Trend 8: “Let me land”
My sharpest example and where I found it:
• Wooden massage floor from flooring designer “Mafi”
• Carpet from the hotel Schindlerhof in Nuernberg, Germany
SCIENCE OF THE TIME’S WORLD TREND REPORT 2011/2012:
Organic rules.
Over the last few years, designers were trying to add imperfection to their ‘perfect’ designs, since the ‘perfect’ designs were generated by computer-driven tools and software programs,…
Design with Ambition.
Brussels Hills on the Beach Project is a project by Boguslaw Witowski that contains a plan to architectonicly reshape the earth’s crust…
Designclient : Mother Nature (2010: year of biodiversity)
The result of the Copenhagen summit was, whatever was decided, not good enough. The last years, there has been a clear…
Design a disposable eternity.
RosAria by Joe Velluto is a disposable rosary, made of pluriball (recyclable polyethylene). While the churchgoer is praying, he says the…
Design with basic building blocks. Nano-scale.
Designers are appropriating their own surroundings from big (we’ll come back to that with the upcoming #2) to the smallest way possible. Like…
Giving power to the consumer
XYZ is a designlabel/initiative that let 95% of the product ideas come from the clients, with the remaining 5% generated in-house.…
Someone is Watching & Designing Over You
Technology that shows us where we are has now become ubiquitous. Google through its Google Maps and Google Earth websites realized that…
Female Conception
The visibility of women in the design world is increasing. More and more through exciting design they’re claiming the space that they deserve. The design savvy of…
Let’s do good.
Designing isn’t only about creating, it’s also about changing the world for the good. Designers like Ninette Murk (founder of
The number crunchers are the new black.
We are currently living in a society overflowing with data. We’re being surveyed and are surveying more than ever before. The world…
New understandings of luxury are invading every sector and every branch. Doing more with less and the mentality altering phenonemon the worldwide recession is supposed to be is hitting (almost)…
urban centered creativity
Whether is it for or by a city: design helps to upgrade the image of that city.
After virtual reality: real virtuality. A with 3D-modeling designed backdrop by Thom Faulders called ‘Deformscape’ is making people visually losing the reality that…
Colour Me Joyful
Adding colour to your design equals happier people. It’s as easy as it seems. The Danish Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo 2010 is given a…
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