Inside Biofab Fair, London Design Festival 2025

This year, Biofabricate’s annual showcase took a new form, The Biofab Fair, hosted during the London Design Festival 2025. Far beyond an exhibition, it has evolved into a convergence point for those redefining the material landscape through biology.

Bringing together designers, scientists, brands, and institutions under one roof is no small feat. At a time when the urgency to shift away from unsustainable production systems, animal exploitation, petrochemical dependency, and the pollution embedded across supply chains is undeniable, spaces like Biofab Fair remind us that collaboration is not optional. It is essential.

What emerges from these encounters is not competition, but an ecosystem of shared knowledge where breakthroughs, failures, and visions coexist to accelerate a collective transformation.

For Polybion, it was both inspiring and humbling to reconnect with a global community of innovators. The reception to our work, and to the unveiling of our first interior design piece, reaffirmed how ready the world is to embrace living materials and to rethink what design can be when guided by biology.

This moment captures just a glimpse of what happens when we expand our creative palette beyond traditional boundaries. In the coming weeks, we will reveal the collaborators behind each piece and the dialogues that shaped them, spanning lamps, cardholders, wallets, sneakers, handbags, and conceptual design objects that explore the many expressions of Celium.

Together, we are building not just new materials, but a new way of imagining the future.

Stay tuned.