Forecasts

Design Directions 2026 Part Two: TINY & STITCH | Colour Now: 2025 STILL LIFE & HACK | Focus on Emerging Talent.

Longevity is reshaping design, influencing materials, surfaces and aesthetics. The CMF Directions for the 2026/27 design direction FOREVER.

Escapism, nostalgia and cartoon aesthetics, where hyperreal materials and playful exaggeration define the CMF directions for the 2026/27 design direction SELF.

Serendipity, fragmented forms and material experimentation. The CMF directions for the 2025/26 design direction CHANCE.

Engineered luxury, precision and discretion. The CMF directions for the 2025/26 design direction PAY.

Regional perspectives on LAND, SOUL, STILL LIFE and HACK, shaped by craft, material innovation and technology.

Design Directions 2026 Part One: SIN & MOON | Colour Now: 2025 LAND & SOUL | Focus on Food & Kitchens.

Diverse possibilities from creativity to fakery emerge from the rapid developments in AI. Social and market signals for the 2025 design direction HACK.

Finding value in the physical and everyday is a response to overconsumption and the frenzied speed of life. Social and market signals for the 2025 design direction STILL LIFE.