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Browsing Texture

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Fashion

Home furnishings with an optimistic outlook

With lockdowns driving global interest in home improvements and interior furnishings, Ikea and fashion designer Zandra Rhodes are examining how design can bring optimism home.

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Marketing & Branding

Breathable branding

Singapore – Machineast has developed an audio-visual project for Uniqlo Singapore focusing on the brand’s AIRism fibre.

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Design

The consumer collection

New York – The Domestic Appeal design exhibition examines humanity’s relationship with household items.

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Retail

Material Mischief

Designers are translating the aesthetic language of desire and seduction into playful objects and spaces. Indulgent materials and bodily forms offer a sensory antidote to the hyper-sexualised digital world.

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Marketing & Branding

Gastronomy Fetish

Just when we thought we couldn’t stomach any more food porn, creative industries are raising their game with a new blend of erotic exploration and culinary culture.

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Marketing & Branding

Gen Neutral

The rise of Neutral Culture is informing new visual typologies across the lifestyle sectors. Creatives are rejecting the traditional dichotomy of feminine versus masculine and inventing a gender-neutral language of sensuality.

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Marketing & Branding

Malt makeover

Monterrey – Mexico’s first speciality coffee brand, Bueno de Alegoria, has raised the bar for caffeine-free coffee.

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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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Marketing & Branding

Milan 2014: Part 1

Texture and surface design were explored through material manipulation at this year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile