21 Jun Where bamboo is illegal
This young man is the bamboo future of Réunion Island, where bamboo is illegal. Did you know that you can't use bamboo as a building material...
06 Jun The Bamboo Musician
In December, Sampah Jujur was featured on Make a Change Bali— a project consisting of 30 videos about people leading the way to a more...
13 Feb Bamboo food packaging from Thailand
Yet another great use for bamboo- this time coming out of Thailand. Great video and article over at CNN. The company is using a technology devised...
02 Jan The future of bamboo is happening in China
I've had to create three blog posts just to chronicle all the amazing bamboo innovation and design I saw in China. They really are using this...
26 Oct Laughing yogini and bamboo bicyclist Suskitawati
Suskita is a young Chinese woman traveling across the world on her bamboo bike with a mission of spreading happiness with laughing yoga. She started her world adventure...
21 Oct IBUKU’s furniture collection in the Financial Times
“Fast forward to 2016 and back in Bali’s verdant hinterland, local artisans are carefully bending this ultra-sustainable resource into fantastically undulating sculptures, sans splinters, under...
21 Oct The best designers you need to be watching right now (WIRED)
Honored to be named in this WIRED Design Issue article on the best designers. Thanks to Bjarke Ingels for the amazing mention of IBUKU and...
14 Jun Bamboo is the 21st Century Green Steel
Financial Times recently ran an article on the rise of bamboo architecture in Asia featuring Ibuku and many other pioneers in the field. “Most people, especially...
28 Nov A school in Sumba
Sumba, an island in eastern Indonesia, is a totally remarkable place. A thin veneer of Christianity overlaying a wild and crazy animist culture. Beauty beyond...
12 Sep Back to school with the new Green School classrooms
An update for the blog post a few weeks ago where we talked the design inspiration behind the new classrooms at Green School. Take a look...
