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Description: Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from Eindhoven, design graduates Aagje Hoekstra and Evelien Crooy show us the bioplastic and ink made from insects that they presented at this year's Dutch Design Week. nnHoekstra and Crooy, both recent Utrecht School of Arts graduates, presented their projects at the Klokgebouw building during Dutch Design Week last month.nnHoekstra showed a bioplastic called Coleoptera that she produced from the pressed shells of dead Darkling beetles.nnThe shells
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