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Micro Trends

Digital Detox Destinations

With the aim of finding a solution to the incessant bombardment from our digital devices, people are swapping their screens for bucolic scenes, see...

Travel : Analogue : Mindfulness

News

Stat: Physical music sales increase for first time in 20 years

Data from The Official Charts Company and BPI reveals that in the first half of 2024 more than 8 million physical album units have been sold, ...

Music : Pop Culture : Media

Markets

Teens, Tech and Tapping Out

The unprecedented teen mental health crisis, coupled with the toxic and addictive nature of social media, may be inspiring a grassroots movement of...

Technology : Identities : Youth

News

A machine to customise your background noise

Designer Yuri Suzuki is empowering people to tailor the background noise in their homes with The Ambient Machine device.

Health And Wellness : Technology : Media And Entertainment

News

Retro-future console Playdate spotlights indie developers

Playing into the demand for alternative gaming experiences, software company Panic is making its first foray into hardware with the launch of a han...

Media & Entertainment : Technology : Design

Macro Trends

Paradox Personas

Unlike Millennials, Generation Z are swapping self-promotion for self-awareness, using the digital world to enrich but not define their offline sel...

Youth : Digital : Identity

News

Cute coding

London – Cubetto is a wooden robot designed by toy and game manufacturer Primo that teaches children the principles of coding.

Cubetto : Arduino : Generation I

Big Ideas

Bringing paper back

UK – Publisher Trinity Mirror has gone back to the drawing board to create the UK’s first stand-alone newspaper in more than three decades.

Trinity Mirror : Newspaper : New Day

News

Analogue renaissance

Tokyo – CD packaging by design studio Spread uses an industrial aesthetic to comment on the format’s resurgence.

Spread Studio : CD : Analogue

News

On/off Balance

Bauhaus University, Weimar – A new lamp designed to make people concentrate is among the latest products created to help us switch off from our p...

Balance Lamp : Weng Xinyu : Weimar

News

Norwegian mood: Digital techniques give banknotes a natural feel

Oslo – Norwegian design firm Snøhetta uses digital techniques to evoke Norway’s natural environment for the country’s new banknotes.

Norway : Currency : Graphic Design

News

From iPad to Paper: Self-publishing made easy

New York, Seattle – The ideation and creation app Paper, by design team FiftyThree, has been given life in the physical world thanks to notebook ma...

New York : Moleskine : The Editor

Big Ideas

Honda campaigns to save drive-in cinemas in US

Cars : Project Drive In : Drive In Cinema

News

Audio-visuals: Studio creates sound merchandise

Arnhem, the Netherlands – Dutch design studio Hands has created merchandise for experimental record label Electric Deluxe in the Audio Transmitted ...

Music : Morse Code : Electric Deluxe

News

Show time: Installation is one in a million

Stockholm – Stockholm-based studio Humans Since 1982 has combined 288 analogue clocks to create a moving installation that shows the time digitally...

Installation : Design Days Dubai : Humans Since 1982

News

Film archive: Scanner revives photo negatives

Vienna – The analogue film enthusiasts at Lomography have announced the Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner, a device that will enable smartphones t...

Photography : Anachronism : Obsolete

News

Instant hit: Device takes analogue iPhone photos

Netherlands : Prints : Print

News

Picture box: Instant prints of digital images

Instaprint : Instagram : Digi-Tactile

News

News cube: Little Printer delivers square deal

Little Printer : Analogue : News

News

Picture that: Photo app brings memories to life

1000 Memories : Photography : Photo-sharing

News

Still creative: Camera reels off analogue films

Camera : Analogue : Photography

Design Directions

TDK Life On Record

Remember liner notes, those words that accompanied music cds? Now we routinely stream music from services such as Spotify, the idea of physical pac...

Music : TDK Life On Record : Audio

Design Directions

The Impossible Project

Polaroid’s decision to pull the plug on 51 years of instant film production in 2008 could have been a disaster for Florian Kaps. His online busines...

Camera : The Impossible Project : Revival

Design Directions

Survivability

By Franklin Till

Salvaged : Nomadic : Recycle

News

Denim update: Photo app promotes jeans brand

Levi's : Instagram : Analogue