Editorial

Swedish design studio Front has managed to pull off an enviable balance, producing highly innovative, experimental work alongside commercially successful projects for some of the biggest names in design.

We cannot have colour without light. Here, we look into the technical aspects of working with colour in different artificial lights and asks the question, how does lighting affect our perception?

Made from a mineral mined as early as the 7th millennium BC, then employed as an indicator of wealth and status in Renaissance art, Ultramarine was once valued higher than gold.

Here we set out to discover if online colour palette generators are useful tools for colour professionals or simply a shortcut for Instagram content creators.

A three-year pause has proved the ideal chance for reinvention, and Stockholm Furniture Fair has seized that opportunity, with a slew of fresh initiatives and even a streamlined name.

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.