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Browsing Anti-Materials

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Design

Milan Salone 2017: Provocative prototypes

Milan – Design collective Envisions has collaborated with Spanish MDF manufacturer Finsa to imagine the future of wood as a material.

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Design

Material manufacturing

Germany ­– Philipp Weber has harnessed the coke production process for his From Below project.

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Luxury

Re-imagined waste

Dubai – Zuleika Penniman has presented a collection of interior objects that challenge the perception of bi-products at Dubai Design Week.

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Design

Transforming everyday materials

London – Bubble wrap, defaced coins and leather scraps form the intriguing premise for the latest exhibition at The Aram Gallery.

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Marketing & Branding

Wabi Sabi

Notions of transience and imperfection, which dominate Japanese aesthetic tradition, are giving rise to a new design direction in packaging that challenges perceptions of beauty with highly tactile, rough and raw surfaces and expressive, unpolished mark-making.

Nen by Supermaniac Inc, Japan
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Food & Drink

Charcoal facade

Japan – Architects Supermaniac have created a bold look for restaurant Nen that reflects on its menu using an unexpected material.

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Retail

Primordial perfume

London – Step into a volcanic chamber of olfactory wonder for perfumer Illuminum’s latest pop-up store.

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Retail

Black forest: Jeweller Ileana Makri’s flagship store evokes an enchanted wood

Athens – Journey through an enchanted forest of rock and metal at jeweller Ileana Makri’s flagship store.

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Marketing & Branding

The New Value Economy

Ownership is receding as an ideal and a way to mark value. We share, rent and borrow products now, creating new systems of value and worth in the process. This is happening across sectors and categories. But it is also happening in terms of trust, reputation, integrity, even in terms of how we value and market our privacy and personal data.…