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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The Chihuly App

Technology has disrupted industry by placing creative control in the hands of customers as well as brands, artists and designers. Now a new app ena...

Craft : Creative Consumers : The Martin Agency

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Neo-facture

‘Designers need, above all, to design new ways of doing things… redesigning relationships and creating the tools that allow them to do that in a ne...

New Industrial Revolution : Third Industrial Revolution : Open-source

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Quayola: Digital sculptor and visual artist

Art : Factional : Responsive

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The MiuMiu London

Retail theatre is an overused term these days. For something truly meaningful brands need to offer their customers a higher level of intellect, cre...

Heritage : Club : VIP

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11 11 Lincoln Road

Multistorey car parks have never been the most inspiring spaces. Often they are dingy, disorientating, smoggy and only good for one thing.

Concrete : USA : Flexible

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Psychedelia

A liberated movement of altered reality, surreal visions, and heightened optimism invites us into a trippy factional world – welcome to Psychedelia.

Netstalgia : Psychedelic : 1960's

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Life-Patterns-Objects

We all know what a lion’s roar sounds like and how our favourite song goes, but what do these sounds look and feel like? Dutch creative Bram A...

Design : Haptic Digitalism : DEA

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Paris Photo 2012

The 16th edition of the world’s largest contemporary photography fair hosted 128 galleries from 22 countries and showed an eclectic mix of work.

Photography : Faction : Astrology

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Caroline Hobkinson: Food Artist

Food Futures : Factional : Conceptual

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Harm Rensink Urban Spa

To escape the noise, pollution and distractions of city life, residents often find that the only option is to pack their bags and head to the count...

Hotel : Symbiotic Branding : Dutch Design Week

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Sweet Nostalgia

Designers and make-up brands are turning to 18th-century European styles to imbue consumers with the feeling of optimistism and abundance from the ...

Pastel : Rococo : 18th Century

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Starbucks Espresso Journey

Whether it is cycling brand Rapha releasing a flat white machine, or appliance maker Bosch and washing powder company Persil teaming up to make a c...

Nendo : Reflection : Coffee+

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Fashion Week Overview S/S 13

After the spring/summer 2013 collections reached their climax in Paris last month, LS:N Global presents an overview of the key trends. This season,...

Netstalgia : Curator Generation : Metallic

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Philips Hue

All the colours of the rainbow can be seen from the comfort of your living room with this week’s launch of the first web-enabled LED home...

Open Source : Personlisation : Connected Home

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Dutch Design Week 2012

An evocative body of work was on show at Dutch Design Week, now in its 11th year. Designers imbued products with tactile qualities and adopted an i...

Digital : Holland : Eindhoven

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Louviers Music School

Working on a listed building can pose dilemmas for architects and designers. How do you stay true to the original design without debasing it? How d...

Heritage : Concrete : Glass

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Stratigraphic Manufactury

Could technology equip us all with the tools to become the next fabricators? Antwerp design studio Unfold’s latest project builds on ceramic 3D pri...

Craft : Digital Craft : Istanbul Design Biennale

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Jason Bruges Studio: Built Environments

By Peter Firth and Thomas Rees

Wallpaper : Theatrical : LED

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Paris Womenswear S/S 2013

The spring/summer 2013 collections in Paris saw the reinvention of ostentatious 1980s looks, a continuation of futuristic textiles and the introduc...

The New Sublimity : Jensen : McCartney

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Brilliant Britain

From the Pinterest-style layout to the minimal branding and engaging, whimsical feel, everything about Mulberry’s Brilliant Britain micro...

Craft : Made In The UK : Nationalism