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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Sonos 101G

The new Sonos flagship store challenges retail conventions by encouraging consumers to kick back and relax.

Sonos : Flagship : Retail

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Shakespeare ReFASHIONed

A multisensory campaign by Selfridges weaves the works of Shakespeare into the fabric of contemporary design and culture.

Selfridges : Explorium Retail : Shakespeare ReFASHIONed

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Archiproba: Interior Architecture

Interior design practice Archiproba focuses on the sentimental aspect of spaces to highlight the emotional value of architecture. ‘I valu...

Interior Architecture : Beauty Spaces : Minimal

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Black Rock

Every element of Black Rock is geared towards making the complexity of flavour and the breadth of variety in whisky more understandable to the unin...

Black Rock : Whiskey : Bars

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Info-morphing

Infographic designers are drawing on biomorphic forms to create a more seamless and intuitive understanding of hard information through shape, colo...

Digital Footprint : Organic : Infographics

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Watermelon Sugar

Designer Pamm Hong has created a speculative platform that visualises a user’s browsing history as an abstract creature.

Online Identity : Algorithms : The Sharded Self

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Mathery Studio: Multidisciplinary design

Design studio Mathery is renowned for its playful creative work that elevates everyday materials.

Mathery : Multi-disciplinary : Photography

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Mini Vision Next 100

BMW by unveiling its Mini Vision Vehicle, designed with a focus on personalisation and interior simplicity.

Mini Vision Next 100 : Automotive : Personalisation

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Graduate Fashion Week 2016: Design Directions

During Graduate Fashion Week 2016 designers presented collections that explored new aesthetics, experimental materials and unexpected textures ...

Graduate Fashion Week : Material Experimentation : Neutral Culture

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Home Economics

The exhibition at this year’s British Pavilion presented a range of innovative solutions to address the country’s housing crisis.

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 : Housing : Finance

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Première Pièce

Google has built an escape game in which players have to apply its apps in creative ways to find clues and escape against the clock.

Google France : Prémiére Piece : Creative Phy-gital

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Soft Aid

Healthcare brands and medical services are taking cues from the lifestyle industries and adopting a sensory aesthetic to de-stigmatise medical prod...

Healthcare Futures : Wellness : Branding

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Hyper-reality

Hyper-reality is a dystopian vision of the future in which augmented reality dictates the way that people interact with their surroundings.

Keiichi Matsuda : Hyper-reality : Augmented Reality

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The Collective: Old Oak

The largest co-living space in the world has just opened in northwest London, offering 550 residents shared living space.

Co-living : The Sharing Economy : Urban Housing

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The Estée Edit

Estée Lauder aims to attract a younger market with its new social media-inspired beauty range.

Estée Lauder : Sephora : Skincare

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Thomas Traum: Digital Image-Making

Creative studio Thomas Traum takes digital image-making beyond single deliverables – a campaign, still image or video clip – and builds entire visu...

Poly-reality : Digital : Thomas Eberwein

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Urban Dimensions

New spatial and digital initiatives are injecting a sense of discovery into the urban landscape by unlocking new viewing angles with a ju...

Revelation Brands : Field : Urban Landscape

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Sea Hero Quest

Sea Hero Quest is a mobile game that is helping to speed up research into dementia.

Deutsche Telekom : Glitchers : Gaming

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Act of Love

Condom manufacturer Sagami Original’s visual dictionary of courtship rituals is the first of its kind.

Sagami Original : Sagami Rubber : Condoms

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Milan Salone 2016: Design Directions Part 2

In the second part of our Milan Salone Internazionale del Mobile review, LS:N Global reports on the emerging fascination with subtly fetishistic, s...

Milan Salone 2016 : Formafantasma : Fernando Mastrangelo