This book was conceived as being intended for all creative professionals who rely on materials and technologies–as architects, designers, stylists, artists, from students to experienced practitioners. It is meant to a be sort-of textbook introduction to innovative uses of materials (emerging due to the then Great Recession), written in the form of a glossy-hardback magazine. Indicative of the late-2000s; this is one of many such ‘index’ publications that would soon become obsolete due to the rapid adoption of searchable digital websites, post-2008.