The emerging themes for global gifting trends were on display at the annual Spring Fair. Featured as part of our six page gifting focus in MIX Magazine issue 55.

There's a darker side to our appetite for ceramics, we find out how one brand is transforming broken china into objects of beauty.

Our second post on the RCA work-in-progress shows highlights some of our favourites in colour and materials.

How are the next generation of designers influencing materials futures? We visited the the Work in Progress show at the Royal College of Art to see first hand. 

Colour Hive will again be curating a new materials installation at Surface Design Show. With a theme of 'One of a Kind' we took our SS 2020 trend Kinship as the inspiration.