Dissection#5 The Value of Things

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This is a very short dissection, more like an opinion piece, but sustained by a very simple idea I have been building in the last couple of years, about the misuse of Trends in Creative Industries. Who follows my work … Continue reading 

Trend#1

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‘Absolute Individualism’ is a Trend about mankind becoming a global village that ignores all boundaries, where individual difference is the common point of connection between civilians. It is about craving for difference and a place in the sun within a huge … Continue reading 

Trend#5

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‘Fashion + Architecture’ is a Trend about merging several layers of dwelling that involve each human being like overlapped epidermis, such as clothes, transportation, apartments, community shelters… imagination can make us rethink boundaries and human scale up to buildings and sky-scratchers. 9 billions will make … Continue reading 

Evidence#18 Orthopaedia Tailoring

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Egle Cekanaviciute, a young fashion designer from Lithuania, came up with the idea that Orthopaedia and Tailoring are both natural or artificial ways of Bodymoulding, just like plastic surgery. So she developed this project that merges the function of both fields of … Continue reading 

Evidence#17 Hövding

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The Invisible Bicycle Helmet – or in its original name, Hövding – was born in 2005 on a joint master thesis in industrial design at the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University in Sweden by the hands of the designers Anna and Terese. Hövding is … Continue reading 

Driver#1 Population growth

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Population growth World population is growing at an alarming rate. We have just reached 7 billion and many opinions say that we are going to be 9 billion around 2050 (from 9 to 10 billion in the worst case scenario, … Continue reading 

Evidence#13 Photovoltaics enables super-powered clothing

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The Photovoltaic cell exists since 1883, but now thin film cells have been recently improved to flexible and less bulky sunlight harvesting tools when applied to organic polymers. This means we now have solar panels that actually are really close … Continue reading 

Trend#19 Sane Recession

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Sane Recession – Science of the Time «Recession time is definitely never a pleasure or a feast. Don’t congratulate a father of three when he lost his job. Having said that, there is a healthy side to recession as well. … Continue reading