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Raw Movement
Inspired by human movement and touch, wellness interiors and packaging designers are embracing a raw aesthetic, experimenting with primitive shap...
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Blok London
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Boutique Fitness
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SFF 2017: Design Directions
Designers at this year’s show presented highly emotive objects and interiors that featured tactile finishes, block-colour spaces and architectural ...
Stockholm Furniture Fair 2017
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Interior Design
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Painterly Primitive
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London Design Festival 2014
Channelling the spirit of The Polarity Paradox, the London Design Festival 2014 embraced the extremes. Tongue-in-cheek, playful aesthetics and ex...
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Neo-Kitsch
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Painterly Primitive
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Writ large: Dior Homme gets playful with stylish scribbles
Paris – As usual, smart tailoring was at the heart of the Dior Homme spring/summer 2015 show, but Belgian designer Kris van Assche injected a hint ...
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Paris
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Santtu Mustonen: Analogue Painting in Digital Space
‘It is all about capturing chaos while also exercising control over it.’ This frames the work of New York-based visual artist Santtu Mustonen. Th...
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Visual Identities
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Design Miami/ 2013
Classic natural and earthly forms were re-interpreted at Design Miami/ this month. With a combination of rich materials and textures, designers exp...
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Paris Fashion Week S/S 14
Designers celebrated hand-crafted finishes this season during Paris Fashion Week, while others chose rebellion and angst as key drivers, and create...
Tribal
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Acne
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Karl Lagerfeld
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Milan Fashion Week S/S 14
Printed textiles continue to dominate, as Milan showed playful and kitsch prints with comic book references, while Sexy Sweat met high-end luxury.
Denim
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Smudged
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Ink Blots
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London Fashion Week S/S 14
Expressive prints and innovative textiles dominated this year’s London Fashion Week with silhouettes drawing inspiration from origami.By Thomas Rees
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Claire Barrow
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Different strokes: Céline and the art of kitsch
Paris – Phoebe Philo brought back minimalist fashion when she was appointed as creative director of Céline in 2008. In her latest catwalk show for ...
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PFW
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SS14
Design Directions
Scrawl Script
Brands are responding to the consumer’s need to know that there is a person behind their product, not a machine.
Handwritten
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Authentic
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Breaking the mould: RCA graduates are on form
Breaking the mould: RCA graduates are on form
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Attua Aparicio
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Oscar Wanless
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Mix Mash
Against a backdrop of optimism and experimental attitudes, and a willingness to take risks, we map a vibrant aesthetic direction fuelled by a wild ...
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