Design Directions

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Design Directions

Sideways Dictionary

Sideways Dictionary is a new dictionary that simplifies digital jargon.

Design Directions

Grow Up

Mercedes-Benz’s largest marketing campaign to date explores the complexities of being a young adult.

Mercedes-Benz : Neo-kinship : Adulting

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Autumn/Winter 2017 Fashion Week: Part 2

In the second part of our autumn/winter 2017 design directions report, LS:N Global examines the changing notions of femininity and the continuing f...

The Dislocated World : Prada : AW 17

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The Modist

The Modist is a new online destination for luxury modest wear.

Modest Wear : Luxury : E-Commerce

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Halo

In an industry first, start-up coffee brand Halo offers consumers a premium-quality product in a sustainable package with its biodegradable capsule.

Halo : Coffee : Sustainability

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Autumn/Winter 2017 Fashion Week: Part 1

This season, designers challenged traditional notions of luxury and collaborated with nostalgia-evoking brands. LS:N Global outlines the key design...

Autumn Winter 2017 : MM6 Maison Margiela : Subversive Luxury

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Delete

Interactive exhibition Delete asked children to consider the boundary between the digital and physical worlds.

DELETE : The Sharded Self : Awakening Tech

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Raw Movement

Inspired by human movement and touch, wellness interiors and packaging designers are embracing a raw aesthetic, experimenting with primitive shap...

Human Movement : Blok London : Boutique Fitness

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Did you mean MailChimp?

In its first major campaign, email marketing service MailChimp is leading by example.

MailChimp : Droga5 : Omnichannel

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Leta Sobierajski: Art direction

Art director Leta Sobierajski uses the body as an abstract and inanimate prop to create surprising and subversive scenography.

Leta Sobierajski : RUH : Art Direction

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SFF 2017: Design Directions

Designers at this year’s show presented highly emotive objects and interiors that featured tactile finishes, block-colour spaces and architectural ...

Stockholm Furniture Fair 2017 : Interior Design : Painterly Primitive

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MK2VR

Virtual reality is transformed into a social experience in Parisian cinema chain MK2’s new space.

MK2VR : VR : BNP Paribas

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Ripple

A wearable support network for people living far away from friends and family.

Ripple : New Bricolage Living : Parenting

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Fluid Capital

The move towards a cashless society is inspiring a new visual language around financial values, transactions and the appearance of money.

Finance : Cashless Futures : Snask

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Dotdot

Brand consultancy Wolff Olins has created a visual identity for ZigBee Alliance’s Dotdot, a universal language for Internet of Things devices.

Wolff Olins : Branding : The Internet Of Things

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Filter Space

The new Dr Jart+ flagship store in Seoul offers customers a refuge from the worst of the city’s pollution.

Dr.Jart+ : Seoul : South Korean Beauty

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Lucy Hardcastle: Creative Direction

Creative director Lucy Hardcastle uses a cross-disciplinary approach to achieve a hyper-real aesthetic that blurs the boundaries between the physic...

Lucy Hardcastle : Motion Graphics : Revelation Brands

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Do You Believe In More?

Musician, artist and dancer FKA Twigs took creative control of Nike’s latest campaign, which challenges preconceptions about sport and art.

FKA Twigs : Athleisure : Nike Women

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Sci-rides

Creatives in the automotive industry are constructing emotive, high-contrast imagery that references graphic novels and depicts the cars of today a...

Automotive : Maxime Guyon : The E-motional Economy

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The Frequency Effect

A new transmedia book concept offers readers the chance to blur the boundaries between fact and fiction.

Non-linear Narrative : The Frequency Effect : Alex Moorhouse

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