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This year’s London Design Biennale theme, The Great Game: Remapping Collaborations, suggested one possible response to an increasingly protectionist world; working together to achieve positive change.

Design Miami/Basel is a useful illustration of the soft boundaries between design and fine art. This compact, focused show delivered on key directions in collectable design.

As landfills bulge, not just with fast fashion, but also with furniture, a sense of disquiet is growing.

Recently, several enterprising design houses have avoided exhibition halls and commercial spaces, instead opting to show collections in apartments. Could this new domesticity be a sign of fatigue with status and a desire to make design more relatable?

Artists and designers are pushing their imaginations to the limit with unconventional explorations of material and form; the results mislead the viewer, creating a world of intrigue and subverted expectations.

2024 Design Direction, PROVENANCE. Applications in Furniture, Textiles, Retail, Rugs and Accessories

Design Directions 2025 Part Two: STILL LIFE & HACK | Colour Now: 2024 PROVENANCE & SUBMERGE | Focus on Art

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

Bio-design, invasive species and material symbiosis. The CMF directions for the 2024/25 design direction PLANT.