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Material Matters 2023: Designing Tomorrow’s Narratives

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Material Matters 2023: Designing Tomorrow’s Narratives

As part of the London Design Festival, Material Matters 2023 saw designers explore the transformative potential of materials, from new narratives o...

Materials : Sustainability : Design

By-product wool packaging keeps spirits cool

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By-product wool packaging keeps spirits cool

UK – Leather maker Bill Amberg has teamed up with vodka distillery Black Cow to create a sustainable bottle sleeve for transporting spirits, showca...

Drink : Packaging : Design

Immaterial Fashion

Macro Trends

Immaterial Fashion

As the fashion industry grapples with existential questions about supply chain and overconsumption, digitisation offers a new route for consumers ...

Fashion : Sustainability : Digital

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

Preview: Fast Fabrication

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Preview: Fast Fabrication

Global – A burgeoning revolution in robotics is enabling apparel and footwear brands to adopt automated manufacturing systems that have proven diff...

Automated : Reebok : Manufacturing

Design Directions

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

Luxury road maps

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Luxury road maps

Paris – Kering has unveiled its sustainability strategy until 2025.

Kering : Whole-system Thinking : Luxury

Milan Salone 2016: Elemental eats

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Milan Salone 2016: Elemental eats

Milan – The Restaurant by Caeserstone and Tom Dixon aims to provide a context to show design away from the white pillars and homogenised ...

The Restaurant : Tom Dixon : Arabeschi Di Latte

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Brutal Boro

Queens, New York – Architects Grzywinski+Pons have designed the new Boro hotel, with an interior and exterior that embrace the structure’s indust...

The Boro Hotel : Grzywinski+Pons : Brutalist Feminine

Ethical leather

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Ethical leather

Madrid – Discarded leather has been given a new lease of life in designer Jorge Penadés’ Structural Skin capsule collection

Jorge Penadés : Structural Skin : Tasteful Waste

Pole position: Scaffolding and exposed pipes give Tokyo store an industrial feel

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Pole position: Scaffolding and exposed pipes give Tokyo store an industrial feel

Tokyo – Architectural practice Schemata has designed a new clothing boutique with a functional, industrial feel for En Route, a fashion brand pro...

En Route : Schemata : Heavy Industry

Dutch Design Week 2014: Graduate to present scent sculptures

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Dutch Design Week 2014: Graduate to present scent sculptures

Design graduate Julie de Mol will present a series of sculptural objects for the home at Dutch Design Week inspired by the olfactory qualities of...

Dutch Design Week 2014 : Julie De Mol : Scent Sculptures

Down to earth: Raw materials on show at London Design Festival

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Down to earth: Raw materials on show at London Design Festival

London – Italian design duo Alcarol, whose work focuses on the use of raw materials, are exhibiting at Mint Gallery during London Design Festival.

Alcarol : Mint : London Design Week 2014

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

Beautiful contradiction: Material showcase by Peugeot Design Lab

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Beautiful contradiction: Material showcase by Peugeot Design Lab

Milan – Alongside its ONYX sofa, made from a combination of carbon fibre and volcanic stone, Peugeot Design Lab presented a series of seven ot...

Auto Design : Cars : Peugeot

New Designers 2013

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New Designers 2013

This year’s New Designers exhibition by emerging graduate design talent in Islington, London, presented a rich variety of work, including designs t...

Raw Materials : Luxury Materials : Flexible Interior

Milan 2013 Review: Part 2

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Milan 2013 Review: Part 2

In the second instalment of our Milan review, we look at the prevalent themes that came from the fair’s many design districts.

Design : Iceland : Central Saint Martins

Lovely bones: ECAL unveils primitive work in Milan

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Lovely bones: ECAL unveils primitive work in Milan

Milan – The Iceland Whale Bone project, a collaboration between 17 students at École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) and the Iceland Academ...

Raw Materials : Hrefna : Primative Tools

Sun strokes: Solar printer shows art of glass

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Sun strokes: Solar printer shows art of glass

Sun strokes: Solar printer shows art of glass

Glass : Silica : Sintering

Design Directions

Blueware

Anyone who doubts the beauty of process cannot fail to be turned into a true believer by the work of Dutch designer Sarah van Gameren and her Briti...

Raw Materials : Studio Glithero : Ceramics

Show and tell: Performance craft takes over Fendi

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Show and tell: Performance craft takes over Fendi

Show and tell: Performance craft takes over Fendi

Craft : Raw Materials : Action Based Design

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