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Le Labo launches essential skincare range and other stories

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Le Labo launches essential skincare range and other stories

In today’s daily digest: Jigsaw confronts immigration issue, Dubai launches cryptocurrency, the growing wellness homes sector and other stories.
Beauty : Fashion : Finance
Nicolas Le Moigne on the future of luxury design

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Nicolas Le Moigne on the future of luxury design

The head of MAS in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship at École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) on why high-end brands should invest in augmente...
Luxury : Design : Technology
Friday’s headlines including a retail model based on social media data

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Friday’s headlines including a retail model based on social media data

In today’s daily digest: The future of online grocery shopping, HBO enables users to influence tv narrative, a mixed-reality fashion experience and...
Fashion : Media : Food & Drink
Workbays Village imagines the future workplace as a 3D animation

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Workbays Village imagines the future workplace as a 3D animation

Switzerland – Inspired by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec’s customisable office furniture, students of the École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL...
Digital : Design : Workplace
Milan Salone 2017: Design Directions

Design Directions

Milan Salone 2017: Design Directions

At this year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile, designers unashamedly celebrated low-value materials and interpreted shifting energy fields by cr...
Milan Salone 2017 : Marni : EDHV
A matter of time

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A matter of time

Geneva ­– École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ÉCAL) and Vacheron Constantin have collaborated to present a number of projects based around the them...
Luxury : Design : Watches
Milan Salone 2016: Design Directions Part 1

Design Directions

Milan Salone 2016: Design Directions Part 1

Designers presenting at this year’s Salone explored a tongue-in-cheek, flamboyant aesthetic that elevated plastic finishes and bright synthetic mat...
Milan Salone 2016 : Dan Adlešič : ECAL
Milan Salone 2016: Form and function

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Milan Salone 2016: Form and function

Milan – Students at École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne created prototypes for a range of functional household electronics.
ECAL University Of Art And Design Lausanne : ECAL : Punkt.
Milan Salone 2016: Subversive dreamers

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Milan Salone 2016: Subversive dreamers

Milan – Can objects dream? Students from the Media & Interaction Design course at ECAL consider the hidden aspects of everyday products.
ECAL : Media & Interaction : When Objects Dream
Fair hack

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Fair hack

Switzerland – Postgram is a new Instagram-based programme that initiates serendipitous conversations and is the subject of a new film project.
Sebastien Vargas : Postgram : Storytelling
Milan Salone 2015: Part 1

Design Directions

Milan Salone 2015: Part 1

Designers at this year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile explored the potential of haptic interaction with new surfaces and textures, and challe...
Milan Salone 2015 : Haptic Experiences : Storytelling
Milan Salone 2015: Top five products

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Milan Salone 2015: Top five products

This year’s Milan Furniture Fair bristled with excitement and a sense of unlimited potential as the city celebrated the opening of new design distr...
Milan Furniture Fair 2015 : Nendo : Philippe Malouin
Super selfies

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Super selfies

Milan Salone 2015 – The #ECAL #PhotoBooth exhibition during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile explores how the selfie phenomenon has altered our...
Milan Salone Del Mobile : #Photobooth : ECAL
Craft in collaboration

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Craft in collaboration

Milan Salone 2015 – In the first of several exhibits, students from École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) are presenting Time According to ...
Milan Salone Del Mobile : ECAL : Studio FormaFantasma
Baby it’s cold outside: If LS:N Global made… a home

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Baby it’s cold outside: If LS:N Global made… a home

London – The LS:N Global home would have mood-enhancing technology to combat daily stresses, and enchanted objects would be integrated into the in...
Home : Technology : Interior Spaces
In charge: Induction charger that turns iPhone into objet d’art

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In charge: Induction charger that turns iPhone into objet d’art

Switzerland – Spira is a magnetic, induction-based iPhone charger blurring the lines between artwork and functionality from interactive d...
Spira : Alice Robbiani : Induction Charging
Mass Tap

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Mass Tap

As consumers seek increasingly intuitive technological interactions, brands are simplifying previously complex processes into a simple tap.
Intuitive Futures : Mass Tap : Awakening Tech
Wool works: ECAL students explore the qualities of Merino

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Wool works: ECAL students explore the qualities of Merino

Basel – Students at design school École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) have collaborated with The Woolmark Company and Mover Sportswear on a se...
Ronan Bouroullec : ECAL : Design Miami/Basel
Room divider: Installation makes data tangible

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Room divider: Installation makes data tangible

Lausanne, Switzerland – A collaboration between EPFL ECAL Lab and ALICE, its research division that explores notions of space, has resulted in a no...
Vectorism : Data Visualisation : Data
Milan 2014: Part 1

Design Directions

Milan 2014: Part 1

Texture and surface design were explored through material manipulation at this year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile
Milan : Milan Salone : Salone Internazionale Del Mobile
Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milan 2014 Part 2: Top 5 products

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Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milan 2014 Part 2: Top 5 products

Another year, another fresh wave of new designs, products and prototypes for the design world to sit up and take notice of.
Surface Design : Geology : Futurist Montage
Moving moments: ECAL plays with home illusions

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Moving moments: ECAL plays with home illusions

Milan – A collection of beautifully bizarre products is being exhibited in Milan. Delirious Home, a playful and surreal interpretation of the ‘sm...
Delirious Home : ECAL : Reactive
Light work: New-old material raises design possibilities

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Light work: New-old material raises design possibilities

Milan– ECAL graduates Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard and Philippe-Albert Lefebvre have launched their TP-PanelsTM, which fuse 15th-century techniques wi...
Stéphane Halmaï-Voissard : Philippe-Albert Lefebvre : Terazzo Project
Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milan 2014 Preview

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Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milan 2014 Preview

The global design calendar’s main event, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, is set to descend on Milan for the show’s 53rd year. The city becomes ...
Milan : Milan Salone : Salone Internazionale Del Mobile
Shell shock: Lamp replicates ancient craft

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Shell shock: Lamp replicates ancient craft

Shell shock: Lamp replicates ancient craft
Joséphine Choquet : ECAL : Lamp
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