Designers look backwards to move forward

Design forecasters are predicting a focus on history and a reconnection with nature as key trends in 2015.
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Life has got too complicated. In 2015, the world will turn primal, looking for a brutal, near primitive, beauty in things. Designers are predicting a quest to simplify our lives. Biophillia, the human desire to reconnect with the natural world, will be a prominent trend, as we look for escape from an increasingly technological world. And to move forward into the future, we’ll look back into the past, reinterpreting historical influences in a new-old, old-new look.

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Miranda Tay
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Miranda Tay is Deputy Editor of ArtsHub.com.au