About
Radiant Matter is developing a sustainable material platform technology to form a nano-architecture of cellulose, producing structural colour, allowing the use of vibrant colour and sparkle without dyes/pigments/metals/plastics which have negative environmental impact.
Radiant Matter has partnered with Stella McCartney to bring the sequins to market, as seen in the recent cover story for Vogue and covered by LVMH, Forbes India and Dezeen. The founders are growing their technology platform, providing material solutions to further growing markets, such as cosmetics and packaging. Radiant Matter was recently a finalist for the H&M Foundation Global Change Award and a recipient of ERDF Eurostars funding.
Elissa Brunato's previous career was in the design and production of textiles and garments, where she witnessed some of the industry's global and environmental implications. While overseeing production sites in India, China and Europe, she learnt that whilst design decisions are made primarily concerning aesthetic and economic values, the consequences are unnecessary waste at multiple stages of manufacture and materials that cause environmental devastation and expose workers to hazardous conditions. Elissa founded Radiant Matter, a material technology start-up developing sustainable, vibrantly shimmering, bio-inspired material solutions for the circular economy. Radiant Matter recently partnered with Stella McCartney to bring their metallic-like material to market in the form of BioSequins and is growing their technology platform, providing a range of sparkling material solutions for various industries.
Elissa’s work has been recognised by the LVMH group winning the Green Trail Prize. She became the Arts Foundation Materials Innovation Fellow 2022 and won the Mills Fabric Material Innovation Prize, a residency at the Mill’s Fabrica Innovation lab in Hong Kong, the MullenLowe NOVA Creative Innovation Award, and was a finalist in the Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize, NY. Her works were selected for the Innovation Showcase with Vitra Design Museum's exhibition Plastic: Remaking Our World and are part of 'Material Tales' by the London Design Museum, a 5-year touring exhibition for materials that have defined modern life.