TrendsBy designers for designers

Alex Bradley, Plans head of trends, recently gave a trends presentation at the TAID conference in Taiwan. We wonder if you would be interested in him sharing it with your team?

The following slides give a taste of the presentation.

Please contact Alex at alex@plan.bz if youre interested.

The future is part of every designers job description

Marc Newson

By designers. For Designers.

Everyone at Plan has a design background, so all our trends are researched and analysed by designers. We understand what these trends mean for design and designers.

Predict

You cannot predict the future

Perspective

Develop a point of view on the future

What we track

Social Economic Technological Lifestyle Design

Colour Gradients

Colour Gradients

Colour Gradients

Fluro Palette

Fluro Palette

Fluro Palette

Grey Palette

Title 1 line (2 lines if no subtitle)Tinted Transparency

Tinted Transparency

Digital Micro Textures

Digital Micro Textures

Digital Micro Textures

Influ

ence

Time

Long term

1920s Minimalism

2000s Minimalism

Warm Minimalism

Warm Minimalism

Seamless constructions

Seamless constructions

Seamless constructions

Title 1 line (2 lines if no subtitle)Contrasting Composition

Contrasting Composition

Contrasting Composition

Contrasting Composition

Plastic honesty

The iPhone 5C is beautifully and unapologetically plastic. Jonathan Ive

Plastic honesty

Plastic honesty

Raw Materials

Raw Materials

Title 1 line (2 lines if no subtitle)Peaceful Interiors

Peaceful Interiors

Peaceful Interiors

Purified Environments

Purified Environments

Purified Environments

Edited Life

Editing is the skill of this century: editing space, media consumption and friends.

Graham Hill

Off-site Construction

Distributed Production

Distributed Production

Title 1 line (2 lines if no subtitle)Lightscaping

Lightscaping

Title 1 line (2 lines if no subtitle)Embedded Sensors

Embedded Sensors

Estimote beaconsSensors embedded into retail environments aim to enrich the customer experience in-store, providing navigation proximity marketing and contactless payments.

Embedded Sensors

Smart Systems

Fords collision warning systemSenses and communicates an impending impact with a heads up display and automatically makes the break if you are about to crash

Smart Systems

Smart Systems

Ambient Interaction

Title 1 line (2 lines if no subtitle)Ambient Interaction

Ambient Interaction

Title 1 line (2 lines if no subtitle)Retail Revolution

Reactive Facades

Reactive Facades

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Thank you.Let us know if you would like to see the full presentation alex@plan.bz

Trends by designers for designers