the Trend Book

Additionally, Heimtextil will be hosting its Young Creation Award, which will acknowledge the most creative interpretation of its brief – Upcycling. Students from Aachen University of Applied Sciences and Coburg University, Germany, were tasked with creating striking feature pieces for interiors using recycled materials. The results will be on show for all to view at a special campus area, which will offer interior design, architecture and textile design professionals another source of inspiration. ekonglong sofa supplier

Identifying up-and-coming trends is one of the most important elements of Heimtextil, which produces an annual trends book in collaboration with design professionals across the world. The Trend Book is readily available to purchase at the event or online, and is relatively independent – making it an essential tool for professionals.

This year, the Trend Book has been conceived with the input from French company 2G2L Fashion Design and Consulting, Japanese designer Dan Project, the US-based Global Color Research, Orbitato studio in Brazil, as well as Germany’s stilburo bora.herke.palmisano, and the Stijlinstituut Amsterdam, which oversaw the project.

The multidisciplinary, global design panel has identified four main trends for 2013/14 – The Historian, The Eccentric, The Inventor and The Geologist. As the names suggest, each trend has been given a personality to reflect the multifaceted content of each individual trend.