The Future Laboratory

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Design Miami/ 2015

A strong global influence was clear at this year’s Design Miami/ 2015, as designers built deep cultural and environmental narratives into their work.

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Design

Milan 2014: Part 2

In the second part of our report on the key design directions from last month’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, LS:N Global reveals how designers re-interpreted optics and processes from the natural world and looked retrospectively to ancient times for inspiration.

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MENA

This rocks: Stone showroom given gallery looks

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Fashion

Precious Precision

LS:N Global recently featured Craft in The Anthropocene, a graduate project by Yesenia Thibault-Picazo that imagines what sedimentary-level materials might look like in the future. Since then, we have noted a heightened interest in natural minerals and geology, with designers replicating geodes and layers while retaining a man-made, clean-cut…

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Marketing & Branding

Primal cream: Designer makes skincare more manly

Eindhoven – Eindhoven Design Academy student Annemiek van der Beek created Primal Skin, a make-up range for men, for her graduation project. On display during Dutch Design Week, the collection features industrially inspired mineral make-up that makes cosmetics more accessible for men.

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Food & Drink

Silver service: Angular tableware combines hi-lo

Seoul – French fine tableware specialist Christofle has collaborated with Korean designer JinSik Kim to create a series of mixed-material plates and tableware, inspired by money.