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Clerkenwell Design Week 2016: Top Five Not To Be Missed

This year Clerkenwell Design Week is being re-invented as a more cross-disciplinary and experiential event. LS:N Global profiles our top five destinations not to be missed during the 2016 festival.

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Sustainability

DIY cosmetics kit lets users become experts

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Micro Trends

Home Factory

The age when clear distinctions could be made between the workplace and the home is over. Just as increased connectivity, mobile technology and our always-on lifestyles have encouraged a culture of working from home, the availability of technology such as domestic 3D printing has made turning your home into a micro-factory a viable option.

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Design

Pump it up: Zieta unveils an inflatable stand

Paris – Polish designer Oskar Zieta presented a coat stand that can be assembled using a bicycle pump at Maison & Objet 2012.

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Marketing & Branding

Technology Will Save Us

When it comes to technology, most of us only know how to buy it. We may be surrounded by a digital world, but for the most part we are only consumers. While we know what an iPhone, iPad or BlackBerry looks like from the outside, we know nothing of the components it contains. And while we can download all the right apps, if our latest gadget…

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Technology

3DIY Culture

With free access to information, and a new norm of open-sourcing, a new type of DIY culture is on the rise. This is 3DIY – Design/Download/Do-It-Yourself – culture.