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Craft, folk storytelling and agricultural traditions. The CMF directions for the 2024/25 design direction GRAIN.

Key themes, materials and colours from Milan Design Week 2023

Could designers play a role in finding solutions to the food waste crisis?

Whether it was sustainability, references to nature or even a little healthy hit of maximalism, a sheer diversity of surface choices was the defining feature of this year’s Surface Design Show.

As our world becomes increasingly digitised and complex, architects, interior designers and artisans are retreating from this overload, adopting a stone-age simplicity by turning their attention to the ultimate analogue material, stone.

As non-renewable resources become ever more depleted, the irrevocable, environmental and ethical damage synthetic dyes are causing is leading designers to rethink the future of dyeing by recalibrating their relationship with nature.

Liquid qualities, buoyant materials and submerged aesthetics. The CMF directions for the 2024 design direction SUBMERGE.

Craft, digital tracking and local materials. The CMF directions for the 2024 design direction PROVENANCE.

Satire, distortion and unsettling theatricality. The CMF directions for the 2024 design direction HELTER-SKELTER.