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 [...]
In this edition of the Seymourpowell TV series, Seymourpowell’s Mariel Brown and Karen Rosenkranz from Seymourpowell’s Research, Trend and Strategy Team, take a wide-angle look at the highlights of Milan 2012 and explore the broader relationships between cutting-edge design and the cultural trends which surround them. Thanks to the V&A, Contagious Magazine and Dezeen for [...]
For designers and trend researchers alike, all roads lead to Milan. A lighthouse which illuminates the future of design, Milan is both geographically and aesthetically the centre of the emerging design universe – the cultural zeitgeist forms here first. In the report below, Mariel Brown and Karen Rosenkranz from Seymourpowell’s Research, Trend and Strategy Team, [...]
Seymourpowell’s latest Newsletter is now available to view online. The new e-book contains recent thought pieces by a number of senior team members from across the business, as well as Seymourpowell events and collaborations, product launches, speaking engagements and a spotlight section on a number of recent research trips undertaken by the team this year. [...]
“For designers and trend researchers alike, all roads lead to Milan. A lighthouse which illuminates the future of design, Milan is both geographically and aesthetically the centre of the emerging design universe; the cultural zeitgeist forms here first” – Richard Seymour On Wednesday 20th April, Seymourpowell hosted a media event, ‘Milan in Perspective’ at the [...]
In April 2010, Mariel Brown and Zoe Stavrou joined the multitude of design lovers heading to Milan for the 32nd edition of the International Salone del Mobile. They observed a gentle progression and softening of last year’s ‘crunched’ themes and a growing sense of both nostalgia and the need for escapism. They felt there was [...]
