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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Eruptia

Designers are relinquishing control over the final look of their work by adopting experimental production processes that result in a broken, cracke...

Cracked : James Shaw : Still Life

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Odd Matter Studio: Product Designers

Under the arches of a railway line in darkest East London you will find a duo of designers debating the voltage necessary to charge their tub of su...

Netherlands : Overnight : Vessel Gallery Lighting Editions

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The Commune Social

Fine dining can feel a bit staid. Even in the most achingly hip restaurant, inhaling gin and tonic through a vaporizer and cutting into a black pud...

Restaurant : Neri&Hu : The Commune Social

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Maison et Objet Autumn/Winter 2013

At the Autumn/Winter 2013 Maison et Objet show, colour palettes were painterly, and many designs were inspired by environmental hues, architectural...

Furniture : ƒcole Cantonale D'Art De Lausanne : Marimekko

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Morphopolis

From its pixelated beginnings with Pong and Donkey Kong Jr to filmic productions such as Grand Theft Auto, gaming has come a long way. Now it is re...

Gaming : Artful : Ceri Williams

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Timber

It takes a Frenchman to call flatpack furniture ‘poetic’. ‘Boring’, perhaps. ‘Maddening’, most definitely. Not, as French designer Vincent Tarisien...

Furniture : Painterly : Fly

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Mandustrial

Perfume : Typography : Utilitarian

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Lola Lely: Product Designer

Wallpaper : Potluck : Bronze Age

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DIY.Org

The merit badges include Forester and Forager, but also Rocketeer, Open Sourcerer and Circuit Bender. The campfire is a website onto which members ...

Open Source : Childing : Silicon Valley

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Painterly Primitive

A new wave of designers is experimenting with primitive marking and making methods, influenced by the human touch.

Abstract : Primitive : Human Touch

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Mr Fogg's

‘Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real,’ wrote Jules Verne in his masterpiece, Around the World in 80 Days. In the same way, the li...

Vintage : Bars : Victorian

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Dark Alchemy

Beauty brands are adopting the Black Magic aesthetic and embracing a new gothic direction that blends mediaeval alchemy with emblematic spiritualism.

Recession : Madiaeval : Charcoal

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Le Creative Sweatshop: Multi-disciplinary Visual Narrators

Abstract : Le Creative Sweatshop : Dali

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UN City

The dream of the United Nations is to ‘build a better future’, according to secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon. UN City, the new United Nations building...

Office Design : Flexible Interior : Staircase

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Ron Dorff

Beauty products often seem to be based on the principle that quality is best expressed with a long list of ingredients. A single active ingredient ...

Cosmetics : Performance Beauty : Functional Beauty

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Cartoon Ornamentation

LS:N Global has detailed the rise of Faction Marketing, in which consumers suspend their disbelief and engage with the fantastical, the surreal and...

Cosmetics : Sibling : Comic Strip

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Ciguë: Architecture

Ciguë re-imagines the luxury retail environment with acute attention to detail and a meticulous application of materials.

Sanctuary : Luxury Interiors : Meditation

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BMW Active Tourer

Bicycle racks on your car are always a bit of a chore. Not only is it awkward to hoist your bike up there, they also add an extra four feet to your...

BMW : Car Dealerships : Sports Travel

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Futurist Montage

Digital and analogue photographic effects, darkroom-type experimentations and unfamiliar image overlays are fuelling a new offbeat aesthetic that i...

Prada : Digital Collage : Venice Biennale

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Alchemy

Food and drink pairings are big these days. Until recently you needed the right Châteauneuf du Pape to accompany your braised partridge, and the ri...

Immersive : Synaesthesia : Sound Design

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