Design Fiction

Five Retailers Embracing Hyperphysical Store Design

Big Ideas

Five Retailers Embracing Hyperphysical Store Design

Retailers are tapping into elevated store design concepts to create memorable and meaningful customer experiences.
Retail : Architecture : Design
Dutch Design Week 2016 Preview: Energy Overload

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Dutch Design Week 2016 Preview: Energy Overload

Eindhoven – Design collective Dutch Invertuals continues to examine future ways of living with new exhibition Power Play.
Dutch Design Week 2016 : Poly-reality : Design Fiction
Isolation optimisation

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Isolation optimisation

London – The Institute of Isolation film proposes a training programme aimed at optimising the brain and the body through sensory deprivation and c...
The Optimised Self : Lucy Mcrae : Lucy McRae
Central Saint Martins Material Futures Work in Progress Show 2016

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
RCA and CSM Show Review

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RCA and CSM Show Review

Graduate shows at the Royal College of Art (RCA) and Central Saint Martins (CSM) tackled some weighty issues this year with work that challenged ...
Royal College Of Art : Critical Design : Whole-system Thinking
Bistro In Vitro

Design Directions

Bistro In Vitro

A fictional restaurant imagines the future of in-vitro meat.
In Vitro : Meat : Dutch
Milan Salone 2015: Part 2

Design Directions

Milan Salone 2015: Part 2

In the second part of our Milan review, LS:N Global reports on the emerging desire to imbue objects with uncanny features, such as spiritual pres...
Milan Salone 2015 : Synesthesia : Playscapes
Preview: Milan Design Directions

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Preview: Milan Design Directions

In a snapshot of our Inspire section, we look at the design directions emerging from this year’s Salone del Mobile.
Milan Salone 2015 : Design Fiction : Haptic Experiences
PharmaCafé

Design Directions

PharmaCafé

Bompas & Parr envisaged the future of food and wellness with chromosomal cocktails, wellness mists and more in their recent installation in Du...
Design Fiction : Bompas & Parr : Dubai
SXSW Interactive 2015: Part 2

Big Ideas

SXSW Interactive 2015: Part 2

SXSW Interactive is a show of ideas not products. This year was no different as panellists debated diversity in the technology world, the promise o...
Design Fiction : SXSW 2015 : Gender
Nelly Ben Hayoun: Designing Experiences

Design Directions

Nelly Ben Hayoun: Designing Experiences

With a portfolio of projects including an operatic retelling of the Apollo 11 moon landing and a human-scale reproduction of a sub-atomic collision...
Rock Star Scientists : Design Fiction : NASA
True lies: What on earth is design fiction?

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True lies: What on earth is design fiction?

A new wave of designers is moving away from tackling current issues to create speculative scenarios for the future that have come to be know as d...
London Design Festival 2014 : Design Fiction : RCA
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