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Marketing & Branding

Wabi Sabi

Notions of transience and imperfection, which dominate Japanese aesthetic tradition, are giving rise to a new design direction in packaging that challenges perceptions of beauty with highly tactile, rough and raw surfaces and expressive, unpolished mark-making.

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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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Design

House work: RCA project explores home hacking

London – Royal College of Art Design Products graduate David Steiner is presenting his In House project at Show RCA. The collection explores the concept of hacking kitchen appliances to create a home factory.

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Design

Paris treasure: Les Cloches designed as a narrative

Paris – Designer José Lévy has created the interior for Les Cloches brasserie in Saint Germain that forms a narrative encompassing visiting neighbours, tourists and friends.

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Europe

Made in China: Coffee maker is purely tasteful

Made in China: Coffee maker is purely tasteful

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Design

Design surgery: Tied stools are bound to work

Design surgery: Tied stools are bound to work

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LATAM

Turning the tables: Building site ingenuity inspires upcycled furniture

Turning the tables: Building site ingenuity inspires upcycled furniture

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Retail

Travel & Hospitality: Notable Seed stories from 2009

Travel & Hospitality: Notable Seed stories from 2009

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APAC

Most wanted: Boutique gets Rough Luxe touch

Most wanted: Boutique gets Rough Luxe touch