Top table: Heimtextil outlines future trends

LS:N Global visual editor Emma Chiu and former design editor Caroline Till presented four trends for The Future Laboratory: DIY,Revivalism, Super Minimal and Survivability.

Other companies included Dutch design team Stijlinstituut Amsterdam, Japan’s textile design company DAN Projeckt and German trend research team bora.herke, which will be responsible for the conceptual development of the Heimtextil 2012 trend book and forum.

Clear themes stemmed from each company including the revival of folk, DIY culture and the use of new technology to facilitate this movement, and an age of optimism. Bora.herke will take on the challenge to realise these four key trends at next year’s fair.

For more on LS:N Global’s collaboration with Heimtextil, read our recent Innovate feature.