New Sublimity

Unglue yourself

Big Ideas

Unglue yourself

UK – Glued is an app that gamifies digital downtime for the family.
Device Addiction : Digital Detox : New Sublimity
Dutch Design Week 2015: Twilight hour

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Dutch Design Week 2015: Twilight hour

Eindhoven – Designer Daan Spanjers has developed a method to represent time through oscillating colour spectrums.
Dutch Design Week : DDW : Product Designer
JOMO

Micro Trends

JOMO

As more of us become exhausted with the notion of managing multiple online personalities, a new counter-opinion to the always-on mentality is emerg...
JOMO : Social Media : The Sharded Self
London Design Festival 2014: Conceptual clocks reflect on time passing

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London Design Festival 2014: Conceptual clocks reflect on time passing

Italian design studio FormaFantasma has designed a collection of conceptual clocks, entitled From Then On, to mark the 10th anniversary of B...
LDF 2014 : Formafantasma : Timepieces
Shedding light on grooming: Spa finds its green fingers

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Shedding light on grooming: Spa finds its green fingers

London – When you walk into Privet in Notting Hill, it feels like you have stepped out of the city and straight into the country. But unlike most s...
No-Gen Retail : Spa : London
Foam-scape: Artist creates ephemeral exhibition

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Foam-scape: Artist creates ephemeral exhibition

Nagoya, Japan – One of Japan’s most closely watched young artists, Kohei Nawa, has created a world of ephemeral foam shapes for his latest installa...
Art : Installation : Japan
Imagined Utopias: Candles invoke a better world

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Imagined Utopias: Candles invoke a better world

London – A Utopian world evokes different images for different people. Throughout history, philosophers, artists and daydreamers have imagined thei...
The School Of Life : New Sublimity : Utopia
Perfect balance: Scales offer measured approach

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Perfect balance: Scales offer measured approach

Basel, Switzerland – In a world of rampant consumerism, people often throw things away as quickly as they buy them, allowing no time to form a bond...
New Sublimity : Minimalism : Basel
Play as art: Changing how we view video games

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Play as art: Changing how we view video games

London – At our Future of Media Network Evening, held at The Future Laboratory HQ last week, LS:N Global senior journalist Peter Firth interviewed ...
Gaming : Art : Video Games
Moment Factory

Design Directions

Moment Factory

Airports are undergoing an unexpected renaissance, turning from stressful no-man’s lands into attractive destinations in their own right.
Installations : Videos : Airports
The Luxury Matrix Stage Five: Intellectual and Poetic

Markets

The Luxury Matrix Stage Five: Intellectual and Poetic

What we said: ‘This is a stage of passions, journeys, adventures and deep-rooted and meaningful experiences. It is not about brands, seldom about p...
Interactive : Experiencial : Stargazing
Resurrection Stores

Micro Trends

Resurrection Stores

Grand department stores are staging a retail resurrection. They are coming back to life as new and improved versions of their venerable old selves,...
Department Stores : Malls : Shopping
Moving images: Getty brings film library to life

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Moving images: Getty brings film library to life

Cannes – Do you think libraries are boring? Think again. Getty Images has challenged that notion by creating an interactive video wall in coll...
Interactive : Cannes Lions : The Light Surgeons
GFW 2013

Design Directions

GFW 2013

By Thomas Rees
Sweet Nostalgia : Revivalism : New Sublimity
Clerkenwell Design Week: Top 10 products

Big Ideas

Clerkenwell Design Week: Top 10 products

Now in its fourth year, Clerkenwell Design Week’s momentum is increasing, with more brands and designers filling the festival’s imaginative locatio...
Design : Geo Luxe : Hauntology
See the light: Musicians record on Sony smartphone

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See the light: Musicians record on Sony smartphone

See the light: Musicians record on Sony smartphone
Music : Promotional Content : Technical Detail
Milan 2013: Top 10 products

Big Ideas

Milan 2013: Top 10 products

At this year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile, designers experimented with artful lighting technology and considered a more human approach to tec...
Design : Poetic Lab : Aiko Telgen
Resonate New Media Festival: Five of the best

Big Ideas

Resonate New Media Festival: Five of the best

Resonate New Media Festival, in its second year, presented an impressive roster of world-class artists at the cutting edge of technology in art, mu...
Interactive : The Dawn Of The Mega-systems : Disney Research
Branching out: Onico salon looks to the forest

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Branching out: Onico salon looks to the forest

Osaka – Japanese hair and nail salon Onico has been given a forest-inspired design featuring birch trees and other woodland aesthetics.
Visual Merchandising : Onico : Birch
Cloud sourcing: Mason Studio creates calming space

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Cloud sourcing: Mason Studio creates calming space

Cloud sourcing: Mason Studio creates calming space
Toronto : Mason Studio : Clouds
Stealth Wear

Design Directions

Stealth Wear

The rise of data-tracking should have everyone looking over their hyper-connected shoulder. Or so says Adam Harvey, whose counter-surveillance...
New York : Mega-Systems : Personal Information Economy
Lost in space: Film helps hotel guests see stars

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Lost in space: Film helps hotel guests see stars

Chile – Photographer James Florio has collaborated with the Hotel Elqui Domos in Pisco Elqui, Chile, to create a time-lapse and stop-motion film pr...
Hotel : Hotel Elqui Domos : James Florio
No Noise at Selfridges

Design Directions

No Noise at Selfridges

As we predicted in our New Sublimity macrotrend, getting away from it all is on the rise.Businesses are creating new contemplative spaces...
Branding : Alex Cochrane : Pause
Retail therapy: Selfridges creates sublime spaces

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Retail therapy: Selfridges creates sublime spaces

UK – Department store group Selfridges has unveiled its No Noise initiative in its London, Birmingham and Manchester stores offering customers spac...
Branding : Silence Room : Peace
Sonic Landscapes

Design Directions

Sonic Landscapes

Furniture and product designers are using the science of sound to inform a bold new aesthetic.
Sound : Science : Digi-Tactile
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