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Resilient Coating Lowers Temperatures in Extreme Climates

Resilient Coating Lowers Temperatures in Extreme Climates Cooling Coating for Hot Climates In 2018, global temperatures look set to reach record highs for the fourth consecutive year (Carbon Brief, 2018). As reports emerge of buildings and infrastructural elements melting in the heat, designers need to specify more resilient materials that prolong product lifespans and protect people. We look at one potential solution.

Colour & Materials

Crafting Modern Connections

Crafting Modern Connections Crafting Modern Connections In a shifting domestic landscape, creating social cohesion becomes a commercial opportunity. Design will play a critical role in helping consumers feel rooted to a place, and connecting them with neighbours and loved ones. We explore the aesthetics, technological innovations and architecture that will build bonds in the future home.

Industrial Design

The Maiyet Collective’s Concept Store: Reshaping Ethical Lux

The Maiyet Collective’s Concept Store: Reshaping Ethical Lux This Store Reshapes Ethical Luxe Luxury ethical fashion label Maiyet is behind The Maiyet Collective, a new concept store opening in October inside a London members’ club dedicated to positive social impact. It will feature talks, activities and over 50 like-minded brands – just not its own.

Vegetable Waste is Being Used to Boost Materials

Vegetable Waste is Being Used to Boost Materials Veggie-Waste Materials Sustainable thinking for the future is driving developments in enhanced and optimised materials and products. Vegetable waste is one stream being explored to provide stronger, more efficient and eco-friendlier alternatives. We profile two examples.

Colour & Materials

LDF 2018: Colour & Materials

LDF 2018: Colour & Materials LDF 2018: Colour & Materials We round up the most exciting colour and material directions that emerged from London Design Festival, including key colour applications, processing techniques and finishes that will impact the industry. This year saw a strong focus on plastic, progressive recycled materials and immersive colour experiences.

London Design Festival 2018

Retail City Guide: NYC, October 2018

Retail City Guide: NYC, October 2018 Retail City Guide: NYC, Oct 2018 October in New York is brimming with fresh department store concepts and community-focused retail hubs for Gen Zers, along with a luxury lifestyle pivot for the Seaport District. Elsewhere, hotels are installing art exhibits, while museums take a stand on hot-button issues. Stylus rounds up the month's essential edit.

Retail City Guides

Retail City Guide: London, October 2018

Retail City Guide: London, October 2018 Retail City Guide: London, Oct 2018 October arrives with an influx of apartment-style fashion formats, a Heatherwick-designed shopping street called Coal Drops Yard, and new Soho streetwear stores. There's also a slew of exciting art exhibitions including the Turner Prize 2018, the annual Frieze Art Fair, and a Barbican show celebrating creative artist relationships.

Retail City Guides

Neighbourhood App Nextdoor Opens Platform to Police

Neighbourhood App Nextdoor Opens Platform to Police Police Join Neighbourhood Watch App Neighbourhood app Nextdoor has launched a new public service platform that allows councils, fire departments and the police to interact with their local communities.

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The Middle-Eastern Design Boom

The Middle-Eastern Design Boom The Middle-Eastern Design Boom The opening of the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, Dubai’s appointment as a Creative City of Design by Unesco and its role as host of Expo 2020 are driving commercial and creative opportunity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). As a growing number of design weeks place the region’s design sector on the global stage, we round up the trends you need to know.

Middle East & North Africa Top 10: Colour & Materials

Middle East & North Africa Top 10: Colour & Materials Middle East & North Africa Top 10 Progressive designers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are layering the familiar vernacular of traditional crafts and patterns with the latest technology to make digital manufacturing more accessible. Our top 10, highlighted here, are chosen for their fresh approach to colour and material.

Colour & Materials

AI Algorithm Identifies How City Structure Affects Health

AI Algorithm Identifies How City Structure Affects Health Is Your City Making You Fat? A machine-learning algorithm has been developed to estimate obesity levels in US cities without directly assessing the medical data of inhabitants. The researchers hope their findings can help future cities improve the health and wellbeing of their residents.

Consumer Lifestyle

Must-See Retail Spaces: Top 20

Must-See Retail Spaces: Top 20 Must-See Retail Spaces: Top 20 Stylus showcases the most impressive physical stores to open this year, representing the very best in contemporary retail design. From beautiful concepts to exceptional experiences, we highlight 20 great spaces from around the world.

London Design Festival 2018: Preview

London Design Festival 2018: Preview London Design Festival 18: Preview With more than 400 presentations, exhibitions and installations – including several essential trade fairs – London Design Festival (September 15-23) is a giant on the professional and public design calendar. Our editors have done the legwork and listed their top picks of not-to-miss events. Follow our team on the ground via @wearestylus and look out for our five reports, publishing on Tuesday October 2.

10 Corso Como Anchors NY’s Next-Gen Urban Mall

10 Corso Como Anchors NY’s Next-Gen Urban Mall 10 Corso Como Lands in NY Milanese store 10 Corso Como, which famously blends art, fashion and food, has opened its first US shop in New York’s South Street Seaport – now rebranded as the Seaport District. The location is significant, with the former tourist spot vying to become a next-gen urban mall.

Asia: Malls Repurpose Limbo Spaces as Family Activity Parks

Asia: Malls Repurpose Limbo Spaces as Family Activity Parks Playscapes: Malls Add Family Parks As experience-hungry millennials come of age and start having children themselves, shopping centres are evolving ever more thoroughly into leisure spots for families. Two in Asia have repurposed under-utilised space as in-store amusement parks – playfully combining entertainment and education.

Material Direction: Resurfacing Ceramics

Material Direction: Resurfacing Ceramics Resurfacing Ceramics An appreciation of natural qualities and hand-formed processes is triggering a resurgence of interest in ceramic – one of the oldest man-made materials derived from the earth. Creatives are revitalising the material through experimental applications, digital methods and resourceful sustainability initiatives. We uncover the latest ceramic trends, spanning homeware, surface design and architecture.

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Retail City Guide: NYC, September 2018

Retail City Guide: NYC, September 2018 Retail City Guide: NYC, Sept 18 The month of September in New York sees the arrival of niche multi-brand retailers and international names offering affordable basics, plus an array of new restaurants that are about more than just dining. Meanwhile, museums tilt towards retail, with exhibits that merge art and commerce. Stylus selects the highlights.

Retail City Guides

Retail City Guide: London, September 2018

Retail City Guide: London, September 2018 Retail City Guide: London, Sept 18 London is in a creative mood this September, courtesy of the annual London Design Festival and a plethora of inspirational openings. Highlights include two smart travel accessories stores, a wellness beauty clinic, a lab-grown diamond store, and a fascinating retrospective of Italian architect Renzo Piano.

Retail City Guides

Norwegian Town Places Data Centre at Heart of the Community

Norwegian Town Places Data Centre at Heart of the Community Energy-Positive Community Living Norwegian prototype town Lyseparken will place a data centre at the heart of its infrastructure, generating energy for local homes and businesses through waste heat, and using the space inside as a community hub.

Consumer Lifestyle

Luxury Youth: Selling to Gen Z

Luxury Youth: Selling to Gen Z Luxury Youth: Selling to Gen Z Are luxury brands doing enough to prepare for Gen Z shoppers? These consumers, currently aged nine to 23, could redefine what luxury means. We report on how industry leaders are planning for the future.

The Outdoor Club Where Owners Can Socialise with Their Dogs

The Outdoor Club Where Owners Can Socialise with Their Dogs Now You Can Socialise with Your Dog BarkPark, an outdoor clubhouse where dog owners can socialise with their pets, will open in Nashville this September. Created by Bark, the company behind the BarkBox dog-treat subscription service, BarkPark combines a dog-friendly space with social activities for owners.

Consumer Lifestyle

The Sensory Opportunity

The Sensory Opportunity The Sensory Opportunity Consumers are craving heightened sensory stimulation in all kinds of interactions. To engage with them on this deeper level, explore the lucrative sensory opportunities that will increasingly impact every industry – from wellbeing and beauty to automotive and entertainment. In this three-part Spotlight Trend, we unwrap the lifestyle motivations, product innovations and engagement strategies driving this all-encompassing and transformative trend.

Media & Marketing

Insight & Innovation

The Sensory Opportunity: Lifestyle

The Sensory Opportunity: Lifestyle Sensory Lifestyle A new wave of consumers are chasing multisensory experiences that enhance their wellbeing, increase their sense of belonging, and offer an exhilarating escape from digital overload. We reveal how to exceed their expectations, whatever their needs may be.

Consumer Lifestyle

Consumer Attitudes

The Sensory Opportunity: Product

The Sensory Opportunity: Product Sensory Product As humans, we have an inherent desire for stimulating experiences that can be achieved by exploring the world, connecting with others and feeling joy, wonder and delight. This report outlines the thrilling potential of inclusive, multisensory design, and exposes ways to extend the sensory richness of products, environments and media.

Colour & Materials

Insight & Innovation

The Sensory Opportunity: Engagement

The Sensory Opportunity: Engagement Sensory Engagement Fragmented screen attention and a proliferation of audio interfaces mean brands are becoming ever more invisible. We uncover how advances in sensory communication tech empower digital marketers to move beyond the visual to reclaim audiences' attention and reinforce an emotional connection with their customers.

Media & Marketing

Insight & Innovation

Materials for Vegan-Friendly Lifestyles

Materials for Vegan-Friendly Lifestyles Vegan-Friendly Materials With the vegan movement gaining momentum, we look beyond food, apparel and beauty at new opportunities for positive products in homeware, architecture and electronics. We also uncover the cruelty-free materials reframing design for the conscientious consumer.

Colour & Materials

Reframing Weddings: Food, Favours & Festivities

Reframing Weddings: Food, Favours & Festivities Reframing Weddings From brunch-inspired feasts to seasonal cakes, a new informality is emerging as wedding couples dismantle traditions and craft fresh customs which better reflect their personalities. Food and drink are used to forge emotional connections, while details – from invites to favours – serve as a means of articulating their specific story.

Food, Beverage & Hospitality

Food & Beverage

Clare: the Paint Brand Empowering DIY Home Renovators Empowering DIY Home Renovators As explored in Here Come the Homebodies, consumers are spending more time and money on home improvements. In the US alone, annual spending is expected to reach $350bn by 2019 (JCHS, 2018). Building on this momentum is Clare – a new online paint company adopting algorithms and a ‘less is more’ approach to empower DIYers.

Interior Styling

Rise S/S 20

Rise S/S 20 Rise S/S 20 Rise follows a diverse and progressive generation with a confidence that clever design can reshape the world for the better. Products, clothing and spaces reframe creative expression as a means to communicate personal beliefs, incite social action and affect change.

An evolution of Burst A/W 19/20, Rise explores how user-centric design empowers consumers to become more engaged members of society. The rainbow palette of S/S 20 Colour & Materials Direction Land of Plenty informs a refreshed appreciation of the urban world, transforming waste and information into creative fuel.

Journey S/S 20

Journey S/S 20 Journey S/S 20 Journey rejuvenates crafts to help consumers connect with personal histories and cultural heritage, nourishing emotional bonds with belongings and intimate interactions with tech.

Informed by our S/S 20 Colour Spectrum trends Hands of Time and Botanical Modernism, technology and nature become allies in a quest for preservation, while ideas around crafting new materials from post-consumer waste are evolved from Essence A/W 19/20.

Arouse S/S 20

Arouse S/S 20 Arouse S/S 20 Introspective yet expressive, Arouse instils an appetite for sensorial encounters and thrilling entertainment. Responsive environments and products powered by activated materials propel ergonomics and hospitality design into the next decade.

We advance Captivate’s A/W 19/20 focus on inspiring analogue experiences, and home in on Colour & Material Direction Augmented Space’s regained perspective on what it is to be a human, living on Earth. Arouse offers consumers a new lens through which to see the world.

3 Innovations in 3D Printing for Architecture

3 Innovations in 3D Printing for Architecture 3D Printing For Architecture The symbiosis of technology and craft is triggering a surge in progressive uses for additive manufacturing. Here we round up three concepts in which the capabilities of 3D printing are being pioneered to realise new possibilities in architecture.

Colour & Materials

Architecture & Spaces

Colour S/S 20

Colour S/S 20 Colour S/S 20 Evolving from our Spring/Summer 20/20 Colour Spectrum and Materials Focus, we examine the key hues for our S/S 20 Product Design Directions – Rise, Journey and Arouse.

Colour & Materials

Design Directions S/S 20

Design Directions S/S 20 Design Directions S/S 20 Dissecting developing innovations and breakthrough ideas across furniture, packaging, transport, home accessories and spatial design, we reveal three distinct creative directions to inform commercial product development in Spring/Summer 2020.

Restyling Suburbia

Restyling Suburbia Restyling Suburbia Long seen as bland and boring, American suburbia is transforming. Millennials are flooding in, prompting developers to meet demand for urban-like advantages (think walkability, food halls, co-working spaces, farmers’ markets) and wellness amenities. As suburbs morph to match modern lifestyles, they’re becoming dynamic alternatives to city living – even incubators of innovation.

Consumer Lifestyle

Consumer Attitudes

Harth: Rental Furniture Platform Shaking up Luxury Retail

Harth: Rental Furniture Platform Shaking up Luxury Retail Rental Furniture: The New Luxury Spurred by a lack of resources and real estate, consumers are choosing to ditch home ownership in favour of subscription access to shared housing, communal offices, pooled transport and hired goods. Harth is a luxury rental service for designer homeware that’s shaking up retail to cater to transient, 21st-century lifestyles.

Inflated Floor Mat Boosts Employee Health & Productivity

Inflated Floor Mat Boosts Employee Health & Productivity Mat Boosts Employee Productivity Increasing work hours and growing public concern over wellbeing are driving individuals and businesses to invest in improved office ergonomics. UK designer Joonyeon Jo explores the potential of tactility within this environment to improve both user health and productivity.

Architecture & Spaces

Hotels & Art: Beyond the Painting

Hotels & Art: Beyond the Painting Hotels & Art: Beyond the Painting Hotels are increasingly turning to art as a key element of their guest experience – from immersive art spaces and installations to art as a form of protest. We explore how hotels around the world are taking art off the walls and placing it centre stage to create a stimulating guest experience.

Food, Beverage & Hospitality

Retail City Guide: NYC, August 2018

Retail City Guide: NYC, August 2018 Retail City Guide: NYC, August 2018 This August, New York's retail openings push aside midsummer malaise with shops that exude a holiday atmosphere, boutiques showcasing sophisticated footwear and clothing stores that promote sustainability. Meanwhile, Casper launches a spa with bookable nap nooks and MoMA steps up for summer with a trio of must-see exhibitions.

Retail City Guides

Retail City Guide: London, August 2018

Retail City Guide: London, August 2018 Retail City Guide: London, Aug 2018 This August, a wave of fresh retail concepts attracts millennial in-store traffic with personalisation and experience-focused strategies, while Westfield London shopping mall welcomes the biggest Japanese marketplace in Europe. Meanwhile, exhibition highlights include a journey into the life of South African political icon Nelson Mandela.

Retail City Guides

Soft Sell: The New Retail

Soft Sell: The New Retail Soft Sell: The New Retail Physical retail has to undergo a dramatic transformation to maintain its relevance in the digital age. Forward-thinking retailers are selling softly, emphasising the experience rather than pushing for the sale. Here’s how it can work.

Does London’s Coal Drops Yard Redefine Mall Culture?

Does London’s Coal Drops Yard Redefine Mall Culture? Coal Drops Yard: The Modern Mall? London shopping development Coal Drops Yard, which opens in late October and is located just north of King’s Cross station, seeks to recalibrate what a modern mall can be. It’s an ambitious collective of 60 retailers combining artisanal and progressive brands with iconic names that aim to define the zeitgeist and apply new soft-sell retail strategies.

Material Direction: Reframing Wood

Material Direction: Reframing Wood Material Direction: Reframing Wood The natural nuance, character and sensory properties of timber make it the perfect partner to the emerging needs of consumers today. We explore the ways in which mass timber constructions, wood-derived products emerging from the lab and improved processing techniques are opening the material up to new and exciting applications.

Colour & Materials

CMF Industry View: Kitchens

CMF Industry View: Kitchens CMF Industry View: Kitchens As the role of the kitchen adapts to contemporary habits and fluid lifestyles, design options are becoming more refined and inviting. We round up the key aesthetic qualities and colour, material and finish (CMF) trends emerging across the sector, with inspirational projects from Boffi, Scic and Caesarstone.

Colour & Materials

FutureFest 2018: Tech for a Human-First Tomorrow

FutureFest 2018: Tech for a Human-First Tomorrow FutureFest 2018 As we near the close of the decade, now is the time to assess how the allure of new technologies compares to their reality. The overarching theme of FutureFest (London, July 6-7), the festival powered by British innovation foundation Nesta, was ‘human-first’ thinking. Over the course of two days, bright minds explored how to ensure that technology functions to the optimum benefit of consumers’ needs.

Does Harvey Nichols Know What Luxury Fashion Consumers Want?

Does Harvey Nichols Know What Luxury Fashion Consumers Want? Harvey Nichols’ Boutique Approach Department stores are facing a challenging time. To maintain its allure among other intriguing ventures, British retailer Harvey Nichols has refurbished its womenswear department to cater to modern luxury consumers.

Simple Design Tweaks Give Plugs New Commercial Potential

Simple Design Tweaks Give Plugs New Commercial Potential Design Tweaks for Commercial Impact As new technology emerges, designers are reconsidering everyday household items – creating innovative updates that offer improved functionality and respond to shifting consumer habits. Here, we explore two projects that illustrate how a simple design tweak to a conventional electrical plug can have an impact on practicality and user experience.

MatchesFashion’s Hybrid Luxury London Space

MatchesFashion’s Hybrid Luxury London Space New Retail: Luxury Meets Events A pioneering multifunctional luxury townhouse, 5 Carlos Place, is being opened by fashion e-commerce company MatchesFashion in the heart of upscale Mayfair in London this September. Here’s a preview of what will make it special.

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