Preview of the Craftscurator Trend Guide on Maker Trends, Materials and Techniques for 2015 and beyond. Insights, inspiration and information for professionals in the home decoration and home textiles industry. Early signs of developments in product design, told and visualized in Maker Stories. Craftscurator has travelled the globe to find out what designers, scientists, makers and inventors are working on. 20 different Maker Stroies are shared, from manufacturing with bacteria to rethinking basket weaving to 3D printing that includes imperfections. Besides maker Stories, information on Material, Techniques, Pattern and Colour is given. All information is categorized by Style Group, Craftscurator's own method to identify consumer preferences.

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PreviewMaker Trends, Materials, Techniques
home decoration and
handmade design
2015and beyond Spray vase
by Linia Patsiou
Stone cycling
by Tom van Soest
Pendulum pattern
by David Derksen

2. Spirograph pattern ceramics
by David Derksen
3D printed bees wax structure
by Joris van Tubergen and Olivier van Herpt
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Inventive
Making by
Machine
Designers are exploring techniques;
whether it is done by hand or by machine.
Old machines from the industrial area are
repaired and put to use in new production
processes. New manufacturing tech-
niques such as 3D printing and robotics
are explored.
> 3D printing
> robot manufacturing
> precision as well as imperfection
> unexpected effects
While modern manufacturing techniques
are being used, makers are increas-
ingly looking for ways to create unique
products with unexpected effects. They
are programming machines or creating
devices to allow imperfection in a highly
controlled manufacturing process.
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Wallpaper
Bethan Gray
David Derksen
Joris van Tubergen
Olivier van Herpt
Robotic marble manufacturing process
by Bethan Gray Wallpaper Handmade Aug 2013
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Pendulum pattern
by David Derksen
Marble tabletop items
by Bethan Gray
Bees wax 3D printed
by Tubergen & v.Herpt

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Inventive
Colour Mood
The colour palette for Inventive consists
of bright colours: yellow, raspberry pink,
emerald green and kobalt blue. How-
ever, much of the colour effect is defined
by material and techniques. Yellow is
made transparent in glass, pink becomes
powdery by applying it in resin material,
emerald green is used in a spray-painted
gradient effect on ceramics.
> bright colours
> colours defined by material use
> gradients, transparancy, saturation
Therefore, the application of colour is just
as important as the tone itself. New is the
use of a burgundy colour in combination
with the brights. And besides a lush red
and an orange with a coral hint, a basic
brick colour is used.
See Craftscurator Cahier Colour Trends
Hardware 2015 or Craftscurator Cahier
Colour Trends Textiles 2015 for exact
Pantone coded colours. Each Cahier
includes 3 colourcards of 10 colours.
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> Style Groups
> Colour
Gradient effects
by Droog Design
Marble patchwork
by Patricia Urquiola
Colour blocking
by India Mahdavi
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> Design Directions
> Colour Mood
Vegetable dyed textiles
by Raw Color

4. Oyster paper
by Luisa Robinson
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Sensitive
Materializing
Purity
Designers are using materials in the
purest form possible; natural wool, un-
bleached paper and tan coloured leather.
They are using techniques to bring ot the
best in the raw materials. Weaving, fold-
ing and tufting.
> paper, bamboo, rattan
> leather and fish skin
> texture
> touch
Sustainable raw materials are being used,
and alternatives for materials that are
damaging the environment, such as cot-
ton and leather.
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Roosmarijn Pallandt
Lanzavecchia & Wai
Formafantasma
Pinwu
Luisa Robinson
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> Sensitive
Bamboo paper
by Pinwu
Raw paper edges
by Pinwu
Map rugs
by Roosmarijn Pallandt
Rattan room divider
Lanzavecchia & Wai
Craftica, using left over leather and fish skin
by Formafantasma for Fendi
Fish skin stool
by Formafantasma

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Sensitive
Colour Mood
The colour mood of Sensitive consists
of many soft and pastel colours, such as
pale yellow, powdery pink and very light
celadon green. But the palette is by no
means sugary: these are pastel versions
of natural colours. As a contrast, spicy
colours such as burnt orange and ocre
yellow are added.
> soft and powdery pastels
> spicy orages and yellows
> gray and denim blue as a base
Gray remains to be an important colour,
for many years already. The concrete gray
we use this year combines beautifully
with the many orangy brown and yellow
tones, as well as the pastels.
See Craftscurator Cahier Colour Trends
Hardware 2015 or Craftscurator Cahier
Colour Trends Textiles 2015 for exact
Pantone coded colours. Each Cahier
includes 3 colourcards of 10 colours.
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> Colour
Brushed cotton blankets
by Lenneke Langenhuisen
Raw cotton fibre
by Lenneke Langenhuijsen
Celadon colour ceramics
by Ineke van der Werff
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> Design Directions
> Colour Mood
Italian marble
by Patricia Urquiola for Budri

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Expressive
Re-purposing
Plastics
Designers and makers are exploring new
ways to recycle material, to manufacture
in different ways. But above all, they are
finding new ways to apply material to
products. A perfectly plain and smooth
material might not be the ultimate goal
anymore. Layers and particles in material
offer a more exciting look.
> recycled plastics
> layered and compressed particles
> new manufacturing processes
> no plain and solid surfaces
You can find information on a previous life
of the materials in the plastics; just like
geologists studying sedimentation and
ground and rock formation.
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Dave Hakkens
Helda Hellstrom
Dirk van der Kooij
Mischa Kahn
Diederik Schneemann
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> Expressive
Household plastics
by Misha Kahn
Compressed recycled fridge plastics
by Dirk van der Kooij
Recycled plastic vase
by Dave Hakkens
Plastic particles
by Dave Hakkens
Plastic transformation plant
by Dave Hakkens
Particles pattern
by Dave Hakkens
Sedimentation series
by Hilda Hellstrom
Recycled flip-flops
Diederik Schneemann
Recycled coiled plastic
by Dave Hakkens

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Expressive
Colour Mood
The palette for the expressive style group
consists of very bold and bright colours.
A kobalt blue and a bright yellow, as well
as a shocking pink and a bright emerald
green. But what makes this mood new is
the use of black and whites in combina-
tion with all the shiny brights.
> bright and bold
> combined with black and white
> return of purple
Purple is back, and with a vengeance.
This eye popping purple is a great way to
energize a colour range, but for more ac-
cessible products there is still lots of reds
and blues to work with.
See Craftscurator Cahier Colour Trends
Hardware 2015 or Craftscurator Cahier
Colour Trends Textiles 2015 for exact
Pantone coded colours. Each Cahier
includes 3 colourcards of 10 colours.
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> Colour
Pixelized imagery
by Statue Design Studio
Colour spray interior
as seen in Frame Magazine sept-oct 2013
XL spray effect
as seen in Frame Magazine sept-oct 2013
Colour changing tiles
by Moving Colour
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> Colour Mood

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Spray vase
by Linia Patsiou
Stone cycling
by Tom van Soest
Pendulum pattern
by David Derksen

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Cushion cover
by Sebastian Wrong for Hay
Stacking stool
by Mike Meiré
Plate
by Marimekko

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