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Jörg Hugo’s bubble-like lighting tests the boundaries of hand-blown glass

Design Wanted

A recent boom in creative glassmaking has sparked a trend in unique, statement lighting like Jörg Hugo’s “Lightbodies” series, a collection of sculptural pendants that challenge the materiality of glass. The individual elements of the GLASS BODY 04 reflect an asymmetrical balance of compressive and tensile forces,” says Hugo.

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Brand Creative’s Ixora retail project is a delicate balance of history, nature, and science

Design Middleeast

Keeping the experience seamless and premium meant rethinking the point of sale area so that all forms of technology and clutter were cleverly hidden within joinery designs. Brand Creative worked closely with a lighting consultant specialising in the use of retail specific LEDs – proven to conserve energy.

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Theory opens layered flagship store on Regent Street

Retail Focus

Sybarite distilled the essence of Theory into a cohesive design language centred around timelessness, construction, balance, and openness. Their core values of timelessness, balance and openness informed our design and the process around it and were intrinsic to the canvas we created.

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New store for viral hit Humble Crumble celebrates the brand and process

Retail Focus

Care has been taken to ensure that the lighting is suitable for Instagram photography – essential for the client and company feed – and the surfaces have been selected to compliment the brand colours and create a beautiful backdrop for the products.

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Set the Scene

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Swooping shaped lighting fixtures are bringing a soft edge to retail and restaurant interiors this year, creating balance in relation to angular and digital features. Milky glass is becoming a mainstay, allowing light to glow through the glass. Louis Poulsen POST CATEGORIES MANUFACTURER: LS Lighting Corp.

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The thinking behind Lululemon’s Lunar New Year collab with Michelle Yeoh

Inside Retail

To complement the short film, Lululemon has launched a limited Lunar New Year capsule collection inspired by the unique shapes and curves formed by overlapping dragon scales. For example, Align was first designed to meet the needs of yoga enthusiasts who want to feel light and free in their practice.

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5 design-friendly smart thermostats combining form and function

Design Wanted

Instead of a screen, the second phase is minimal and features an LED display that only lights up when the user touches the controls. It includes a SmartSensor that you can place in the room that you’re in, and it will balance the temperature to keep that room comfortable. At the same time, this arguably limits its capabilities. .

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