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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Make That Studio: Art Direction

Dea Sgarbossa and Nicola Russo are the design duo that formed Make That Studio, an Italian multidisciplinary design studio known for its architectu...

Make That Studio : Multidisciplinary : Visual Identity

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Starbucks Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room

Starbucks has brewed a new special project in Seattle, and it is a far cry from the corporate image and usual coffee offer for which it has become ...

Starbucks : Immersive Retail : Coffee

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Soft Psychedelic

Designers are channelling the cues of the 1970s into a new aesthetic that is dream-like, joyful and poetically erotic

Graphic Design : Missoni : Futurist Montage

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Design Miami/ 2014

Environmental references and surreal landscapes were explored at Design Miami/ this month

Design Miami/ : Synthetic Surfaces : Natural Formations

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TwoPoints: Graphic Design

Lupi Asensio and Martin Lorenz are TwoPoints, a Barcelona-based design studio known for its editorial projects and flexible visual identities.

Two Points : Barcelona : Visual Identity

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Deluxe Pop-Up Restaurant

The Deluxe is a pop-up restaurant by Lidl, although guests only find that out at the end of each meal.

Lidl : Deluxe : Pop Up

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Ascetic Contemplation

An emerging direction is drawing on references from religious iconography, architecture and meditative rituals

Ascetism : Meditative Environments : Spiritual Experiences

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The Unseen Emporium

Design studio The Unseen brings its unique synthesis of science and the occult to a showroom in London.

The Unseen : Emporium : Neo-Tolkienism

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Nelly Ben Hayoun: Designing Experiences

With a portfolio of projects including an operatic retelling of the Apollo 11 moon landing and a human-scale reproduction of a sub-atomic collision...

Rock Star Scientists : Design Fiction : NASA

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Submerged

Environmentalists’ concerns about the planet’s dwindling natural resources are inspiring radically futuristic spatial concepts, Brandstanding campa...

Submerged : Underwater : Oceanic

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Old Tom & English

The home-away-from-home aesthetic is moving from retail to dining at Soho restaurant Old Tom & English.

Lee Broom : London : Home-tail

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Möbius Design Studio: Visual Communication

As part of a new wave of design talent across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, the all-female Möbius Design Studio is paving the w...

Dubai : MENA : Graphic Design

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Volkshotel

Amsterdam’s Volkshotel re-imagines the hospitality space as a platform for artistic expression and creative weirdness.

Hotel : Amsterdam : Volkshotel

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Renaissance Redux

Fascination with Renaissance art and forms found in classical architecture is fuelling a new aesthetic direction

Classical Architecture : Studio Glithero : Museum Archives

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La Fondation Louis Vuitton

Bernard Arnault, the chairman and CEO of LVMH, has opened his own cultural gift to Paris: La Fondation Louis Vuitton.

Fondation Louis Vuitton : Paris : Art Museum

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Please Do Not Enter

Please Do Not Enter blends art with commerce for the discerning male customer.

Los Angeles : Storytelling : Nicolas Libert

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Dutch Design Week 2014

This year’s Dutch Design Week showed a continued interest in the convergence of nature and technology

DDW14 : Fauna Fetish : Experimental Processes

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Olive

The Olive wristband uses a series of sensors to monitor the wearer’s stress levels.

Olive : Stress : Wearables

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The Springs

At The Springs in Downtown Los Angeles, visitors can come in for a yoga session, work on their laptop and then finish the night with a vegan meal a...

Los Angeles : Body Temples : Wellness

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Paris Fashion Week spring/summer 2015

A heady and moody mix of alchemy and magic were on show this season during Paris Fashion Week as designers played with fiction to create escap...

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