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Recognition

Awards and recognition

D&AD Future Impact 2026
Dezeen Awards Surface Design of the Year, 2025
Dezeen Awards China Bespoke and Collectible Design of the Year, 2025
FRAME Awards Best Use of Light, 2025
Australian Good Design Awards Best in Class
INDE Honourable Mention The Object, 2025
Australian patent granted 2026
International patents filed 2026
CSIRO Award Most Promising Advancement in Achieving the Ending Plastic Waste Mission Goal, 2024

Coverage

Australian Financial Review Material Girl: one woman’s quest to eradicate plastics with algae Dezeen Other Matter launches bio-leather made from single-use signage FRAME Magazine “The real misconception is thinking about materials through a binary of good and bad at all” Design Anthology Melbourne’s Other Matter cooks signage film offcuts into algae-based leather Design Milk At 3daysofdesign, Aesop tests out a bioplastic window decal alternative Monocle on Design Copenhagen’s 3 Days of Design and how to innovate materially, with Jessie French Material Matters with Grant Gibson Algae, sustainability and systems design, with Rebecca Lawson of Aesop and Jessie French of Other Matter

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Other Matter® is a research-led design studio working across material innovation and whole-system circular design. The studio explores the aesthetic and ecological potential of non-petrochemical polymers, developing them into applications across signage, surfaces and materials for interior architecture, furniture and objects.

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Other Matter acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Eastern Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which we live and work. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded.

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