All posts tagged future

Graduate Design: Q&A with Katharina Eisenkoeck, One Year On Exhibitor

Katharina Eisenkoeck

Katharina Eisenkoeck

Words by MPDClick’s partners at ARTS THREAD.

ARTS THREAD’s second Q&A with designers from this year’s New Designers One Year On exhibition is with designer-maker Katharina Eisenkoeck. Read on to find out about the inspiration behind her concrete and leather lighting which she will be displaying at the show:

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S/S 13 Trends: Urban Sunset Shades

 Philippe-Albert Lefebvre | Vince | Tung Walsh | Keith Sonnier

Words edited by MPDClick’s Trend Journal Editor.

Sherbet sunsets and cool shades of concrete create an urban palette for this spring/summer 13. This is a great colour combination in line with MPDClick’s ‘New Renaissance’ trend for the season which cites the Mediterranean as a key reference point. Subscribers can click here to view our full womenswear forecast for s/s 13. If you don’t subscribe to MPDClick, take a FREE trial here.

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New Designers13: Q&A With Grace Hamilton, One Year On Exhibitor

Words by MPDClick’s partners at ARTS THREAD.

MPDClick’s partners over at graduate portfolio site ARTS THREAD start a new series of Q&As with designers and makers who will be exhibiting at New Designers One Year On this summer. We speak to Grace Hamilton who will be exhibiting her work during Part 1 of New Designers 2013 from the 26 – 29 June.

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Economy: 10 Reasons To Invest Into Vietnam

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Words by MPDClick’s Future Trends Researcher.

With an estimated population of 600 million and $2.5 trillion in combined GDP, the Southeast Asian region is set to join the ranks of China and India as a major economic growth force. In an ongoing business series entitled ‘Business: Southeast Asia Series’, MPDClick highlights the importance of the Southeast Asian region as an emerging market, focusing on the economies and cultural influence of Indonesia, Singapore , Thailand, Vietnam and Sri Lanka (a country on the fringes of Southeast Asia).

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Economy: 10 Reasons To Invest Into Sri Lanka

Words by MPDClick’s Future Trends Researcher.

With an estimated population of 600 million and $2.5 trillion in combined GDP, the Southeast Asian region is set to join the ranks of China and India as a major economic growth force. In an ongoing business series entitled ‘Business: Southeast Asia Series’, MPDClick highlights the importance of the Southeast Asian region as an emerging market, focusing on the economies and cultural influence of Indonesia,  Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore. Second up is Sri Lanka, a country on the fringes of Southeast Asia, which has been tipped as one of five nations with the potential for future growth (SLIMMA).

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Exhibition: Foodmade

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Padiglione Italia

Words by MPDClick’s Future Trend Researcher.

As part of the upcoming 2013 edition of Ventura Lambrate, PADIGLIONEITALIA (the Italian Pavilion) has invited seventeen designers to consider food not just as a raw material, but also as a key element of the creative and productive process. The collective exhibition entitled FOODMADE, features designers and design studios including Whomade + Michela Milani, Leonardo Talarico, Antonio Aricò, Cristina Celestino, CTRLZAK, Gio Tirotto and Emanuele Magini.

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Trade Fair: CIFF Future Fabrics

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Words edited by MPDClick’s Future Trend Researcher.

CIFF Future Fabrics is set to be the leading sustainable fabrics fair in Europe. In partnership with the London-based no-profit organisation The Sustainable Angle UK, the all-new trade fair and conference shines the spotlight on sustainable materials for the fashion and furniture industries.

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Economy: 10 reasons to invest into Indonesia

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Words by Mpdclick’s Future Trends Researcher.

With an estimated population of 600 million and $2.5 trillion in combined GDP, the Southeast Asian region is set to join the ranks of China and India as a major economic growth force. In an ongoing business series entitled ‘Business: Southeast Asia Series’, MPDClick highlights the importance of the Southeast Asian region as an emerging market, focusing on the economies and cultural influence of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore. First up is Indonesia, which has featured as an emerging market in a number of economists’ forecasts, namely the N-11, MAVINS, SLIMMA, Next 4 Billion, CIVETS and TIMBI.

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Fashion: Sri Lankan Fashion Placing Emphasis on Sustainability

Words by our partners at ARTS THREAD.

Fashion label Khogy from Colombo, Sri Lanka displayed their new fish-skin collection at the International Fashion Showcase during London Fashion Week. MPDClick predict that Sri Lanka, along with other key South East Asian counties, is set to emerge as a frontier market in the next few years. Since the civil war ended in 2009, the country has emerged as a reform-minded, economically driven leader in South Asia.

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The Future Fashion Series

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Words edited by MPDClick’s Future Trends Researcher.

Source Intelligence, the leading source of sustainable fashion business intelligence, has just announced a series of ‘in conversation with….’ videos, as part of ‘Future Fashion’. Through the insightful video series, Future Fashion (the yearlong series of events, films and podcasts dedicated to the politics of dressing in an increasingly throw away world), aims to open up space for discussion around the future of ‘how we dress’ from consumer behaviour to intelligent design.

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