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Marketing & Branding

Lego and Nike announce partnership to champion kids’ play and creativity

Lego and Nike have unveiled a ground-breaking multi-year partnership aimed at combining sport and creative play for kids worldwide.

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Luxury

Milan Salone 2017: Design Directions

At this year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile, designers unashamedly celebrated low-value materials and interpreted shifting energy fields by creating reactive objects.

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Luxury

Wireframe Architecture

Alongside the typical tropes of luxury interior design emerges a new, nonchalant aesthetic. Geo-lux finishes are replaced with brightly coloured landscapes of block shapes and extruded forms that reference the clean geometries of computer-aided design and wireframe architecture.

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Marketing & Branding

Playtime

San Pedro Garza García, Mexico – Branding agency Anagrama has shown that designing the perfect retail environment is child’s play.

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Marketing & Branding

Milan Salone 2015: Part 2

In the second part of our Milan review, LS:N Global reports on the emerging desire to imbue objects with uncanny features, such as spiritual presence or synaesthetic qualities.

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Design

Preview: Milan Design Directions

In a snapshot of our Inspire section, we look at the design directions emerging from this year’s Salone del Mobile.

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Design

Rock stars: Playful chalets offer ultimate escape

South Korea – South Korean architect Moon Hoon has created a series of chalets designed to add an element of play into architecture.

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Europe

Paper dolls: New dimension at Comme des Garçons

Paris – Comme des Garçons’ autumn/winter 2012/2013 collection featured voluminous, oversized, cartoon-like garments.

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Design

Different angle: Club shapes up with redesign

Different angle: Club shapes up with redesign