Design trends

Barcelona Design Week 2025 celebrates 20th edition with ‘Creative Resilience’

This year’s theme, Creative Resilience, explores the duality of structure and dream, underscoring design’s ability to build a sustainable future while imagining new possibilities. Exhibitions, talks and installations will showcase how design can respond with vision, creativity and strength to global challenges.

Five things defining the design moment: September 2025

This edition for September 2025 covers digital arts & crafts, luxury’s embrace of indoor-outdoor design, an industry omen from New York Fashion Week, two opposing color trends and how Kyoto university’s newest quantum discovery will impact design and home furnishings in the next five years.

Summer wellness trends — what’s in, what’s out?

Summer 2025 marks a wellness reset as consumers move beyond tech gimmicks and back to timeless, evidence-based rituals. From hydrotherapy and wild swimming to bio-harmonization and performance-driven recovery, TLEE Spas + Wellness spotlights the trends redefining luxury wellness—and what’s fading from the spotlight.

Wonder walls

From textural, nature-inspired tiles to reimagined grass cloth and chinoiserie, producers are offering new treatments that will enliven any wall.

Five things defining the design moment: May 2025

At the end of each month, DNN Editor in Chief Courtney Porter curates a list of five standout items, including design projects, product launches and noteworthy events, that deserve your attention. Together they offer a snapshot of where the design industry stands, capturing emerging trends, influential movements and key developments. Think of it as your monthly briefing on what’s shaping the creative landscape.

What is special in design?

One of the jobs designers are tasked with is finding or even creating that special item that a client wants to pass down to the next generation.  If a designer does not include “special” in their work, they will not have a career in design.

European lighting trend report

If Euroluce offered a forecast, it was that light—at least in the European context—is being asked to do more: to feel more, to say more, to matter more.

ANDMORE® at High Point Market Announces Market Snapshot Finalists for Spring Market

People’s Choice Voting opens April 18-25

ANDMORE® Partners with Future Snoops to Unveil Home Furnishings Trend Edit  

ANDMORE announces its second consecutive trend partnership with Future Snoops (formerly known as Fashion Snoops) at the Spring 2025 edition of High Point Market. This collaboration will bring innovative, consumer-focused autumn/winter trend insights to the forefront complete with a seminar and trend gallery at the April 26-30, 2025, buying event.   

Cosentino launches first 2025-2026 Global Trend Report – Shaping Tomorrow: Future Design & Architecture 

The surfacing leader identifies five trends that will define the coming years and shares insights and inspiration from some of the world’s top designers and architects pushing the industry forward