vollebak | designboom.com https://www.designboom.com/tag/vollebak/ designboom magazine | your first source for architecture, design & art news Sat, 16 Mar 2024 06:15:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 vollebak’s new color-shifting ‘firefly’ jacket glows in orange by day and yellow-green at night https://www.designboom.com/technology/vollebak-firefly-jacket-color-shifting-membranes-03-15-2024/ https://www.designboom.com/technology/vollebak-firefly-jacket-color-shifting-membranes-03-15-2024/#respond Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:01:11 +0000 matthew burgos | designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=1053535

vollebak is back with a new glow-in-the-dark ‘firefly’ jacket. this time, its copper-orange shade gets even brighter and more fiery when exposed to sunlight.

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vollebak adds insulated hat that stores sunlight & glows in the dark to its solar charged range https://www.designboom.com/technology/vollebak-solar-charged-hat-store-sunlight-glow-in-the-dark-11-05-2023/ https://www.designboom.com/technology/vollebak-solar-charged-hat-store-sunlight-glow-in-the-dark-11-05-2023/#respond Sun, 05 Nov 2023 03:10:14 +0000 matthew burgos | designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=1027823

a phosphorescent compound is sewn into vollebak’s solar charged and insulated hat which helps it store light and re-emit it slowly over time up to 12 hours.

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vollebak ‘deep sleep cocoon’ is built for the first expedition to mars https://www.designboom.com/design/vollebak-jacket-expedition-mars-12-14-2019/ https://www.designboom.com/design/vollebak-jacket-expedition-mars-12-14-2019/#respond Sun, 15 Dec 2019 15:05:05 +0000 bryan shim I designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=646470

the hood of the jacket mimics the protective exoskeleton of the woodlouse, allowing users to create a barrier between themselves and rest of the world.

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vollebak’s ‘indestructible’ puffer jacket is designed to outlive its owner https://www.designboom.com/design/vollebak-indestructible-puffer-jackets-11-23-2019/ https://www.designboom.com/design/vollebak-indestructible-puffer-jackets-11-23-2019/#respond Sun, 24 Nov 2019 15:06:50 +0000 bryan shim I designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=642525

made out of dyneema, the world's strongest fiber, the the puffer jacket is considered to be fifteen times stronger than steel.

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vollebak introduces a jacket that mimics the wings of a blue morpho butterfly https://www.designboom.com/design/vollebak-blue-morpho-jacket-10-10-2019/ https://www.designboom.com/design/vollebak-blue-morpho-jacket-10-10-2019/#respond Thu, 10 Oct 2019 16:20:16 +0000 bryan shim I designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=631368

the surface of the jacket is composed of highly-reflective blue glass spheres, and shimmers from matte blue to a bionic blue in a nanosecond.

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this 100% plant and algae t-shirt can biodegrade in just 12 weeks https://www.designboom.com/design/vollebak-plant-algae-t-shirt-biodegrades-12-weeks-08-22-2019/ https://www.designboom.com/design/vollebak-plant-algae-t-shirt-biodegrades-12-weeks-08-22-2019/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2019 08:01:38 +0000 philip stevens I designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=617891

all you need to do is remember to compost it at the end of its life.

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this jacket is made from 2 billion glass spheres + reflects every color in the visible spectrum https://www.designboom.com/design/vollebak-black-squid-jacket-glass-spheres-08-16-2019/ https://www.designboom.com/design/vollebak-black-squid-jacket-glass-spheres-08-16-2019/#comments Fri, 16 Aug 2019 06:45:34 +0000 nina azzarello I designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=615081

the vollebak black squid jacket reveals a metallic, oil slick-like effect in daytime conditions, but when exposed to bright light, reflects every color in the visible spectrum.

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world’s first graphene jacket uses lightest, strongest, most conductive material https://www.designboom.com/design/first-graphene-jacket-vollebak-08-15-2018/ https://www.designboom.com/design/first-graphene-jacket-vollebak-08-15-2018/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2018 09:48:56 +0000 tim spears I designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=526800

without adding a single gram of weight, vollebak's graphene jacket has superlative, almost magical benefits.

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glow like kryptonite with vollebak’s solar charged jacket https://www.designboom.com/technology/vollebak-solar-charged-jacket-08-15-2017/ https://www.designboom.com/technology/vollebak-solar-charged-jacket-08-15-2017/#comments Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:30:54 +0000 tim spears I designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=444689

said to be the world's most technologically advanced coat, almost any light source can energize vollebak's solar charged jacket for up to 12 hours.

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