Design Directions

Translating consumer trends into actionable designs, colour palettes and materials.

Desert Dreams

In Saudi Arabia, desert landscapes are fast becoming catalysts for architectural reinvention

Design Directions

Implicit Inclusivity

Designers are recognising the needs of disabled consumers, creating assistive products that are reduced to their most essential elements, with mini...

Technology : Design : Fashion

Design Directions

Johanna Lundberg and Nate van der Ende: Interactive Design

The graphic designer and web developer create exploratory interactive experiences that abandon conventional website functions and formats.

Digital : Design : Technolgy

Design Directions

Milan Salone 2017: Design Directions

At this year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile, designers unashamedly celebrated low-value materials and interpreted shifting energy fields by cr...

Milan Salone 2017 : Marni : EDHV

Design Directions

New Consciousness

Responsibility is being rebranded. As businesses apply long-term thinking, a vibrant visual landscape is emerging that inspires action and optimism.

Sustainability : Long Term Thinking : Visual Communication

Design Directions

Grey London

Grey London has embarked on a major rebranding to honour its founders and promote diversity.

Grey London : Brexit : Inclusivity

Design Directions

Sideways Dictionary

Sideways Dictionary is a new dictionary that simplifies digital jargon.

Google : The Dislocated World : Technology

Design Directions

Grow Up

Mercedes-Benz’s largest marketing campaign to date explores the complexities of being a young adult.

Mercedes-Benz : Neo-kinship : Adulting

Design Directions

Autumn/Winter 2017 Fashion Week: Part 2

In the second part of our autumn/winter 2017 design directions report, LS:N Global examines the changing notions of femininity and the continuing f...

The Dislocated World : Prada : AW 17

Design Directions

The Modist

The Modist is a new online destination for luxury modest wear.

Modest Wear : Luxury : E-Commerce

Design Directions

Halo

In an industry first, start-up coffee brand Halo offers consumers a premium-quality product in a sustainable package with its biodegradable capsule.

Halo : Coffee : Sustainability

Design Directions

Autumn/Winter 2017 Fashion Week: Part 1

This season, designers challenged traditional notions of luxury and collaborated with nostalgia-evoking brands. LS:N Global outlines the key design...

Autumn Winter 2017 : MM6 Maison Margiela : Subversive Luxury

Design Directions

Delete

Interactive exhibition Delete asked children to consider the boundary between the digital and physical worlds.

DELETE : The Sharded Self : Awakening Tech

Design Directions

Raw Movement

Inspired by human movement and touch, wellness interiors and packaging designers are embracing a raw aesthetic, experimenting with primitive shap...

Human Movement : Blok London : Boutique Fitness

Design Directions

Did you mean MailChimp?

In its first major campaign, email marketing service MailChimp is leading by example.

MailChimp : Droga5 : Omnichannel

Design Directions

Leta Sobierajski: Art direction

Art director Leta Sobierajski uses the body as an abstract and inanimate prop to create surprising and subversive scenography.

Leta Sobierajski : RUH : Art Direction

Design Directions

SFF 2017: Design Directions

Designers at this year’s show presented highly emotive objects and interiors that featured tactile finishes, block-colour spaces and architectural ...

Stockholm Furniture Fair 2017 : Interior Design : Painterly Primitive

Design Directions

MK2VR

Virtual reality is transformed into a social experience in Parisian cinema chain MK2’s new space.

MK2VR : VR : BNP Paribas

Design Directions

Ripple

A wearable support network for people living far away from friends and family.

Ripple : New Bricolage Living : Parenting

Design Directions

Fluid Capital

The move towards a cashless society is inspiring a new visual language around financial values, transactions and the appearance of money.

Finance : Cashless Futures : Snask

Design Directions

Dotdot

Brand consultancy Wolff Olins has created a visual identity for ZigBee Alliance’s Dotdot, a universal language for Internet of Things devices.

Wolff Olins : Branding : The Internet Of Things

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