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Hastings Castle. Identity by Clare and Charlie Noon, UK
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Marketing & Branding

The Typefaces Reviving Heritage Branding

Folk culture, fantasy and a renewed appetite for ancient history are converging into a typographic design language that treats heritage and craftsmanship as a living visual currency rather than a historical reference.

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Design

Ikea launches furniture and décor collection that frames play as a part of the…

At Miami Art Week, Ikea used its Open House Miami installation to frame play as an everyday design principle rather than a zone limited to children’s rooms. The showcase unveiled Grejsimojs, a 33-piece furniture and décor collection informed by the company’s post-pandemic play studies, which found that families increasingly want play to flow…

Rimowa and Vitra, Global
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Design

Rimowa and Vitra unite for aluminium storage collection

German luggage brand Rimowa and Swiss design house Vitra have launched a collaborative collection of anodised aluminium objects, including a wheeled storage stool and a minimalist toolbox.

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Fashion

Swedish artist Carolina de Lara makes new textile with bacterial cellulose

Artist Carolina de Lara has used bacterial cellulose (BC), a naturally occurring material, and knitted textiles to explore the interaction between humans and nature in fashion design.

Pitch Studios and Bérénice Golmann have conceptualised Ganni's Fabrics of the Future initiative
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Sustainability

Biofabricated Futures

A revolutionary sustainability breakthrough, biofabrication is the engineering of biological products. This report explores its market evolution and future potential in transforming materials to drive commercial success.

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Design

The Adam Sheet is a textile made entirely from apple waste

Meet a new contender in the biomaterials arena – the Adam Sheet, a see-through fabric made entirely from apple waste.

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Design

World’s first contemporary ceramics art fair takes place in Brussels

Ceramic Brussels made history as it hosted the world’s first international art fair dedicated exclusively to contemporary ceramics.

Hagen Hinderdael, Austria
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Luxury

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 of plastic to biomaterial futures.

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Beauty

The Clean Beauty Evolution

David Hjalmarsson, co-founder of biome-friendly assurance mark Kind To Biome, predicts how the clean beauty concept will evolve to encompass beauty products that are made with the skin microbiome in mind.