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  • Milan Design Week: Products

    Milan Design Week: Products

    27th May 2009 | 0 comments | 2 people like this

    Premium today is less about extravagance and more about essentialism. It's about reduction: getting rid of the superfluousness in our lives. It's also about consuming responsibly, and being culturally aware and values conscious. The creative class especially wants to live in a world with fewer things, and more ideas, and as Philippe Starck said, "We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist...

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  • Milan Design Week: Experience Design

    Milan Design Week: Experience Design

    27th May 2009 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this

    Touch is the first sense developed in the womb, and sight the last. But it's primarily our eyes through which we interpret the world. So where were the sensual interfaces at Milan Design Week? We want to explore design through all our senses, not just at half capacity. Music is a mood shifter and scent a mood enhancer but rarely were these senses fully capitalised in any of the exhibitions....

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