Design&Trends
In recent decades, design has contaminated a number of sectors of creative work. This series focuses on the scenarios of future trends, investigating their infinite expressive potential through issues of contemporary relevance and discussions with international designers. A window on the future, to understand and describe how much the world of design is changing, from techniques to new materials, from interiors to installations, from experimentation to contamination with art. In the final analysis, a section all about forecasting and trendsetting in design.
19-09-2022
Unno Gallery: “Latin American design in connection with native cultures”
A digital gallery allows two young Mexican creative artists to identify and promote authentic Latin American design: valuable handmade collectors’ items, simple and enigmatic, designed by creative young designers who have a direct relationship with their native land and its original...
15-09-2022
Draga & Aurel: transparency is an attitude
Draga Obradovic and Aurel K. Basedow, who have joined forces in the creative partnership Draga & Aurel, come from a background in the arts but work in design, drawing on Aurel’s talent for working with wood and Draga’s textile design skills. Their production is now veering back in the direction of art, with unique furniture collections interpreting the colours and reflections of...
12-09-2022
3D-printed auxetic shoes by Wertel Oberfell constantly adapt to the shape of the foot
German design firm Wertel Oberfell, which has spent years conducting research into auxetic structures - i.e. structures which expand when placed under force - has recently completed development of a model of shoe which, despite its classic shape, is capable of adapting perfectly to the shape of the foot at all times. This will be the firm’s first application of auxetic structures in the fashion...
08-09-2022
Celebration and catastrophe in the ceramics of Diego Cibelli
Naples throughout history - as well as in its modern-day form - is the rich, fertile ground fuelling the work of Diego Cibelli, a ceramic artist who draws inspiration from objects, homes, celebrations and domestic habits to create new stories, intermingling the bittersweetness of the everyday with the nobility of...