Dip-Dyed Design Craze
There is no denying this seasons' obsession with dip dying.  
The options for decorating the home are endless.

The Transcendent Ombre
Ombré has been a popular trend in fashion and design for quite some time and it’s being brought back again.

Ombré offers a great way to jazz up any outfit or add some extra interest to any interior.
One thing to point out is it’s definitely a trend and not a timeless style, either it’s in style or out of style, with no in between.

Mismatched Patterns
Mismatched home decor is all the rage these days - from mismatched dishware, printed tops and pants, to skirts, dresses and tights to dining chairs.

Glass / Blown Glass
Used from everything from Lamps, Pendants, Terrariums, and Cloches, blown glass is  making its way back in to modern home accents. 

Metal
Matt Metals
Matt Stainless Steel
Hot- Rolled Steel : metal with an industrial look. There is a unique natural design created on the steal by the cooling process.

Paper Mache
High Design meets Paper Mache

Poly
(methyl methacrylate) A.K.A. Acrylic, Lucite, Perspex.
 Every designer will tell you: Just one piece of acrylic furniture will shake up any room in any style.  It’s a one-piece makeover.

Textile: Exotic Handcrafted
From aguayos to ikats to suzanis, ‘exotic’ handcrafted textiles are enjoying considerable popularity in Western
interiors, and Moroccan Wedding Blankets are no exception. The creamy, sequined blankets, or handira, are a
window onto traditional Berber

Metapaper brings WiFi-trapping
wallpaper to the masses
by Jana Branch | 23 May 2012
What’s happening
Back in aught-four, Iconoculture reported on WiFi-trapping wallpaper. The problem? At nearly $800 a foot, ordinary Moes and Marys could forget it. Now techorating gets a boost with Métapapier, or Metapaper, an affordable signal-blocking design (Connexion-France.com, 8 May 2012).
Developed at France’s Grenoble Institut Polytechnique, the wallpaper prototype uses silver crystals in a snowflake pattern to do the hard work of keeping WiFi-signal-stealing intruders out while letting radio and cellphone
signals in. And it doesn’t look bad either.


Metapaper will be available in 2013 from Finnish wallpaper company Ahlstrom, with the cost projected to be similar to any conventional, mid-range wallpaper.  But what about WiFi signal security on windows?  The researchers are currently working on a transparent version, too.

What this means to business
Data privacy continues to gain ground in consumers’ list of concerns.  Marriages of functionality and pleasing design continue to hook a generation that holds the sleek Apple aesthetic near and dear. Sure, an encrypted network with a strong password could offer a similar level of security, but WiFi-trapping wallpaper provides a permanent solution that
doesn’t require homeowners to remember and share passwords the next time friends come visiting with laptops or iPads in tow. Innovation opportunity exists anywhere that a propriced  product can be reinvented for ordinary consumer
budgets.