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This is the rhythm of the light – Meet the crowdfunded Brightly Light Toolkit

Design Wanted

It’s basically a series of modular controllers that connect to various sources, allowing users to easily dictate rhythms, patterns and colour. As creative technologists, we are passionate about making technology accessible to all artists and creatives — a canvas rather than an obstacle.

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Is Art Nouveau making a comeback? Here’s a design guide, just in case…

Design Wanted

Not limited to dazzling storefronts, Art Nouveau was an artistic movement that flourished in Paris in the 1890s , touching everything from architecture and design to the decorative and fine arts. Art Nouveau is an elaborate aesthetic showcasing floral patterns , curves, linear designs, and elegant silhouettes, among other characteristics.

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Alex Cochrane Architects designs shops to "embrace the elegant proportions" of National Portrait Gallery

Dezeen

We repeated the shape of these soaring arches around the room creating a rhythm so all the arches, both old and new, became of a singular and familiar language," Cochrane said. We explored different colours, settling on a punchy yellow that we called 'Starling's Yellow' due to the commercial director's love for this colour."

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Neo/craft reexamines traditional materials with striking effect

Design Wanted

Berlin is the centre for artists and designers in Germany…[It] gives me the freedom I need to live and create.”. Take the Camo tables, for example, which are intentionally illusive, combining marble , glass and brass in three different forms and heights inspired by a camouflage pattern.

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A tribute: How Issey Miyake changed the way we saw and wore fashion

Inside Retail

Miyake arrived in Paris shortly after Kenzo’s “ Jungle Jap ” clothes had made waves, with their bright colours and unexpected patterns based partly on Japanese artistic traditions. Computer-generated jacquard weaving creates subtle patterns only truly registered by closer looking. Japanese fashion revolution.

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