Design Directions

Translating consumer trends into actionable designs, colour palettes and materials.

Biofabricated Futures

A revolutionary sustainability breakthrough, biofabrication is the engineering of biological products. This report explores its market evolution and future potential in transforming materials to drive commercial success

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Graduate Fashion Week 2015

During Graduate Fashion Week 2015 designers presented collections that explored new aesthetics, experimental materials and unexpected textures and ...

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Mischer’Traxler: Product and installation

Fusing traditional handcraft with mechanical systems, Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler create objects and installations that challenge and cr...

Mischer'Traxler : Vienna : Perrier-Jouët

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Glossier

Glossier is a cosmetics line designed for the networked Millennial who is bored by perfection and wants a product line that complements her, rathe...

Glossier : Emily Weiss : Cosmetics

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Nordea Markets

Design studio Snask revitalises an investment bank’s identity with a contemporary and playful rebrand.

Nordea Markets : Snask : Bank

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Euphorescence

Employing chromatic stimulation, light therapy and meditative imagery, designers are creating new environments that enhance and optimise our menta...

The Optimised Self : Zoned-out Spaces : Essential Self

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Listeners Project

A film-making collective is racing to create shorts in just 24 hours in London’s disused spaces before their sets are lost for ever.

Listeners Project : Ephemeral : Convergence

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4NewsWall

Targeting members of Generation D with an appetite for current affairs, the first GIF-based news service has been launched by Channel 4 News.

Microcommunication : Channel 4 News : GIFs

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The Principals: Immersive Architecture

New York-based cross-disciplinary studio The Principals creates immersive projects that generate additional experiences beyond the physical.

Responsive Architecture : Installation : Soundscapes

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Bistro In Vitro

A fictional restaurant imagines the future of in-vitro meat.

In Vitro : Meat : Dutch

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Native Narratives

Influenced by pagan mysticism and the indigenous art of different cultures, this new design direction is a carefully balanced combination of an a...

Luxury : Cultural Fluidity : Retail Interiors

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Future Food District

A digitally enhanced supermarket of the future, blending big data and community, is being showcased at Milan Expo 2015

Food Futures : Big Data : Retail Futures

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United Visual Artists: Light and Sound

By manipulating the immaterial mediums of light and sound, United Visual Artists constructs spatial installations that pull the audience away fro...

UVA : MINI Parallels : Momentum

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Milan Salone 2015: Part 2

In the second part of our Milan review, LS:N Global reports on the emerging desire to imbue objects with uncanny features, such as spiritual pres...

Milan Salone 2015 : Synesthesia : Playscapes

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Haeckels

Transporting the botanicals and aesthetic of the English coast to London, Haeckels beauty brand has launched a pop-up apothecary in Shoreditch.

Margate : Haeckels : Ace Hotel

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Milan Salone 2015: Part 1

Designers at this year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile explored the potential of haptic interaction with new surfaces and textures, and challe...

Milan Salone 2015 : Haptic Experiences : Storytelling

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#PhotoBooth

Pouting, airbrushing, contouring and adding a sun-drenched filter to create a glamorous character in our own daily social media drama. The act of...

Selfie : ECAL University Of Art And Design Lausanne : Milan Salone

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Breakfast Defectors

Using sameness as a starting point for inspiration, advertising agency Deutsch Los Angeles has imagined a dystopian world in which its client, Taco...

Taco Bell : Chasm Culture : Faction Marketing

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Magic hour

Twice a day around the world, intrepid consumers can unlock Peak Performance’s virtual pop-up stores by visiting their outdoor locations during s...

Peak Performance : Virtual Pop Up : Athletes

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Shape-shifting

Graphic designers are injecting brand identities with the transience and fluidity of natural movement. In tune with our Awakening Tech macrotrend...

Branding : Awakening Tech : Generative Design

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PharmaCafé

Bompas & Parr envisaged the future of food and wellness with chromosomal cocktails, wellness mists and more in their recent installation in Du...

Design Fiction : Bompas & Parr : Dubai