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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Little Printer

The smartphone may increasingly dominate our lives, but we still yearn for tangible mementos of who we are. As the topic of digital versus print co...

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Design Miami/ 2011

A thought-provoking assortment of work was offered at Design Miami/ this year with a creative mix of historical and new pieces exploring themes of ...

Natur : Armour : Amaglamate

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Ridley's

By nature, pop-ups can be incongruous invaders in their temporary locales. The not-for-profit Ridley’s restaurant, which occupied a corner plot in ...

Restaurant : Architectue : Temporaty

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Mad Science

In the Anarconomy Decade, new and previously unthinkable ideas are forming, and people are rethinking the way food is made and consumed.

Food Deisgn : Sensory : Conviviality Culture

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Rafael de Cárdenas: Interior Design

Rafael de Cárdenas and his firm Architecture at Large have garnered a reputation for impactful, vibrant interiors. ‘When you’re moving through a sp...

New York : Furniture : Retail

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1882

As a member of the fifth generation of a centuries-old ceramics dynasty, Emily Johnson grew up surrounded by china. She did not particularly like i...

Heritage : Christopher Johnson : Fine Bone China

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Super Authentic

Nostalgia : Vintage : Leisure

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Nectar & Pulse

Today’s traveller increasingly favours experience over luxury. Counter to the crowd consensus of TripAdvisor, travellers are seeking off-the-beaten...

Content : Recommendation : Guide

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Sensoria

Reeling from an era of excess, luxury designers are adopting a rough and raw aesthetic as an antidote to the inauthentic gloss and shine of the 2000s.

Coffee : Sensory : Industrial

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Up

As we reported in our Personal Information Economy macrotrend, a set of early-adopting members of the Self-Quants tribe have been going to great le...

Tracking : Measure : Progress

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Heavy Industry

With increasing pressure on space and resources, consumers are seeking products and services that offer compact and practical solutions.

Utility : Industrial : Waste

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Heliocosm

As consumers demand increasing levels of knowledge and control around what goes into products, smart brands are finding new ways to put their custo...

Design : Process : Transparent

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Paris fashion week S/S 12

As ever in the city that closed the four major fashion weeks, drama and theatricality were played out on the catwalk at the Paris spring/summer 201...

Revivlaism : Az-tech : Tactile Purity

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Philips Microbial Home

The average household expels tons of rubbish and human waste every year. This rubbish is often destined for landfill, or a recycling plant, while o...

Installation : Dommestic : Design Probes

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London fashion week S/S 12

This season, the overall mood in London was that of collaged experimentation on feminine, elegant, streamlined looks.

Super Minimal : Nicoll : PVC

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Dutch Design Week 2011

Mechanical Grace : Hand-made : Science

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giffgaff

In today’s disloyal and connected times, smart brand managers are seeking to convert customers into friends, fans and ambassadors. Ultimately they ...

Mobile Phone : Ambassadors : Comparison

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Milan fashion week S/S 12

Milan Fashion Week was full of life, vibrancy and colour with offerings for the spring/summer 2012 collections. Nostalgic prints from the ‘30s and ...

Nostalgia : Feminine : Katrantzou

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The adiZero F50

Self-quantification is informing the lives of thousands. As it becomes easier to gather personal information digitally, people are using that infor...

Tracking : Fun : PIE

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London Design Festival 2011

London Design Festival presented an eclectic mix of new work this year as designers explored imaginative approaches to material manipulation as wel...

Eroison : Industrial : Craft

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