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We are used to seeing 3D visualizations much more since the confinement forced designers to start building setups, prototypes, and public projects in a contactless moment. Anything related to handicraft work such as 3D modeling …
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Not Your Typical Newsletter: This Is The New Wednesday Journal !
After a few years of sending newsletters, we felt it was time for some change. The until now weekly newsletter becomes the Wednesday Journal, and after the first publication, we couldn't be happier with your reactions and comments. This is what you get upon subscrib …
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Three Trend Signals On The Outdoor Design Horizon
Those brands who have shared the experience say that retailers of furniture and home accessories saw unexpected results in the early days of the pandemic since people identified those corners and situations that needed to be improved while spending much time inside. …
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5 Areas That Need To Rethink Social Distancing Design
Movements usually boil slowly until they come to the surface, grow, and eventually become a trend spread in various disciplines. Some convert into a mainstream phenomenon, others stay niche, and disappear after a while. We did not see a movement or trend for social dist …
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The Workbook That Scans If Your Business Is Trend-Proof
Taking into consideration the massive download of the workbook we've experienced so far, I thought it could be worth it sharing the idea on a single post. During the lockdown, I started a video series on IGTV called How To Navigate Trends In Uncertain Times. During thr …
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CREATIVE WASTE, SUSTAINABLE & MINDFUL DESIGN
3D modeling shaping yoga pods made of rattan
We are used to seeing 3D visualizations much more since the confinement forced designers to start building setups, prototypes, and public projects in a contactless moment. Anything related to handicraft work such as 3D modeling shaping yoga pods made of hardwood, rattan …
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Playful modular homes nestled within nature by Precht
The first thing that might come to your mind is a submarine periscope, or is it a water pipe? The idea of Bert is a family of playful modular homes nestled within nature that invite people to experience architecture and nature through the eyes of children. …
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Villa Ortizet – Bringing Rocky Outdoors In
The past months have shown an unusual creative boost of 3D projects within the interior design scene, and the curve is the star of all. I bought a print of Charlotte Taylor's work a couple of years and haven't stopped finding her work on the net ever since. This is o …
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Not Your Typical Newsletter: This Is The New Wednesday Journal !
After a few years of sending newsletters, we felt it was time for some change. The until now weekly newsletter becomes the Wednesday Journal, and after the first publication, we couldn't be happier with your reactions and comments. This is what you get upon subscrib …
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Can a fashion brand provide a home staging that helps to identify?
Within a world of interdisciplinary collaborations, can a fashion luxury brand provide a home staging that helps to identify (and sell)? We'd like to introduce you today to 145 distinctive canalside apartments and nine penthouses, built by Wilkinson Eyre within a refurb …
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Challenging The Conventional: Not Your Typical Coworking
Cabinette is not defined by its creators as a simple co-working or gray office space. The design idea spins around challenging the conventional and offering a place of stories where the first concepts may be envisioned a tad wilder, and creativity has no boundaries. Rec …
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COLOR INSPIRATION
Color Inspiration No.28: Classic Blue, Pumpkin, Corn, Peach, and Plum (Free Ebook)
Color Inspiration N°28 has a focus on Classic Blue, Pumpkin, Corn, Pink Peach, and Brown Plum. The color Blue has been all over the news after Pantone nominated it the color of 2020. It has indeed become an inspiration for many to apply in the month to follow. S …
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Color Inspiration No.27: Iris, Coffee, Satin, Biscotti, and Ginger (Free Ebook)
Color Inspiration No.27 has all the right hues for the cold winter days: Iris, Coffee, Satin, Biscotti, and Ginger. Color Inspiration No.27 has a calming mix, echoes the first lazy days of this season, during which the only thing we need is a comfy and warm sweater a …
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Color Inspiration No.26: Black, Sienna, Turmeric, Prussian Blue, and Camel
Before we dive into our Color Inspiration No.26, let me repeat what we said in our newsletter already: THANK YOU to everybody who took part in our survey last week and let us know what product you'd like us to offer and the content you would love to read on Eclectic T …
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Raising the curtain for must-know talents
Colorful Face Mask Knitting Experiments
With no intention of belittling difficulties, the creativity of face masks that has been sprung the past weeks just for the fun of it is worth writing a book. Experienced and professional knitter @yrurari has been experimenting with some sweater ideas to wear on a face …
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Decompressing Emotions with Qing Deng’s Aspirator
Qing Deng took part in the Pure Talent Contest 2020 at the imm Cologne program where young rising product designers would exhibit each year their final works. Aspirator fills a puff with air, allowing to sit down when shouting into a sort of vacuum cleaner. The artist …
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A set of headphones grown from bio-materials
In the endeavor of reducing the use of materials that are not environmentally friendly, Finnish studio Aivan in collaboration with scientists from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Aalto University created a set of headphones grown from bio-materials. //The technology and the headphones The headphones were named Korvaa. In the Finnish language, it has an anatomical meaning" Korva", "ear." While "Korvaa" is a verb, …
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Unmanned coffee shop concept by Nendo
In this unmanned coffee shop, designed by Japanese studio nendo and located in the observation deck of Roppongi Hills, customers are asked to prepare the coffee themselves. Five kinds of roasted beans await in a vending machine that looks and acts like a capsule toy. The grinding process is automated (pic 4), and all you have to do is start …
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This is not a time where personalization of taste and style are taken into account, but personalization of NEEDS has become the merging driver. The relevance is different, and brands might consider that change. >> More in video I
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More than three billion people live in countries whose borders are totally closed to nonresidents. That means the prospect of border restrictions leads to a higher preference for local over global products and services. We get a taste now on how that could work; we’re back to LOCALISM.>> More in video II
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THE THREE-STEP PROGRAM Three is a magical number. Throughout the years working in larger corporations or having set up my own company in recent years, I've used a three-step program very often, it kind of works for me. Here go the thre …
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