Kaffeeform

Kaffeeform turns used coffee grounds into a solid, lightweight material for everyday objects. A bicycle courier collective collects the grounds from cafés and roasteries in Berlin, and a social workshop dries them. Then the grounds are bound with plant-based polymers and moulded in Germany. Every piece has a marbled, wood-like surface and a light smell of coffee, so no two are the same. The material contains no fossil-based plastics, melamine, BPA or formaldehyde. It is made to last for years, not to break down, and it can be recycled into new products. Developed by product designer Julian Lechner, starting from his studies at the Free University of Bolzano. Red Dot “Best of the Best” 2018, Materials category.