Author Info

2024/25 Design Direction, PLANT. Applications in Accessories, Textiles, Bathrooms, Retail and Furniture.

Regional designers shaping the 2024/25 design directions through craft, innovation and cultural perspectives.

With lives lived increasingly online, reality is in danger of becoming subjective. The CMF directions for the 2025 design direction HACK.

Finding beauty in the quiet simplicity of the unadorned and the everyday. The CMF directions for the 2025 design direction STILL LIFE.

Merging climate anxiety, nature symbolism, feminism and folklore to reaffirm culture and identity. The CMF directions for the 2025 design direction SOUL

The narrative around climate change and environmental protection is shifting from an exercise in deprivation to one of positive action. The CMF directions for the 2025 design direction LAND.

Metals of antiquity, a term coined by Plato, was given to early metallurgical discoveries made by people of the past. Now artists and designers are exploring this ancient knowledge.

Design Directions 2025/26 Part One: PAY & CHANCE | Colour Now: 2024/25 GRAIN & MINE | Focus on Surfaces.

The way we categorise and name colours varies significantly depending on circumstance, experience and location. This essay explores word-colour connections and psychology, along with the impending impact AI will have on our insight into text and colours.