CMTEL is the Color, Materials and Trends Exploration Laboratory at the Art Center College of Design.

The New Materials Library showcases new and innovative materials with a focus on eco-friendly, sustainable, and technologically smart products.

The GSD Materials Collection is a collection of material products ranging from innovative, new materials to those found in the everyday built environment. The collection is one for designers, different than those for material scientists, yet it is not a typical material sample library found at a design firm that is organized by project use or application. The GSD Materials Collection places emphasis on material composition and functional traits of the material samples, encouraging users to rethink conventional applications and promote material experimentation in design practice.

The Center for Sustainable Design Studies houses a comprehensive case studies and materials library, provides access to life-cycle assessment tools and organizes professional development workshops in sustainability.

The Materials Research Collaborative (MRC) at the University of Houston College of Architecture serves as a materials resource for material discovery, innovation, instruction, and research.

The University Co-op Materials Resource Center in the School of Architecture maintains one of the largest and most comprehensive material collections of its kind at any college or university in the country, if not the world, standing at 27,000 + material samples and corresponding product literature (manufacturer catalogues, brochures, multimedia, etc.).

The Materials Library is a collection of some of the most wondrous materials on earth, gathered from sheds, labs, grottoes and repositories around the world. It is a resource, laboratory, studio, workshop, and playpen for the material-minded. It is a place for truly interdisciplinary inquiry and innovation, in which makers from all disciplines can see, touch, research and discuss, so that they can apply the knowledge and experience gained to their own practice.

iMatter, The Materials Library, services professional Architects, Designers, Engineers and Industrialists with updated information regarding the latest innovations of the Material World. The library opened to the public early 2008 with the support of the Municipality of Holon and the Ministry of Industry, Trade & Labor, as part of Design Museum Holon. This is a unique and one-of-its-kind project in Israel.

A since-discontinued quarterly delivery of fifteen materials hand-picked by Material ConneXion that provide an insider’s view into the state of materials innovation.

Hundreds of innovative materials purchased from a consultancy based out of Denmark.

A one-hundred item Innovation Center (pictured above) donated by Inventables, Inc., The Hardware Store for Designers.