High Point Market: Trend Watch

For the third consecutive year Homebuildlife is the High Point Market official trend sponsor. Every year, exhibitors are encouraged to submit the products that they best feel represent our future seasonal macro trends through a program called Trend Watch. The focus of the project is to demonstrate how the macro trends can be interpreted into commercial products and showcase some of the pieces available throughout the market.

Diluted colour by Alissa + Nienke

Photo by Ellen Mandemakers

Dutch designers Alissa + Nienke explore the boundaries of the porcelain material in an experimental collection of handmade cups and bowls. 

Best of Italian design: ADI Design Index 2013

Pachamama - Master’s degree dissertation in Ecodesign by Mauricio Carvajal, Tatiana Martínez and Andrés Naranjo

The products selected for this year's ADI Design Index - which selects the best of Italian design to be put into production each year - are currently on show in the exhibition Design|Opera at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, which runs until November 3.

Landscaped at Sarah Myerscough Gallery

Refinery by Jenny Pockley

London gallery Sarah Myerscough is currently showing an exhibition of contemporary art that focuses on landscapes. Running until 7 September, Landscaped includes works by artists Jenny Pockley, Andrew Mackenzie and Sachiyo Nishimura.

FlowerTrap by Utopia and Utility

FlowerTrap by Utopia and Utility is a lens-like vessel that heightens the beauty of the blooms placed inside it. Each vase is unique and combines blown glass with a birch bark-weaved base.