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Browsing tactility

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Marketing & Branding

Lucy Hardcastle: Creative Direction

Creative director Lucy Hardcastle uses a cross-disciplinary approach to achieve a hyper-real aesthetic that blurs the boundaries between the physical and digital realms.

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Marketing & Branding

Finger-licking good

Global – KFC has embraced the weird and wonderful world of ASMR with a special film from the Colonel himself.

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Micro Trends

Visual ASMR

Can slow motion make your heart beat faster? Digital creatives are drawing on sensory phenomena such as ASMR to develop a new type of visual fetishism.

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Fashion

Skin-sensual

Designers across a range of disciplines are drawing inspiration from the sensual and irregular qualities of the natural human form.

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Fashion

Central Saint Martins Textile Futures Work in Progress Show 2014

Renowned for their innovative approach to material experimentation, the MA Textile Futures students at Central Saint Martins develop unique materials, concepts and processes. As thought-leaders within this field, they explore environmental and global cultural themes, with the projects often focusing on sustainability.

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Technology

Pencil pushers: Smart stylus makes design simple

New York, Seattle – Design developers at FiftyThree have produced the Pencil stylus, a digitally enabled, wooden pencil that lends an intimate tactility to makers, creators and innovators working on iPad tablets.

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Retail

Soft touch: Clothing displayed on foam shelves

Soft touch: Clothing displayed on foam shelves

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Design

Furniture futures: Art that doubles as a seat

Tokyo – A new series of canvases by design studio YOY doubles as art and furniture, making them ideal for small living spaces.

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Fashion

RCA and CSM graduate show review

Graduates from the Royal College of Art and Central St Martins have presented a compelling range of work at this year’s shows. Young designers on courses from textiles to innovation design engineering have created thought-provoking pieces displaying uninhibited design, encompassing themes such as Self-Quantification and Hand Made High Tech, and…