CMF

E-waste, mined materials and artificial geologies. The CMF directions for the 2024/25 design direction MINE.

Craft, folk storytelling and agricultural traditions. The CMF directions for the 2024/25 design direction GRAIN.

Could designers play a role in finding solutions to the food waste crisis?

Key themes, materials and colours from Milan Design Week 2023

As our world becomes increasingly digitised and complex, architects, interior designers and artisans are retreating from this overload, adopting a stone-age simplicity by turning their attention to the ultimate analogue material, stone.

As non-renewable resources become ever more depleted, the irrevocable, environmental and ethical damage synthetic dyes are causing is leading designers to rethink the future of dyeing by recalibrating their relationship with nature.

Whether it was sustainability, references to nature or even a little healthy hit of maximalism, a sheer diversity of surface choices was the defining feature of this year’s Surface Design Show.

Liquid qualities, buoyant materials and submerged aesthetics. The CMF directions for the 2024 design direction SUBMERGE.

Craft, digital tracking and local materials. The CMF directions for the 2024 design direction PROVENANCE.