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Softer and more forgiving than black, sophisticated and sober, navy’s ubiquity gives it a pleasing and reassuring anonymity. If there is such thing as a fail-safe choice, then navy is it.

Design Directions 2025/26 Part Two: SELF & FOREVER | Colour Now: 2024/25 PLAIN & PLANT | Focus on Spring Shows.

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.

This year, hand-made tile specialist Bert & May is celebrating 10 years in business. Creative Director and Founder Lee Thornley talks to Tamsin Kingswell about sustainability, colour and the importance of forever design.