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Browsing New Sublimity

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Marketing & Branding

Forests

Forests is a series of temporary installations that challenge our perception of public spaces and translate the ideas of the sharing economy into the context of the city.

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Technology

Unglue yourself

UK – Glued is an app that gamifies digital downtime for the family.

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Design

Dutch Design Week 2015: Twilight hour

Eindhoven – Designer Daan Spanjers has developed a method to represent time through oscillating colour spectrums.

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Technology

JOMO

As more of us become exhausted with the notion of managing multiple online personalities, a new counter-opinion to the always-on mentality is emerging called JOMO, the Joy of Missing Out.

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Design

London Design Festival 2014: Conceptual clocks reflect on time passing

Italian design studio FormaFantasma has designed a collection of conceptual clocks, entitled From Then On, to mark the 10th anniversary of British furniture brand Established & Sons.

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Marketing & Branding

Shedding light on grooming: Spa finds its green fingers

London – When you walk into Privet in Notting Hill, it feels like you have stepped out of the city and straight into the country. But unlike most spas, it is not a country manor that Privet hopes to emulate, but the gardening shed in which all the grooming and preening takes place.

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APAC

Foam-scape: Artist creates ephemeral exhibition

Nagoya, Japan – One of Japan’s most closely watched young artists, Kohei Nawa, has created a world of ephemeral foam shapes for his latest installation, Foam.

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Beauty

Imagined Utopias: Candles invoke a better world

London – A Utopian world evokes different images for different people. Throughout history, philosophers, artists and daydreamers have imagined their perfect world. Now The School of Life has translated three famous visions of Utopia into scented candles.

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Europe

Perfect balance: Scales offer measured approach

Basel, Switzerland – In a world of rampant consumerism, people often throw things away as quickly as they buy them, allowing no time to form a bond before seeking the newest and next product. Swiss-Japanese designer Nadine Fumiko Schaub has created Balance, a set of mechanical scales, as a comment on mass consumption and the need to form a…