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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Iconoclash

Designers and creatives alike are rejecting established notions of luxury by employing a tongue in-cheek fetishist approach to popular culture.

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No Fish No Nothing

For its spring/summer 2014 No Fish No Nothing collection, French fashion house Kenzo drew inspiration from the oceans when desi...

Kenzo : Digital Pop Up : Fashion Video

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Absolut Art Bar

High up, away from the smog and the people, you can find brilliant views over Hong Kong. But at the Absolut Art Bar located on the 17th floor of a...

Absolut : Hong Kong : Art Bar

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Santtu Mustonen: Analogue Painting in Digital Space

‘It is all about capturing chaos while also exercising control over it.’ This frames the work of New York-based visual artist Santtu Mustonen. Th...

Santtu Mustonen : Painterly Primitive : Visual Identities

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O’right Recoffee

It’s all well and good to talk about sustainability, the possibilities and the potential, but green haircare brand O’right is putting its money whe...

Eco-Friendly : Green : Coffee

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Milan 2014: Part 2

In the second part of our report on the key design directions from last month’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, LS:N Global reveals ho...

Milan : Salone Del Mobile : Furniture

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Fragrance Lab

In a corner of Selfridges, an experiment was carried out to uncover the future of retail. The Fragrance Lab, which happened in the department st...

Fragrance Lab : Selfridges : The Future Laboratory

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Fauna Fetish

In our increasingly digital landscape there is a recurring preoccupation with the natural world.

Nature : Technology : Polarity

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Camille Walala: Graphic artist

Like so many artists, Camille Walala lives her life under a pseudonym.

Neo Kitsch : Netstalgia : Memphis

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Bikini Berlin

Pop-up is boring, and the time for opening a temporary store for its own sake has long gone. High-profile examples have popped up all over the worl...

Bikini Berlin : Hotel : Experimentation

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Milan 2014: Part 1

Texture and surface design were explored through material manipulation at this year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile

Milan : Milan Salone : Salone Internazionale Del Mobile

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The Echo Project

A digital page-by-page companion to Khaled Hosseini's novel And the Mountains Echoed helps introduce the book to readers.

The Echo Project : Literature : Microsite

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The Sound of Taste

Let’s think about the category of spice marketing for a second. It is either Marco Pierre White, or a mum in a kitchen, contentedly stirring a pot....

Synaesthesia : Multisensory : Grey London

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Feral Grace

Beauty is going back to basics and embracing nature in its purest form. Think all things wild, feral and unkempt.

Feral : Raw Beauty : Wild

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De Natura Fossilium

Smoke plumes, fallen molten rock and a fine layer of black dust are usually the fleeting reminders that Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano ha...

Studio FormaFantasma : Milan : Formafantasma

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Maiko Gubler: Visual artist and digital sculptor

Switzerland-born Maiko Gubler studied visual communication and digital media at The Berlin University of the Arts. Based in Berlin, she worked as...

Maiko Gubler : Visual Artist : Digital Sculptor

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Lucid Spectrum

Designers are exploring concepts of playfulness and perception, creating intense rainbows of colour across surfaces, resulting in spectrums of lig...

Catwalk : Installations : Psychedelic

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Pia Wüstenberg: Product designer

Rich references from India to Scandinavia, inform product designer Pia Wüstenberg’s elegantly eclectic craft work. ‘Craft often happens locally,...

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DISown

In some respects, fine art is like designer fashion: many appreciate and desire it, but few possess it. In response, fast fashion retailers are t...

Dis Magazine : Art : Exhibtion

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Seek No Further

The 1990s are cool again. Everyone from ASOS to Iggy Azalea is referencing 90s culture for Millennials who are still pining for the era of MySpac...

Store Design : Clothing : Visual Merchandising