We would like to invite you or your colleagues to contribute a written online comment on “design trends from the Milan fair” in our LinkedIn discussion group Seymourpowell Design and Innovation Network. The forum explores the views of thinkers, innovators, decision-makers, and professionals about possible solutions to make the world better by design. This month’s discussion [...]
Last month, the design industry converged on Milan for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile (AKA the Milan Furniture Fair) – without a doubt one of the most important events in the design calendar. This year, Seymourpowell got together with design magazine FX, and on 25 April, we hosted a special drinks reception back in London [...]
By Sarah Johnson, design researcher at Seymourpowell. As we enter into the age of the information economy, ‘Big Data’ has become big news. No matter what problem we need to solve, ‘Big Data’ will have the answers. It will help us be healthier, greener, smarter, more efficient and most importantly happier. Yet no one really [...]
Image Source In the March/April edition of Interior Design Today, Seymourpowell design & CMF researcher Chloe Amos-Edkins discusses furnishing trends form far-flung places. In the UK we have a long history of mixing and matching inspiration from cultures from around the globe and assimilating it into our interior furnishings style. Today is no exception – [...]
Belgian designer and engineer Carl de Smet featured on the BBC today in a special pre-Milan Fair preview. Carl is using shape memory materials to really exciting effect by creating self assembling furniture that grows from a compact form to a pre defined design in just a few minutes. The material is a shape memory [...]
Matthew Cockerill, Associate Design Director, Seymourpowell The democratisation of product development is on its way. That’s certainly what seems to be happening according to the press. The advent of affordable 3D printers and maker culture has started to show us opportunities for putting the design and development of products into the domestic environment, even for [...]
Seymourpowell’s design and CMF researcher Chloe Amos-Edkins and design researcher Sarah Johnson appeared in January’s edition of Interior Design Today. Their report below reveals some key trends in storage which has them thinking inside and outside the box. Image Credit With the overwhelming amount of ‘stuff’ people now possess, consumers are suffering from a sense [...]
4 Key Lighting Trends Seymourpowell’s Design and CMF researcher Chloe Amos-Edkins appeared in the 2012 November/December edition of Interior Design Today. In her report below, Chloe discusses four key trends inspiring lighting designs for 2013. Image credit Alluring imperfection We’ve seen a raised interest in the hand crafted over recent years, and as a result [...]
‘Designing for the differences,’ the ninth video in this ‘Design Insights’ series, features Richard Seymour, co-founder and design director of Seymourpowell, discussing the importance of gender differences for design. Genders are equal, Seymour says, but that doesn’t mean they are the same. “We are fundamentally, biologically, anatomically different. We think in a different way. We [...]
India In February, Seymourpowell design researcher Sarah Johnson was lucky enough to visit Mumbai and Delhi for a research trip. Below are a few places she visited and would highly recommend to others… Bombay Electric Image Credit Bombay Electric in Mumbai is “India’s first concept store” and wouldn’t feel out of place in London’s hip [...]
