Organic shapes and a motif from nature-right on target!

Branches of the Sea

Multiple Cities — November 2005 — The Trendease Team has scoured markets across the globe to bring you this gallery of branches from the sea. With the gravitation towards things that are familiar and comfortable it is no wonder that nature is playing a big role in many of the trends we are observing on the marketplace. The ‘word on the street’ is that influences from the large bodies of water surrounding us are influencing product design and this gallery is here to solidify that statement.

"Praise"

New Talent: Modernized Meaning

Surrey — October 2005 — This issue’s highlighted new talent found inspiration in his roots and has created functional art out of heart, soul, and bone china. This collection has transformed ancient scripts into modern-day designer tableware. It is only appropriate to spotlight his achievement this October during Ramadan, a time of worship and contemplation, fasting during the daylight hours and eating small meals in the evening, visiting with friends and family, while strengthening community ties.

Funnel, design by Boje Estermann

Design Plus 2005

Frankfurt — March 2005 — The Design Plus award was created to celebrate good, innovative and trend-setting design. Its goal is to create awareness that design simply for the sake of design should not be an aim, and to promote creators who are striving towards quality, excellence and functionality combined with aesthetics and exemplifying the values and needs of the time.

The UK Spotlight

London — May 2004 — A spotlight on the British European Design Group, a forward thinking organization that has been instrumental in promoting some of the UK’s hottest designers. We contacted thirteen of them to ask them what drives them to design and where they find their sources of inspiration.

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