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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Milan Trends: Part 1

Revivalism : Fun And Functionality : Form Follows Function

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Stockholm Furniture Fair 2011

Driven by austerity, designers at this year’s Stockholm Furniture Fair used fewer material combinations for added flexibility. A lean and simple ap...

Hack : Flexthetics : Austerity

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Shop at the Savoy

You might expect a five-star hotel to also offer five-star retail. But even at the most luxurious hotel, shopping is often just a glass cabinet in ...

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Form Us With Love: Interior Design

Office : Dandy : Flooring

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What Happens When

Most people know what to expect from their favourite restaurant. The food, waiting staff and interior are more-or-less the same each time. New York...

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Hauntology

People are fleeing the storm clouds of recession, concerned about wasted resources and environmental catastrophe. In response, they are remembering...

Folk : Nostalgia : Ritual

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TDK Life On Record

Remember liner notes, those words that accompanied music cds? Now we routinely stream music from services such as Spotify, the idea of physical pac...

Music : TDK Life On Record : Audio

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Aitor Throup: Menswear design

Aitor Throup was born in Argentina, although it was his upbringing in Burnley, Lancashire, during the 1990s that fuelled his passion for British fa...

London : Menswear : Clothing

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Paris Fashion Week A/W11

With the media furore surrounding the circus that is John Galliano and the house of Dior, Paris fashion week got off to a negative start. But that ...

Opulence : S&M : Bondage

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Blueware

Anyone who doubts the beauty of process cannot fail to be turned into a true believer by the work of Dutch designer Sarah van Gameren and her Briti...

Raw Materials : Studio Glithero : Ceramics

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Milan fashion week A/W11

This season, designers at Milan fashion week paid homage to the 1950s and 1960s. Following the pattern at fashion weeks in other cities, many playe...

Teddy Boy : Androgyny : Morello

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David Kohn Architects : Architecture

Narrative is at the heart of young British architect David Kohn’s projects. Creating everything from a new London skyline to a guided experiential ...

Restaurant : Fiona Banner : Design Museum

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Art In The Age

In his essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, published in 1936, Walter Benjamin suggested that the aura of originality surro...

Heritage : Recipies : Historical Remedies

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London fashion week A/W 11

An air of ladylike chic with a dark edge was felt at London Fashion Week this season, enhanced by an outstanding display of print. Conviviality cul...

Gothic : Conviviality : Maximalism

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The Impossible Project

Polaroid’s decision to pull the plug on 51 years of instant film production in 2008 could have been a disaster for Florian Kaps. His online busines...

Camera : The Impossible Project : Revival

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New York fashion week A/W11

New York kicked off the fashion season for autumn/winter 2011 with a distinct division of styles. On one side were the glamorous, Upper East Side p...

Nomadic : 1970's : Masculine

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The Great Melbourne Treasure Hunt

February is a quiet month for Australian cities. The Christmas shopping rush is over and summer is coming to an end. The City of Melbourne had othe...

Twitter : Trend Forecasting : Treasure Hunt

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Survivability

By Franklin Till

Salvaged : Nomadic : Recycle

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Minibar For the Mind

Often, to open the door of the average hotel mini-bar and confront another identical row of dwarf vodka bottles and dry-roasted peanut packets is t...

The School Of Life : Poetry : Mini-bar

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Maison & Objet 2011

The first international home and interior trade fair to be held at Maison et Objet in Paris highlighted pared-back designs and colour schemes. Desi...

Cookware : Colour Blocking : Home

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