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Browsing Primitive

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Health, Wellness & Sport

Raw Movement

Inspired by human movement and touch, wellness interiors and packaging designers are embracing a raw aesthetic, experimenting with primitive shapes, expressive markings and nude undertones.

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Fashion

Spring/summer 2017 Fashion Week: Part 1

Messages of female empowerment and irreverent DIY embellishments were among the themes and treatments presented by designers this season. LS:N Global outlines the defining design directions from the spring/summer 2017 Fashion Week shows.

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Design

Cracking work: Breaking new ground in glassmaking

Miami – Designer Ilkka Suppanen’s delicate glass structures look as if they might break with one touch because his vessels are created from broken glass that has been re-assembled using an innovative melting technique.

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Luxury

Tactile Hardware

Designers are exploring the softer side of technology by using tactile, raw and primitive materials and finishes to produce electronics items.

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Europe

Timber

It takes a Frenchman to call flatpack furniture ‘poetic’. ‘Boring’, perhaps. ‘Maddening’, most definitely. Not, as French designer Vincent Tarisien puts it, ‘poetic and playful’. Yet Timber, Tarisien’s range of self-assembly furniture, truly deserves the epithet. His Master’s project for Swiss design school École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne…

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Marketing & Branding

Painterly Primitive

A new wave of designers is experimenting with primitive marking and making methods, influenced by the human touch.

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Europe

Rocky crockery: 1882 range has heart of stone

Rocky crockery: 1882 range has heart of stone

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Europe

In the line of fire: Owens unveils a dark side

Paris – There was a dramatic opening to the Rick Owens autumn/winter 2012 show in Paris, as the set burst into flames and models emerged clad in dark capes.

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Europe

Primitive twist: The shape of dining in Kiev

Primitive twist: The shape of dining in Kiev