Popular design is not the same as trend

Digital Age The advent of, promotes the rapid change of design,

From meeting needs to driving the future.

Used by a group of designers 4 pioneer theme laboratories ,

Explore and discover a broader new trend .

When people mention design, they are always in awe of the creative process subconsciously.Because it not only interprets the designer’s whimsical ideas, but also reflects the curiosity and construction of future life to a certain extent.miss you.

When inspiration and reality collide, many interesting works are created, and when these works are placed in ordinary life, whether they can fit the needs closely, show their functions and meet the needs of contemporary livingists for fashion at the same time. It seems particularly important.

At the 47th China (Guangzhou) International Furniture Fair this year, aCMF Trend LABThe exhibition attracted the attention of many people. This heavily-built theme exhibition covers many future trends and forward-looking innovation trends related to design.

Where is the vitality of Chinese craftsmanship?Can the ideal design of making the best use of everything be realized?What are the new possibilities for future life scenarios?Maybe we will find the answer in it.

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When objects of different purposes fill our space, through color, touch, shape, etc., people can produce different emotions at the first time. This wonderful feature has also attracted countless designers to be interested in it. Derive different ideas.

While inThe 47th China (Guangzhou) International Furniture Fair, The first theme exhibition focusing on CMF (color, material and surface treatment) design and trends, “CMF Trend LAB”, is divided into 4 major themed areas on the second floor of Area A of the Pazhou Canton Fair Complex in Guangzhou.

In the pure white space, the four themes of “virtual reconstruction laboratory”, “integrated technical materials laboratory”, “exquisite lazy laboratory”, and “no waste laboratory” are used to experimentally design in the digital age. Discuss the trend of innovation with people, environment, tradition and aesthetics.The extremely cool and futuristic exhibitions of works on site are still talked about by many people.

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#01″Virtual Refactoring Lab”

Pixels, fragments, sensing… In the virtual reconstruction laboratory, the chief curator Yang Mingjie uses elements full of technology to integrate the works, trying to explore and show the future of the digital age, people’s lifestyle, aesthetics and design will present Brand new features.

The theme of “virtual reconstruction”, in a concrete way, allows us to clearly see that we are living in two parallel worlds of real physical and virtual digital at the same time.

“Fragmentation” is more about the gradual formation of a new visual language and aesthetic characteristics in the digital age: fragmentation, granulation, void, molecular structure, this abstract visual structure and the “void” and “void” in Chinese humanistic aesthetics. The texture of “Ambiguous” has surprising similarities.

Xu Shanshui Art Installation, Sheep Shed, this installationIt can be combined into home systems such as coffee tables, lamps, coat racks, screen partitions, etc., or it can grow into a large-scale space installation with a display wall or a surrealistic “virtual landscape” courtyard.

“Parallel World” reveals the original intention of “virtual reconstruction”, expressing the characteristics of the era of digital civilization: the establishment of a complete simulation of the real physical world in the digital virtual world.

“Interactive sensing” uses the help and enhancement of chips and sensors to make contact and communication between people and things a pleasant and smooth interactive experience.

Forest of Light, Pompidou Center X Yang Mingjie

Through the interaction of the virtual forest and light effects, it triggers the thinking of the audience passing through it: Is the distance and relationship between us and nature friendly? Or is it opposite?

The “hard core planet”, on the one hand, shows the acceleration of human exploration of the unknown world in the digital age, on the other hand, it combines functional armor, mirror silver, technology visualization, craters, craters, and glacial gravel derived from aerospace equipment. The refinement and application of the texture of the planet’s surface will then show people’s infinite imagination of interstellar exploration, or it may also be a metaphor for the scene where robots replace humans in science fiction films.

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#02″Finance Technology Material Laboratory”

If virtual reconstruction expresses the sense of technology and the future, the “Fusion Handicraft Material Laboratory” curated by co-curator Mr. Zhang Lei and his team members Ms. Lu Jingyi and Ms. Hu Jingrong is through the deconstruction and reorganization of traditional materials. It provides the audience with a close experience of the multiple possibilities of the integration of Chinese traditional handicrafts and contemporary design, and builds a “dialogue” between the past and the future.

“Breakage and Rebirth” is a big necklace that reflects the designer’s experience of the post-epidemic era and people’s enthusiasm for the doomsday landscape imagination. The contrasting material touch conveys the healing experience of “destruction is never the end, but rebirth” .

Josefina Muñoz_The Soul of Black Sand

“Nude skin doctrine” reflects the current tolerance for the diversity of native skin. With the change of aesthetic trends, people begin to appreciate and pursue the elements and materials of natural bare skin.

For drying fish, in the age when there was no refrigerator, bamboo sticks and twigs were used to dry vegetables or fish in Jiangnan villages.The designer took this as inspiration to investigate and createMake, cutBamboo is the skeleton, the beating paper is the hanging fish, and the rice is turned into stone and soil. It is entrusted to the villages of Jiangnan in China from ancient times to the present.Of courseThe calm image of “now Nanshan”.

“Nest House” amplifies people’s desire to have a comfortable, relaxing, simple and safe home space. The use of natural materials and natural surface materials, such as rattan, straw, and soft woven blankets, enhances the living environment. Sense of ritual.

(Left) Gradient silver glaze clock. When the silver glaze is fired but not polished, it is white, with fine flashes, like snow under the moon, this texture is very elegant. When the light changes, the silver light will flow, and the silver glow is like the moon. (Right) Ceramics and dyed cloth, the works brought by Whisper Studio are first dyed with high-temperature mineral toner, and then the cloth is inserted into the grouting mold to give the texture and color of the porcelain gray cloth, and explore the new color on the surface of the object Presentation form.

“New tie-dyeing” reflects the current demand for manual temperature accompanying the sudden high-speed advancement of technology.While continuing the popular trend of tie-dye, it is no longer limited to inherent patterns and patterns, but more exciting tactile and visual experience:Needle traces, tie-dyed wrinkles and folded texture, embroidery texture, rich natural dyeing effect, weaving and shuttle of lines.

Plants and Nature·Little Scientists, Product Logistics Form X Child Care

Product logistics shape x Ugan concept

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#03「No Waste Laboratory」

A large part of the traces of human life is the production of garbage. Therefore, when the co-curator Xu Gang wanted to explore ways and solutions to “lighten the burden on the earth” and experiment with the sustainable development of human society, he paid more attention to the process from material acquisition to completion of the work, which consumes less energy and maximizes The economic benefits and the beauty of industry.

“Waste recycling” is very cool. Designers recycle and reuse man-made solid wastes such as ceramics, cement, plastics, coffee grounds, paper, sponges, etc. This will also become the development trend of waste-free cities.

“Synthetic natural”, synthetic and natural materials combined by injection molding, pouring, lamination, planting and raising meat, are not two opposite sides, but harmonious and harmonious. Just like chandeliers and chairs made of coffee grounds, natural ingredients coexist with life for a long time in another way.

Nordic simple lounge chair with coffee grounds, KAFFTEC coffee method

The inspiration for “re-examining nature” comes from the end of every public safety incident, which will usher in an upgrade of the concept of health. Reflections on consumerism and man-made objects, natural forces that have been neglected, such as cork, loofah, mycelium, and pineapple leaves, will change our lives in the future.

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#04「Exquisite Lazy Lab」

How to create a refined self for pleasure while taking into account practicality and cost-effectiveness? Ms. Huang Xiaojing, the co-curator, broke the “exquisite laziness” that prevailed among the new middle class and explained in detail.

“Senses decompression”, busyness and information overload make the senses dull prematurely. Human beings are more urgently in need of real five sense experience to heal. They can obtain a skin-like soft surface through Renolit decorative film blister, space foam foam, and loop fleece fabric, and get a real healing experience.

Materialwhy Leaf Sail Material

“Social currency”, using gradient-colored laminated glass, digital printing acrylic, projection lamps and other elements suitable for home photography, supplemented by the slightly romantic mood of holding a bubble cocktail, and the storage of childlike figures The most money-burning hobbies of the post-95 generation, such as fashion shoes, e-sports, photography, etc., reflect the new consumer groups’ desire to escape the pressure of life in the process of collecting and hands-on.

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At the same time, we observed the emotional interaction between people and pets. The “cute pet slave” magnified the function of people touching soft objects to soothe anxiety. At the same time, the cute pets also projected the exquisite self of the shit shoveler, and this popularity It also drives the design of materials such as felt and high-density corrugated paper.

A theme exhibition, 4 interesting but not unfamiliar “experimental” directions.For the first time, curators presented CMF in a systematic way, in various forms such as CMF samples, objects, cases, research reports, etc., from market data, technology, economics and current affairs, cultural aesthetics, lifestyle, consumer behavior, etc. , Insight and mining the logic behind the trend.

While we marveled at designers’ brains widening, we also had more thoughts about the metaphorical meaning of these works. What triggered their creativity, and for designers, what they think of the future trends in life How is it?IWe decided to have a good chat with them.

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Good design, spread innovative and meaningful life concepts and ways

Curator Yang Mingjie

YFounder of ANG DESIGN and Sheep Shed, Collector, Forbes China’s most influential industrial designer.

In his conception, the overall CMF trend LAB theme exhibition is designed based on the concept of virtual and real: “Humanity has entered an era of digital civilization. The discussion and display of the’virtual reconstruction laboratory’ is in such an era, How do we face the future; and how do we face the tradition? This is discussed and demonstrated by the “Integrated Technology Materials Laboratory”; in the face of increasingly serious social and environmental problems, we are paid attention to in the “No Waste Laboratory”; how to face it The anxious self? It is brought into play by the’exquisite lazy laboratory’.”

Every product in this curation expresses a meaning:Good design should be able to convey a positive social enlightenment meaning, spread and enlighten innovative and meaningful life concepts and methods.This is a constant trend in any era.

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Digital technology has more roles in future life scenarios

Co-curator Xu Gang

Mr. Xu Gang, local creative design director and founder.

When co-curator Xu Gang was working on “no-waste” curatorial creativity, he was also looking for opportunities to explore sustainable design and development with more people: “Sustainable development itself is the eternal proposition of mankind, but now it has evolved into one This trend shows that we have problems in many aspects, and we must reflect and correct mistakes.”

Mentioning that in the future life scenes he recognizes, life is diversified and multi-style. Digital technology has more responsibilities in future life scenes, not only the intelligentization of the system, but also the production and manufacturing of products in the life scene. And produce a new aesthetic.

However, in the new aesthetic, popular is not the same as trend. In the future, domestic home furnishing design will be popular, and there will be a side that reflects trends such as social value and responsibility, and concrete products can improve people’s aesthetic taste and spiritual enjoyment on the premise of satisfying functions.

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Regional handmade works with temperature will be appreciated more.

Co-curator Zhang Lei

Founder and chief designer of Pin Logistics Studio and founder of Rong Design Library.

Designers Zhang Lei, Lu Jingyi and other partners, after receiving the invitation of CMF Trend LAB, decided to make handicraft materials collide with fashion trends.

After studying the 2021-2022 trend reports made by various authoritative trend organizations, we finally identified four types of psychological needs in the post-epidemic era: “breakage and rebirth”-the hope of rebuilding life, “naked skin doctrine”-existence with nature The reconciliation of “Nest House”-a sense of security, “new tie-dye”-a desire for more fun in life.

“Future consumers must be broad-minded and have travel experience, and their homes must be full of stories and memories.” Therefore, handmade materials with a handmade temperature and obvious regional and cultural characteristics will be appreciated more. Possible.

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A designer is a fortuneteller who points out future trends and an executor who facilitates the implementation of trends.

Co-curator Huang Xiaojing

Famous design strategy and trend expert, strategic director and partner of YANG DESIGN, editor-in-chief of “China Design Trend Report”.

It’s worth mentioning that, as the only female designer in this curation, Huang XiaoJingAlways interested in CMF:”Studying the future is an addiction that cannot be cured.”

CMF is derived from the tradition of the German Bauhaus.Huang Xiao in the early yearsJingWhen I was studying in Germany, I was deeply impressed by the workshops of German design schools.The so-called workshop actually continues the tradition of the German Bauhaus. Each workshop has a senior craftsman to teach, so that students can familiarize themselves with woodworking, metalworking, plastics, ceramics, fabrics, photography and other processes at school, and deepen their understanding of products. Understanding of materials, crafts and production processes.

In the CMF Trend LAB theme exhibition of this Guangzhou Home Fair, she introduced the workshop format for the first time. “Strengthening practitioners’ attention to materials and craftsmanship” is necessary in her view, because the designer is not only the fortuneteller who points out the future trend, but also the executor who promotes the implementation of the trend.

CMF Trend LABSuch an amazing theme exhibition makes this year’s 47th China National Expo even more interesting.More than that, in focusing on “design leadership”, Guangzhou Home Fair will in-depth create a series of CIFF “setup” interaction activities, adding interesting and fun design activities, fashionable and novel design special exhibitions, high-end authoritative design awards, and many more Design celebrities and cutting-edge designers participate in it…The professional exhibition that makes ordinary people feel a sense of distance has become a trendy design journey, exploring a more fun life together inside and outside the circle.

When designers set their sights farther from the present to influence the next generation, they have actually thought about the longer term.The design at this time has completely gone beyond the design itself, and the changes it brings will inevitably make our lives more fun and comforting.

47thAlthough Guangzhou Home FairIt has been successfully concluded, but more excitement is about to happen. The home fair will fall on the land of more cities, linking up the national and global design forces, and will gather in Guangzhou next March.Let all design enthusiasts work together to create and share, and create infinitevalue.

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Preview of the 49th China (Guangzhou) International Furniture Fair

time:

Civil Furniture Fair 2022.03.18-21

Office Environment Exhibition 2022.03.28-31

Equipment Ingredients Exhibition 2022.03.28-31

address: Guangzhou Pazhou Canton Fair Exhibition Hall/Poly World Trade Expo Hall

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