elaine Yan Ling Ng on eggshells.

    Published: 3/17/2022
  2. Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien on card and colour.

    Published: 3/4/2022
  3. Aardman's Peter Lord on Plasticine.

    Published: 2/24/2022
  4. Alison Britton on clay.

    Published: 2/17/2022
  5. Tom Raffield on steam bending.

    Published: 2/10/2022
  6. Lucy Sparrow on felt.

    Published: 12/8/2021
  7. Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg on nature and technology.

    Published: 12/1/2021
  8. Robert Penn on bread – and the politics behind baking.

    Published: 11/24/2021
  9. Carmen Hijosa on creating Pinatex (a non-woven textile made from pineapple leaves).

    Published: 11/17/2021
  10. Amin Taha on building with stone.

    Published: 11/10/2021
  11. Mark Cropper on paper and his family's extraordinary history with the material.

    Published: 10/6/2021
  12. Claire Wilcox on clothes (and her brilliant book, Patch Work)

    Published: 9/22/2021
  13. Piet Hein Eek on scrap wood, waste and making the most of 'available possibilities'.

    Published: 9/15/2021
  14. Emma Witter on animal bone.

    Published: 9/8/2021
  15. Chris Day on glassblowing, the black experience, and why dyslexia is his superpower.

    Published: 8/31/2021
  16. 1882 Ltd's Emily Johnson on manufacturing ceramics in Stoke-on-Trent.

    Published: 5/25/2021
  17. Sir John Sorrell CBE on a life in design.

    Published: 5/18/2021
  18. Garry Fabian Miller on cibachrome paper.

    Published: 5/11/2021
  19. Mark Miodownik on animate materials.

    Published: 5/4/2021
  20. Sarah Wigglesworth on building with straw.

    Published: 4/28/2021

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In Material Matters, host Grant Gibson talks to a designer, maker, artist, architect, engineer, or scientist about a material or technique with which they’re intrinsically linked and discovers how it changed their lives and careers.Follow us on Instagram @materialmatters.design and our website www.materialmatters.designThe Material Matters fair will return in 2025, as part of the London Design Festival.Material Matters is produced and published by Delizia Media Ltd.

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