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Micro Trends

Spiritual Retreats

Hotel : Spa : Retreat

Viewpoints

Designing Beyond Earth

Can human beings not only live, but thrive, in environments beyond Earth? Melodie Yashar discusses designing for privacy, ethics and wellbeing in s...

Design

Markets

LGBT+ Parenting Market

LGBT+ Parenting is on the rise, which means brands need a fresh approach to marketing to this unapologetic, influential consumer group.

Society : Parenting : LGBT

Design Directions

Shape-shifting

Graphic designers are injecting brand identities with the transience and fluidity of natural movement. In tune with our Awakening Tech macrotrend...

Branding : Awakening Tech : Generative Design

Design Directions

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

Design Directions

Sensory Assault

Artists and image-makers have often found beauty in the grotesque. Now they are honing in on strange, slimy textures, coloured liquids and imperf...

Gen Viz : Sensory : Maisie Cousins

Micro Trends

Virtual Happy Hours

Amid Covid-19 and self-isolation, digital tools combined with delivery services are reframing drinking at home as a positive, social activ...

Drink : Society : Retail

Big Ideas

Four key themes from Web Summit 2018

At this year's Web Summit, loneliness emerged as the next frontier in health and wellness, while technology companies showed how they are working t...

Technology : Health & Wellness : Retail

Daily Signals

Combating city living at Cosmoprof 2018, a holistic approach to running

Davines Group launches new brand at Cosmoprof 2018, Nike works with Headspace, Unilever helps to fortify the urban farming community.

Wellness : Food : Beauty

Design Directions

Act of Love

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

Sagami Original : Sagami Rubber : Condoms

Big Ideas

Central Saint Martins Material Futures Work in Progress Show 2016

This year's stand-out projects from the MA Material Futures course proposed turning our bodies into complex interfaces.

MA Material Futures : Design Fiction : Biotechnology

Design Directions

L’Isolé

Parisian bar due to open in time for Paris Fashion Week is taking steps to make its space more social and less social media.

L'isole : Nightclub : Social Media

Big Ideas

South by Southwest Interactive 2013- Part 2

Austin – South by Southwest Interactive 2013 saw entrepreneurs move away from app design and towards embedding tech into objects that interface wit...

Luxury : SXSW : Software

Design Directions

The People's Supermarket

Designing the packaging and brand identity for The People’s Supermarket was one of the biggest challenges that branding and advertising a...

Branding : Anti-brand : Low Budget

Design Directions

Nokia Craft Exhibition

The project: Nokia Craft Exhibition The instigators: Lianne Mallett and Laura Perryman The innovation: Experimenting with craft for future produc...

Design : Lianne Mallett : Experimenting

Micro Trends

Scenario-based Airport Beauty

Beauty brands are targeting Chinese travellers in Asia with services and products that provide effective solutions which are based on an individual...

Retail : Beauty : Health & Wellness

Big Ideas

Five Future Paths for Metaverse Beauty

Shifting focus from e-commerce to experience marketing, beauty firms are seizing upon the metaverse to educate, experiment and boost interaction.

Beauty : Wellness : Metaverse

Markets

Consumer Surveillance Market

Originally created as a means for retailers to generate targeted ads, consumer surveillance has evolved into a lucrative eco-system to analyse beha...

Retail : Data : Surveillance

Markets

Sustainability Market

Business is adopting a Whole-system Thinking approach that replaces the ruthless pursuit of profit with a tripartite system that gives equal weight...

Whole System Thinking : Sustainability Futures : The Immortal Brand

Design Directions

High Anarchy

Luxury retailers are embracing the idea of backlash by using analogue and anarchic visual techniques to deconstruct branded imagery.

Backlash Culture : Marketing : Collage

Big Ideas

London Design Festival 2015: Review

This year’s London Design Festival saw many exhibitors scaling down. Yet, despite its smaller scope, the festival succeeded in highlighting new a...

V&A Museum : Faye Toogood : Sustainable Design

Big Ideas

Stockholm Furniture Fair and Design Week 2015

Guest of honour Ilse Crawford opened the 2015 Stockholm Furniture Fair in front of a display of questions, such as what is design? and what is valu...

Furniture : Colour : Textiles

Design Directions

Soft Psychedelic

Designers are channelling the cues of the 1970s into a new aesthetic that is dream-like, joyful and poetically erotic

Graphic Design : Missoni : Futurist Montage

Design Directions

Möbius Design Studio: Visual Communication

As part of a new wave of design talent across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, the all-female Möbius Design Studio is paving the w...

Dubai : MENA : Graphic Design

Design Directions

Secret Cinema

Secret Cinema is not much of a secret these days. For its latest show, Back to the Future, the company ramped up its pre-event offer, immersin...

Secret Cinema : Back To The Future : London

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