Forward Thinking
If the robots really are taking over, then see this year’s Forward Thinking series as a manifesto for the creative resistance. Forward Thinking 2025 explores bringing humanity into all you do as a creative person: whether that means catering to your left and right brain tendencies as you revitalise your work process, or being unashamedly more emotional about the work you do. Our trend predictions for this year are more accurately a gathering of trend rejections, highlighting creatives that can’t help but swim upstream. We explore how motion design has become so integral to how we evoke personality through screens; and how you can tailor your social media life to align with, even inspire, your creative practice.
Forward Thinking 2024
Our latest annual Forward Thinking series looks ahead to the coming 12 months, exploring seven visual trends set to shape the year, examining the rise of analogue design techniques, surveying how graphic design for sport is transforming, and seeing how emerging technology might impact creative projects, plus offering a handy creative survival guide to get the year started right.
Supported by AKQA.
Forward Thinking 2023
Our third annual Forward Thinking series looked toward to a new era of design on the horizon, to uncover the trends and topics, worries and wonders that might be in store for the creative community in 2023.
Forward Thinking 2022
As we embarked on a new year full of potential and hope in 2022, the second edition of Forward Thinking looked at the global creative industry’s ambitions and predictions for the 12 months ahead.
Forward Thinking 2021
The first edition of Forward Thinking launched after the tumultuous year that was 2020, and looked to explore how creatives might face the fresh start of 2021 with (cautious) optimism, bolstered by its strengthened community.